Shhh, here’s what’s new: I’ve just finished writing my “12 kids resolutions ideas for 12 months” planner! I always was the biggest fan in goals setting, routines and planning. Last year was the first time I made kids resolutions planner.

You can download the planner here.

It is actually a resolution plan in which I separate resolutions in 4 important areas to help focus on stuff that matter. Easy to follow, each of the four areas has detailed instruction, examples and a place to plan (write them down).

12 kids resolutions for 12 months.

This year, however, I decided on stepping out of the routine a bit. Last year’s guide helped me achieve all the goals with the kiddo that I planned. And I will still be focusing on those exact four areas. But I’ll separate them in 12 months, with the end of the month of achieving/finishing as a deadline.

You should make goals according to your child’s passions. Forcing them out of the safe passions zone into strange, just because you think a certain skill is the perfect one to learn, won’t make them successful. It may also mess up with their self-respect and future happiness.

Here’s what I’ve chosen. I hope to be as successful in achieving them as I was during the previous year.

January|

Montessori general knowledge learning, colours and materials, season changes and months.

Recently, we’ve bought a Larousse Montessori inspired workbook for children 3-6 years old. It’s an interactive book with reusable cards and 50 activities for them to learn with parents. Almost every page has a tip for parents on how to explain a certain thing.

The following month, I thought, we’ll start with colour mixing, learning different colour shades, materials and seasons. We’ll learn the difference between natural and handmade materials. But also, the process of making certain handmade materials. Lastly, seasons changing, months and daily, afternoon, noon and night routines.

February|

Montessori practical life activities + establish learning English routine.

My son’s born in Serbia, but I started teaching him English ever since. These days, however, we’ve got ourselves in such a mess with English classes, which supposed to naturally happen first thing in the morning. Therefore, I’ll try to make it a routine once again. I’ll go for those hours when his concentration is high.

Also, I’m going to support him in finishing tasks on his own more. Such as making a PB and banana sandwich, changing clothes and shoes, using the toilet and washing hands (he already does this alone most times), putting all of his toys away etc. Like January activity, the purpose of this activity is making his life easier by encouraging independence.

March|

Move the drums to music room, go deeper with lessons.

One of the resolutions from last year was to make playing the drums as an everyday thing. I did force the music hours to him. But I did it only because we’ve all seen how good he was at music and because I wanted to help him be better at what he truly loved doing.

My method was to time the best hour of the day, according to his everyday routine and to gently support him visit the music room at that exact hour. And to give applauses. Here’s where you can read more about that, it’s under the “afternoon hours” paragraph.

Anyhow, March is his birthday month and aside of us planning him the perfect party, we’ll also move the drums, which are now in the living room, to his music room. Every time, the changes like this one have proven to be the best strategy for keeping him focused and inspired.

I like that he now plays all day long and that we weren’t wrong about it being his hobby number 1. And how could we be wrong, his dad is a musician, and I’m a guitar beginner as well.

When we move the drum set to the music room, there’ll be more silent time for introducing him to further lessons. Without distractions at all. Plus, the music room is most inspirational during spring and the light coming in through the window is beautiful.

April|

Spring scavenger hunt + Easter specials.

There’s a bunch of worksheets with spring activities (and other stuff) coming on Mommysup! Most of them will be free, so don’t forget to subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated!

We’ll design worksheets for a scavenger hunt and other spring activities, as well as the Easter special worksheets.

May|

Montessori general knowledge learning, life cycles, all about people, animals, insects and plants.

I do believe May is the perfect month to start teaching him life cycles since that’s when nature and his creatures have already woken up. The best learning method is to see the facts in personal. In May, with lots of trips to nature, he’d be able to see almost everything.

We’ll start from the life cycle of frog and butterfly. Then we’ll learn how chicken comes out of an egg. And how a baby comes out of a woman plus life cycle of humans (how we get old).

I’ll then move onto teaching him parts of the flower and how to distinguish the leaves of different trees. Lastly, we’ll learn animals classification, their skin, their habitat and food chain.

June|

Start yoga.

We’ll start yoga in June because that’s when I’ll probably get confident into advanced practise, so I can investigate further on how to start teaching him yoga too. Also because we could practise on fresh air.

July|

Explore nature at least two mornings weekly.

July and August tend to be those boring, slow months because they’re the hottest. We often get into that terrible rut of sitting home, drinking beer or watermelon juice, doing nothing. But 2020 will be the year of changes.

Hopefully, the little one would learn so much by July, so he’ll be ready to investigate with everything in woods. I won’t let us ruin it to him anyway. Even on the hottest day, we’ll go for a morning walk in the nearest wood to investigate.

August|

Montessori general knowledge learning, geography.

Looks like August will be the month of learning for me too. I rate low in spatial intelligence and I can’t always remember to show that not so popular country on a map in those first 15 seconds, lol!

The book has a “world discovery” section, where we’ll learn the continents, countries and cities. After he gets that all right, I’ll ask him where is his house and see where we stand from that.

There are another two things I would like to teach him this month: the solar system and aggregate states of water. Only if he doesn’t feel too tired from the previous lesson. If yes, I’ll forward that to September.

September|

Start singing lessons.

Dad’s birthday month and we’ll gift him a singing lesson for the little one. He always says to me it is important that, one day, he starts the vocal exercises. That will help him find his voice or at least to control the one he has at that time and to expand his vocal range, if possible.

By September, I’ll have plenty of time to investigate the correct method. Whether it be following a piano, a YouTube tutorial, or having a teacher, I want to start this right. Tbh, I’d like him having a teacher who’ll motivate him and be a gentle authority. This will definitely help him learn how to be responsible.

October|

Autumn scavenger hunt.

Whilst autumn has always been my favourite, my son never really had a chance to enjoy it. He hated the spiders hidden in the fallen leaves and he hated that transition when he needs to wear a jacket again.

However, he seems like a big boy even now and I promise I’ll never scream because of bugs in front of him again! I can’t wait to make an October scavenger hunt and talk about the seasons changing with him once again.

November|

Montessori general knowledge learning: math.

The book introduces kids to learning shapes, sizes and logical arrays. Math sounds a bit tricky even to me, but luckily, November sounds far enough to investigate the whole thing. Since it’s my birthday month, I’ll also gift myself with learning a new thing, logic.

December|

Kid’s wishlist and unwind.

YAY, time to relax, at last! We’ll decorate, we’ll get cosy, we’ll make a lot of gift lists and we’ll UNWIND. In 2020, I want to encourage my kid to speak his wishes out loud. I will return to past months and emphasize how much has he learned, how well he behaved because of that, and that now is his time to choose.

Final thoughts.

I’ve never gotten myself this deep in making my son’s resolutions before. Probably because he was way too little to do so. However, experience on my “kids resolutions planner” has shown that it’s the correct way to do so. I set goals according to my child’s interests, followed them and seen progress.

But you know there’s no mother like yourself, just as there’s no mother like myself. While filling the “kids resolution planner”, if you decide so (but I badly hope that you will), you’ll have to think deep and listen carefully. Whatever puts that sincere smile on his face, stay close to that and act aside that.

I can’t wait to see how will you fill the kids resolutions planner for 2020!

Also, if you feel like sharing the ultimate kids resolutions guide, you can pin the images above to inspire others! 🙂