Some things I've learned (re-learned) about accomplishing things with a preschooler:
- Plan ahead...if I don't prep things (usually the night before) ahead of time, we don't do them!
- Make it doable! Don't try to do too much. I show a week's worth of activities at a time on this blog. The rest of time my little man is playing with legos, blocks, being Larryboy, loving on the dog, watching Veggie Tales...you get the idea.
- Go with the flow. My preschooler is almost always ready to do his "activities". On days when we've been running a lot or have a number of outside activities...we don't do a lot of "activities".
- Pinterest...I really like pinterest. It's a great tool to get tons of ideas for preschoolers. I actually do accomplish a great deal of the things I pin. (There is a lot that I don't get around to, as well) It's easy to look on my preschool board to get some great ideas for the week ahead.
- At this age, make it fun...don't push it! I had one child that didn't want to do anything pre-school related. So we waited until kindergarten to start anything...anything intentional, that is. Michael loves doing school related things, so I just follow his lead.
- Don't compare yourself to other people or their blogs. When we look around and see others' doing so much more than we are...it can lead to a very defeated attitude. I saw a quote this week talking about "comparing myself to myself". If you do one more thing today/this week/this month, than you did in the past...that's what you focus on. Not that your "neighbor" did 25 more things than you did.
- Get other people involved. My two older kids help out a lot with Michael. On their assignment sheets, they have a daily activity as well as reading him one book. If I just can't get around to doing my "list", then I feel good that he's gotten some extra attention from his sister and brother.
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