Time Management

What does the phrase “Time Management” mean to you?

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• There should probably be a time management class in high schools. Add all the homework that we get, to three hours of practice after school, a test the next day we have to study for, stuff your parents expect you to do at home, stuff your friends want you to do- that you’d really like to do(!), and the very real need for some sleep and rest- and it’s just too much!
  
  I’d like to fit everything in, but I don’t have a clue as to how to begin managing. There is no possible way. What am I supposed to cut out? School? Sports? Friends? Sleep? Yeah, if there were a class at my school to help me figure all this out, I would probably take it.
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• To me “Time Management” means impossible! Teens are always stressed out because there is NO time to relax!
  
  Think about this- Kids spend more time in school than at home. Here’s a school day. I have a test or quiz or something to worry about next period; I need to finish my homework that I didn’t “manage my time” well enough to get done last night; the teacher is talking and talking and her mouth just keeps moving. And funny thing, I was sort of interested in something she said about 4 sentences ago, but she’s off that topic now. For a minute I thought about raising my hand and asking about something she said that I didn’t understand, but I don’t want to look stupid.
  
  Maybe I’ll ask my counselor if he knows, and that reminds me, I am supposed to be there after this class. His office is all the way on the other side of the building and I’ll have to run to get there in time, but I don’t want to look weird running.
  
  The day is just too short and I need some sleep.
  
  Eric, age 16. Kansas City, Kansas

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