Time Management from a Different Point of View

“My child gets so overwhelmed with her homework projects that she just fritters away her time without much progress.  How can I help her without rescuing her?”

Discussion
We can give you family-tested ideas to help you teach your child the critical life skill of time management. In our last blog, part 4 of 5, we learned that visual thinkers typically have the most challenges connected to time.  Learning tutor and coach, Marydee Sklar, says, “In general, auditory thinkers seem to have internal clocks and can more easily manage themselves using traditional homework strategies. If your child exhibits most of the behaviors listed in the first box (see Part 4), you can describe your child as a visual thinker. It is critical for visual learners to be taught about time management using methods that match their visual brain.  I know this because I am a visual thinker and have visual-thinking children.  The ideas I use as a learning coach came from problem solving within our family.  The list of tools and ideas below are effective because they keep time in the sight and mind of the visual thinker. I recommend the book, Mapping Inner Space:  Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping, (Zephyr Press, 2001) by Nancy Margulies for more ideas about visual learning and teaching.” [Read more…]