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Convention Notes: Getting it All Done

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GETTING IT ALL DONE

*Remember you life is broken into seasons*


  1. Streamline children's schedule:
    • Only let them get involved in activities that strengthen their talents.
  2. Saturate the home with scriptures
    • Place scripture verses all over the house; switch them out every so often to help with memorization.
  3. Spend only 2 1/2-3 hours on school every day.
  4. Do what works for the child.
    • Challenge, but don't overwhelm.
  5. Plant a book in quiet time locations for the children to look at.
  6. Learn History from a person who lived it.
  7. Organize the home:
    • Isolate frustrations/evaluate frustrations
      • Treat frustrations as a project
    • Make priorities
    • Spend one month to organize
      • Everything has a place (give children treasure boxes)
        • (I need to find a way to organize Kate's art projects)
    • Organize Self
      • Use notebook to plan everything (I have a new system to blog about that is working!)
    • Train children in organization
      • During the summer decide who will to each chore for entire school year
      • In August, show how to do the chore
      • Room check
        • Sometime during the week, give treat if they pass (I forgot about this ... totally want to do it now!)
  8. Preschoolers
    • Spend 10 minutes with them before school, in the middle of school, and after
Obedience has 3 parts:
  1. Cheerfully
  2. Immediately
  3. Thoroughly




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Aubrey A said…
Ah! I had every intention of doing the "preschool 10" before school started. . .I need to get on that! Thanks for the reminder!!!
November 01, 2012
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