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Headline: The last step is enforcement
The last step is enforcement
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Post: Wanting to children to have a productive break from school, I tell my students that I want them to do two things this summer: read and do chores. Reading improves their brain (and attention span), and chores helps them learn skills while helping out their families. Along the same lines, I offer parents an E-contract. The "E" stands for electronics. It's a simple sheet of paper with 7 squares for 7 days and room on the bottom for 2 signatures. The parents dictate how many minutes or hours the children spend playing with tablets, video games, tv's, phones, etc, each day. It's a contract between the parents and their children and I recommend they place it prominently on the refrigerator. The E-contract is either a fantastic tool to create electronic limits, or it's a worthless piece of paper meant to show how parents don't follow through on a daily basis. Enforcing rules on children is the hardest part of parenting, but when children realize your consistency, you'll find less push back as they'll know with whom they're dealing.
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Wanting to children to have a productive break from school, I tell my students that I want them to do two things this summer: read and do chores. Reading improves their brain (and attention span), and chores helps them learn skills while helping out their families. Along the same lines, I offer parents an E-contract. The "E" stands for electronics. It's a simple sheet of paper with 7 squares for 7 days and room on the bottom for 2 signatures. The parents dictate how many minutes or hours the children spend playing with tablets, video games, tv's, phones, etc, each day. It's a contract between the parents and their children and I recommend they place it prominently on the refrigerator. The E-contract is either a fantastic tool to create electronic limits, or it's a worthless piece of paper meant to show how parents don't follow through on a daily basis. Enforcing rules on children is the hardest part of parenting, but when children realize your consistency, you'll find less push back as they'll know with whom they're dealing.
Follow our Pearland-Silverlake blog: http://eternalma.com/Event/blog
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