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By Denise Witmer, About.com Guide to Parenting Teens since 1997

Get in the Habit of Checking Planners Together

Thursday August 28, 2008
One of my goals this year is to check all of our planners, together, every week. This involves all of our family being in the same room at the same time with our planners. It also involves everyone being in the good habit of filling out their planners. So far, I think my middle child has everyone else beat, but we are all trying to keep up to date with our planners. Here are two good reasons why I’m striving to reach this goal:
  1. Weeks when you know what is going on, you can get things done. Otherwise, the world seems to pass you by.
  2. When there is too much to do and you know it beforehand, you can delegate. Otherwise, you just get caught up in a mess of things to do. This can cause hurt feelings when say, you almost miss the mom and daughter tea at the school.
This also helps your school student organize homework and projects, which let you know when you need more construction paper. Or when you need to get him/her new basketball sneakers. I really do love when my family remembers to do this and recommend it to all who like, or need, a little organization in their household.

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