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because for some kids(like mine), when it's Mom's idea they don't want to listen. I set a good example by being ultra organized, my son wasn't impressed.
by the time my son got to HS I wasn't able to know what and when everything was due. I would buy him all the notebooks and folders and binders and day planner. And every piece of paper would end up in one folder.
Somehow he must have managed because he graduated :-)
Off to college he goes (with all the right supplies and no one to badger him into being organized). I get a call a few weeks into the term, he says "mom you'd be proud of me, I just put all my papers into their own folders". I silently cry out with glee.
No matter how smart a boy is (and on paper my son is pretty smart), he can still be prone to scatterbrainedness and stubbornality disorder (I coined those phrases myself).
For my son, I think the fact that I'm NOT there cajoling him into being organized is actually what prompted him to become more organized by his own volition. For him, it works better if the idea came from within himself and not told to him (by me)
I think I need to write a book "What Dr Spock wouldn't tell you about raising kids (because then you would be too intimidated to even try!)
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