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Texas ISD School Guide
Texas ISD School Guide







Short Stories for Teachers

Communicating with Kids at Home
By:Leanne

By introducing some very simple communication techniques and tools within your home, children can learn essential skills about time management, how to keep track of daily routine events and you can organize and teach children about how to schedule and manage their timetable of every growing list of school events and chores and of course their social calendar.

With the ever increasing list of day to day social events and interests that children accumulate, a family calendar in the home is perfect for organizing your time and your kids timetable of play dates, school and sporting events, birthday parties and social events. A simple cork board or peg board is ideal for attaching or pinning notes and invitations and keeping a household schedule of events in a central location within the home.

Purchasing and installing a whiteboard or blackboard to function as a community household bulletin board within a common living area of the home is a fantastic messaging tool that is really useful for all occupants within the home. By encouraging children to utilize such a communication device, they too along with everyone else will know exactly where to look for messages and where to leave a message or any other useful information, including day to day notes and simple reminders, whether it be vital information or fun messages and affectionate greetings.

Introducing a family calendar, white board, bulletin board and message center into the home offers order and stability in the home and can provide a reassuring sense of security that everyone in the home is accounted for. These simple and easy to implement communication tools and techniques provide effective household communication within the home and will make organizing time, busy schedule and life just a little more easier for parents and their children.






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