There is an insane amount of pressure that’s been created by the public school system to lump every child into the same category and gives little room for different learning paces. Children are given lots of busy work to meet a certain number of classroom hours which often spill into added hours of homework. Studies show our children's attention spans are about 3 minutes per year old...
We always provide the necessities and many extras for our kids. We don't tie their allowance to a chore at this point. As a starting point, I introduce the concept of budgets and allowance around age 6. This is usually when they begin learning about the value of money in school. We do a dollar per year old, per week. So a 6 year old would get $6 per week and so on. Recently, my daughter told me she wanted to buy catchers gear...
The mind is a powerful thing. It can be a great tool or a serious adversary. I’ve struggled with situational depression and anxiety on and off throughout my life. while never easy, when struggling with mental health challenges, the concept of changing your mindset, changing your life is much more difficult to do.