“Hi George: I checked with my daughter to make sure it was okay that I share her story and she said that it was actually kind of cool. So here it is:
My very organized fourth grade daughter’s homework comes home every Monday and is due back Friday morning. When this started, I was “helping” her organize what she would do each day by labeling tasks with color coded Post-It notes. Being rather Orange, I had her do a little vocabulary, a little math and a little reading each day throughout the week, because that seemed more fun to me.
We spent hours doing homework and at least once a week had stressed out tears and I was at a loss how to help. It was dreadful! About a week after I got home from my first Colors seminar, my daughter asked if she could color code what she wanted to do each day. I was looking for anything that would help and readily agreed.
I was surprised to see her color code her homework completely differently than I had been doing. She chose one subject to do from start to finish each day. So Monday was math, Tuesday was vocabulary, etc. What was even more amazing is that she gets her homework done in a fraction of the time it used to take, and with very little stress! All I could think about was: Wow – Gold kid – Orange Mom!
I cannot thank you enough for opening my eyes to her personality and how I can best respect that; when to step in and, more difficult for me, when to let her do her thing.” S. W.