Homeschooling Dairy: Teaching the kids how to and when to set life priorities

Greetings to you friends, its another day, full of grace, I believe you all are doing just find, its another season on our homeschool dairy, on the the subject of priority setting.

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What is life priority?

A priority is the concern, interest or desire that comes before all others.” Our priorities are the areas of our lives that are meaningful and important to us. They're usually activities, practices, or relationships that we want to put genuine effort and time into.

Personally I was victim of this as a child, I grew up with passion and zeal to became great, it grew into desperation, in most of my engagements, I failed but yet I knew that there were more to have been gained, later I found out that I would have done absolutely great if I had known how to set my priorities and as well engaged them.

Early in this months as I was interacting with my little homeschool girls, we began to share our insight on the subject of priority, it was shocking to note that, all this while, they were just engaging activities as days came by without no prepared plans, the issue of which one is more important at a time was really not a concern. I saw that to be something that should not be joked with.

As our kids are growing up, life itself will begin to make demands on them as per what to do per time, especially now that our kids have been given so much liberty to do what they believe is good for them, even when their decision making abilities are not strong enough to make decisions that will add value to them, I do believe that the best time to do that is now, here are the few tips that have been helpful and fruitful in our homeschooling engagement.

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Priority 1: Help the kids to discover themselves

The best thing that can happen to any human on the earth is self-discovery, people who were able to discover themselves at the early times, as we know today, are the leading factors in all areas of discipline. Very unfortunately over here in west Africa, the circular education today is more like a scam to the young people because of the events and realities that are captured within the scope of our educational structure. So if we are deliberate about helping them set their priority early, the frustration that the today educational system brings will be managed effectively.

• Their strength and weakness

• Inbuilt Talent /potentials

Priority2: Help them know how to separate strength from weakness

This is very key in the process of setting priorities, if one cannot separate strength from weakness, it will be difficult to know where to channel the available energy and resources, as a result time and energy will be wasted and the journey that would have taken a week or two became months and then went to years.

Priority 3: Physical Health

Take for instance my self, i never had quality time to care for my physical health, while growing up, as a result, i became victims of many health challenges, but not For Gods intervention, i would have been an history by now, as much as our health, the health of our kids is highly crucial and as a matter of fact, it should be first on our items of priorities. when there is health, there is hope, what ever dreams we have, is anchored on the health of a person, the prosperity of an individual, the joy and comfort is possible when there is good health.
When ever there is bad health, it robs the kids of happiness, joy and excitement, also do reduces the overall productivity of a person.

Priority 4: Mental Health

This is one of the basic priority that we need to help our kids to prioritize as the grow up to adulthood, personally like i said before, i am a victim of this, and as we speak now, there is a big struggle trying to help myself when it comes to the issue of resting both in the day and at night, I am always busy with work, social commitments, church, studies, family, and other routine daily activities, Many of us had this experience and by defaults, we seems to build our kids on the same template, its a subject of of high important to prioritize our mental health at this early time before the are grown.

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Let the kids know when to engage and how to engage, let them know their best brain engagement period and when to rest, having zeal without adequate knowledge, will put our kids into absolute confusion, so if we take our time now to do it at this young age, we will be glad we did it. thanks for having me @ekotmordemy, bless you and stay safe.