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PUNCTUALITY: Strict observance in keeping engagements
Vs. Tardiness
- SUGGESTED READINGS:
Excuses, Excuses
Sam Never Forgets
Sebastian Temple is Always Late
DISNEY-Telling Time
Ecclesiastics 3:1
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Around the World in Eighty Days
FAMILY ACTIVITY:
- After dinner, sit in a circle, and as a family discuss how it felt
to arrive at an activity late and how that impacted others.
- Your children learn about being on time from you. Set a good
example by leaving when you tell them you are going to, and arriving
for appointments with them on time.
- Teach your older children to call ahead if they are going to be
late for an appointment.
- Help your children draw up a daily schedule.
CLASS ACTIVITY:
- Hand out several minor assignments that are due at a specific time
during the day and require students to hand in their assignments at
that time to get them used to being punctual in turning in
assignments.
- Have students create a daily schedule outlining what they have to
do and when.
HIGH SCHOOL ACTIVITY:
- Discuss the importance of punctuality in applying for a job or for
college admissions.
CREATING A POSITIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT:
- Teachers are leaders and must lead by example. Teachers must be on
time to class or students will assume that tardiness is acceptable.
When teachers promise to hand something out, or return an assignment
by a certain date they must honor their commitment or over time
students will assume that they have the same luxury.
"Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of
clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his
time." -Horace Mann
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues; always
insist on it in your subordinates." -Don Marquis
"A stitch in time saves nine." -Proverb
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