How to Boost your Kids’ Productivity Without Doing Too Much

Our kids’ productivity is falling; their sleep and health is deteriorating, and here we are: sitting—wondering what went wrong. Well, there is not much we did that actually go wrong; in fact, it’s THE reason why everything went wrong. We aren’t doing A LOT!

When the world was introduced to smartphones and tablets, everyone rushed to adapt to the mobile technology without caring much about the consequences. Our kids have seen us (ab)use technology and that’s why they have been doing the same (like father like son). But now, it’s killing our kids’ time, energy and everything that’s in between. Parents who are in absolute denial about their kids’ productivity, and those who aren’t, they all needs to read this.

Your kids’ social media use (not even abuse) is linked to depression, schizophrenia, and poorer sleep; that inevitably leads to lower productivity.

I have amalgamated these 4 tips that would boost your child’s productivity without doing much. Take a look:

Don’t helicopter

Helicoptering is the paradox of contemporary parenting fail. And there isn’t anything more defying and condescending for your kids that they are being watched over, nudged and scrutinized for everything that they do. While it’s normal for parents to be neglectful of their kids’ activities nowadays, but the moment that they are hit by an epiphany, they turn all cautious and parent-y right away. Kids hate this!

Try to be more easy-going with your kids and even if you aren’t, be subtle. You don’t want your child to know that your changed behavior is ephemeral, or inadvertently, a premonition for something more intimidating from your side. Keep it cool to avoid any insubordination. “YOU ARE GROUNDED” doesn’t work quite effectively anymore; so instead, use this:

Monitor their smartphone

You own your child’s smartphone; you simply own them—that’s the rule! But if you aren’t very certain of what I aforementioned, we need to talk a little more on this one.

So basically, your child’s smartphone is the reason why their lives have changed, entirely. Real world playgrounds have turned into digital playgrounds and school bullying and bullies have turned to social media. There are innumerable reasons how internet surfing and social networks can influence your child, but your best bet would be to deliver something that would largely reduce the collateral. Monitoring is the solution.

Keep track on your kids’ online activity and you are halfway there with giving an instant boost to their productivity. Have a smartphone monitoring app like xnspy that can do all the monitoring part all by itself. All you have to do is to install this app on your child’s smartphone. Once done, you can access their chats, multimedia, emails, social media, contacts and possibly everything else that’s on their phone. And if needed, you can also manage what they can access on their cell phone. Kids’ spend 9 hours on average in front of screens, and if you are able to reduce that even by a few hours, that would be a success.

Let them talk

Once you will have the parental controls in place, it’s time for you to wait because your kids would definitely try to come up with a talk. If you are monitoring their phone right (positively reinforcing their behavior), they would want to come and talk to you about it. This is the point where you can set up a “smartphone contract”, mutually. This contract, though, not legally binding, will reiterate how much important it is for you that your kids use technology effectively. Include clauses like when how much time your kids can spend with their phones and other gadgets and when; how they can use social media; what they can post (and what they cannot); and so on. This also that point where you can break the ice and talk to them about more important stuff like cyber predating.

Give them fewer chances to go outside

Your child holds the right to go out and spend time. But that time needs to be quality and productive. If your child is outgoing, they will prefer to study at a friend’s place, school, etc., and if their grades are fine, let them do it. If not, it’s probably because either your child is never having those study sessions or they are just wasting their time. With Xnspy, you can also monitor your child’s current location, so there won’t be any more lying about where they would be going. Invite your kids’ friends to your place, rather; it’s a much better option as you would be able to monitor everything in front of your eyes.

Lastly, keep parenting simple. Be a strong parent if you want to raise your child in a better manner, and don’t forget to use some digital rules; after all, they definitely work in this time and age.

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Girl on Fire

Photographer at Loudmouth Photography

Brandy is the wife to a carpenter/musician and the mother of 3 amazingly awesome homeschool/unschooled girls. Brandy is a Photographer as well as a Coach for the Weebellion as part of Rolling Rebellion Jr. Roller Derby. Brandy is passionate about many things and suffers from a very painful and degenerative neurological disease called CRPS/RSD.

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