Soccer, dance, baseball, lacrosse, softball….the list is endless of the after school activities our kids are engaged in during the spring season. I’m not immune to such a crazy schedule since my children are 12 and 14 yrs old. Last night I opened a link from my daughter’s softball coach to see of a lost of over 20 games to be played in about 10 weeks. No joke. Since I have quite a few high school boys in my practice who play baseball, I’m amazed and a little appalled at the amount of games they need to play during the season.
I’m feeling the urge to rant about society’s demands to inundate our children with insurmountable schedules. Ultimately the kids suffer from these overwhelming schedules especially if they have poor executive functioning skills such as time management and foresight. Disorganized children struggle the most in these situations.
I’ve discussed many times in my blog about chunking school work and creating a good time management plan for your child. For the sake of not repeating myself, I will defer to past posts to give details on all the “how to’s”. What I will do is stress the importance of helping your disorganized child even the somewhat disorganized child, to set up a plan to ensure that his/her school work is completed. You don’t want to be surprised at the end of the school year, when you child’s teacher informs you that he’s missing 4 homeworks and a report from your child.