Daily Tips for Families

Today's Tip for Families

12-31-2021

Get Your Child Organized for 2022

New Year's Eve is a great time to make plans for the coming year. Here are some things you can do to help your child be better organized in 2022:

Encourage sorting. Offer your child plenty of opportunities to participate in activities that involve sorting or classifying, such as starting a collection, sorting laundry or playing card games.
Spend time on time. Watching how time progresses and noticing the time it takes to do things are important steps in time management. Talk to your child about how long it takes to complete certain tasks. Show him how to break longer activities into steps that take certain lengths of time.
Use the refrigerator. Post schedules, to-do lists and your child’s own calendar where he can keep track of assignments, activities and special events.
Give your child bins, baskets and boxes. Rather than a big toy box or a closet jammed with stuff, get some inexpensive colorful containers and see-through plastic tubs. Ask your child to help determine what goes in each container—and keep it there. He can even help make labels for them.
Find a place for everything. Designate areas for keeping certain things and make your child aware of them. Also create areas for studying, for reading and even for certain types of play, such as making art or playing house. Keep toys for those activities in those areas.
Develop routines. Schoolwork at a certain time, along with baths and meals, reading and even games, helps your child learn how to organize time. Be consistent, because that is the key ingredient in organization.
Empower your child. He won’t learn how to organize unless you provide opportunities for him to decide how something should take shape. Give him control over organizing his room or school binder.
Do a weekly clean-up. Maybe his room can stay a little messy for a few days, but on one day a week, your child should have to put things away and organize himself.
Talk about plans. Show your child how you plan things by describing what is scheduled for the coming week. Discuss conflicts and ways to make the week go more smoothly.

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