The benefits of getting the kids organized
Posted by Charles Batchelor on January 4, 2008
It’s now three days old, but the article in the New Year’s Day issue of The New York Times about tutors helping boys do better in school remains at the top of the list as the most popular.
The thrust of the article is very simple: Boys seem generally to have more difficulty getting organized and multitasking than girls.
“The guys just don’t seem to develop the skills that involve organization as early,” Judith Kleinfeld, a psychology professor at the University of Alaska and founder of the Boys Project, a coalition of researchers, educators and parents to address boys’ problems, said in the article.
The answer is, according to the article, is giving boys more attention and following up in a positive way about being organized.
It’s our hope WuduPlz.com might be seen as a simple but clever tool that parents can use to help their boys and girls be more organized and responsible. Even the name of the service “Would you please” is a good start.
WuduPlz helps the adults in the household be a bit more organized, using the power of the list. By sending a short, timely list regularly to young family members, kids see how adults handle the world in a responsible way.
WuduPlz, used thoughtfully, can be a great teaching tool. And, it can get the trash taken out or the dishwasher loaded, too.
