My friends make fun of me because I am always setting a timer.

Some of the things I use timers for:

• seeing how long it takes me to do the dishes
• Praying (I want to pray at least 5 minutes morning and night and a timer helps me do that)
• remembering to leave to pick my kids up from school
• limiting my social media time (1 hour a day after spending 20 minutes on my to do list)
• limiting phone call lengths
• when teaching, I use one to make sure I get to all the material I wanted to

It sets a boundary and reminds me when it is up.

My kids have learned from this.

Today I came home from voice lessons for T3 and T2 was nowhere to be found!  I called and texted him and was starting to worry when I looked at the calendar and remembered that he had piano.  I hadn’t remembered it was his piano day and hadn’t reminded him to go.  (Our piano teacher is down the street so he can get there himself.)

Indeed he was at piano.  I told him how awesome it was he had remembered to go on his own.  He said, “I set a timer so I wouldn’t forget.”

I was so happy  I had taught him the power of using a timer as a tool and that he remembered to use it on his own!

What things do you use timers for?