How to stay calm while doing homework: I was recently selected to write a post about Glade® Wax Melts and how I use scents to relax, by #CollectiveBias and #MeltsBestFeelings.  My biggest issue with trying to relax lately has been keeping my family calm during homework time. If you have a child in middle school, then you know that it can be a particularly stressful time of day. With the move to middle school, a child’s daily education goes from having one or a small group of teachers in elementary, to having multiple teachers in middle school. Many of the teachers are assigning homework unaware of what is due in other subjects, causing a child to learn time management and multitasking. So it is a “Welcome to the real world kid” for your middle school child.  My family has been struggling with this transitional time in my son’s educational development. My friend told me to hold strong through middle school, which will make high school easier when the grades really count.  I wanted to share tips with you for keeping your cool and staying “zen” during your child’s development into an independent high school student.

How to Stay Calm while doing Homework with a PreTeen:

1. Remove all distractions:  TV, toys, magazines, and other siblings
2. Make sure the work area is well lit
3. Make sure your child uses the restroom.
4. Do make sure your child has had a snack or provide a snack/drink to be eaten as they accomplish the tasks
5. Us the child’s daily planer from school and check it.  Also ask if there is a Rubric (which is a the assignments criteria requirements)
6. Working in a Common Area: Don’t allow you child to retreat to bedroom to do assignments. Homework in the bedroom is a privilege which must be earned.
7. Don’t make work area too comfortable: Avoid couches and beds .. Preteens are growing so they require a lot of sleep,  so the area is to comfortable they will fall asleep.
8. Avoid homework escalation,  stay calm and reminding them doing once correctly is quicker than doing the task twice
9. I recommend staying in the room to keep the child on task.   Don’t move and clean.. it can be distracting. Try a station ay task  like Knitting, computer time, and make this some slow down time for you while being present for your child.
10. Get a snack for yourself or  try tea.
11. If possible sit read a book. Which shows reading is good.
12. Use a calming smell such as a Glade® melts to relax  and  ease the tension that can come from a child unavoidable  homework.

Smells can make you relax.  When I am using Glade® wax melts they set the tone of a room.  Just by adding a smell of scent from a Glade® Wax Melt it can change the mood of a stressful environment in to a comforting easier space.    I started using Glades products to make my own workspace more enjoyable.  I find I feel more creative and inspired when all my senses are involved in my creative process.  So why would I not add Glade that to my sons space.

While visiting Shoprite to purchase my Glade® Wax Melts.  I really enjoyed smelling all the new fragrance option. My favorites were the new fragrances from the Glade® limited Edition spring Collection including  Live Loud and Lift Off.   I choose the Lift Off and Hawaiian Breeze – both smells transform me to a tropical warm climate.

While shopping Shoprite, I found the Glade® Wax Melts really easily.   They were in the center of the store,  at the beginning of the isle.  The Glade® Wax Melts refills were located on  the shelf together and the melt burner was the shelf below them.  I appreciate  the fact that Glade® Wax Melts has no open flame and a light to tell you when it is on.

The good thing is the Glade® Wax Melts are on sale at Shoprite over the next few weeks:

2/9-2/15: Limited Edition Spring Collection at the Everyday Low Price of $2.99

2/16-2/22:  Buy 5 Glade products, get $3 off your next shopping order, wax melts on Price Plus feature at $2.99

I hope these tips help you to easy up the stress in you life so take a few moments read  a book and plus in a Glade® Wax Melt Warmer with the Fragrance for your choice to relax all your senses.   Just think someday your kids will have children and  they too will have to conquer middle school homework. Have fun being Zen.