Plan, plan, plan, what you want to accomplish for the week (month or year or day LOL). Then realize children do not always follow your plan. Neither does God, and His plan will be better. Plan anyway, it helps to have an idea or goal for the week.
Preparation for the day or week (if you can do it) has helped me so much. This should be a 'no brainer' but I realized I wasn't preparing as much as I could or should. Princess will complete all her work quickly. Butterfly will only do some of hers, but she's 2 so I'm happy :-). Having alternate things in mind really helps with both of them.
Little Man has a 'schedule', but I can have him complete whatever lessons I want him to really. He is ahead of schedule right now. If I look over his lessons before hand, it's easier to help him. I understand the lesson more. We can get through them more quickly. If he understand the concept, I can skip part of the lesson. That is something I am making myself do. My mind really wants to 'do' everything listed in the lesson. But, he will get frustrated if make him do things he 'has already done before' in another lesson.
He had a PE lesson for Monday. We went for a walk, and I went over the lesson with all the kids while we walked. When we got home, he finished another 10 minuets on the computer to complete PE. And today is a Saturday. He wasn't upset about doing 'school work'. If I hadn't made any preparation, we would have done the lesson Monday. Now we have extra time for something else.
God is working on my patience, and I'm working with Him to hold my peace through all of this. Butterfly is enjoying her terrible twos :-). I really believe God is using her to help me become more patient. Preparation for what's coming I guess.
One of the many things we enjoyed on our walk today...
Have a blessed day.
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