45% growth rate propels Time Timer to the Inc. 5000 

Current users and prospective buyers of Time Timer devices can rest assured that the company is vibrant and growing – and will be there to support its products over the long term. 

This is confirmed in a profile issued by Inc. Magazine, the nation’s most prominent and respected publication for business entrepreneurs.   In ranking Time Timer #3633 in the 2010 Inc. 5000, the magazine cited the company for its 45% growth rate over the past three years.   Even more significantly, Time Timer placed 182nd on Inc.’s list of fastest growing U.S. Consumer Products Companies.  

The profile focuses on how Time Timer president Jan Rogers invented the device to help her own 4-year old daughter understand the concept of time.  Rogers is invited to accept the awards at Inc.’s annual conference and award ceremony in Washington DC later this month.

Rogers, who founded her company in 1991, said:  “This award confirms not only that we are a successful business, but that we offer a product people need and want.  Across the U.S. and worldwide, Time Timers are helping educators, businesses, and families make every moment count. Today, over one million organizations and individuals use our timers to make their lives richer and more productive.  From young children learning to understand time to business executives who view time-management as the key to success, we serve a broad range of customers with many diverse needs,” Rogers added.  

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Council for Exceptional Children advises, you are your child’s best resource for time management.

The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. 

CEC recently published its Guide to Time Management for Gifted Kids.  The Guide focuses on how parents can become time management experts and help their gifted children learn to make every moment count. 

Here are some excerpts from the Guide: 

Learn to Tame Time

Gifted kids find it especially difficult to manage their time. When a child is so interested and stimulated by her world, she can easily become overwhelmed by school projects and after-school programs. Highly motivated minds may tend towards perfectionism and idealism, leading many gifted kids to over-commitment and even burnout. You are your child's best resource, so become her time-management expert now and help her launch into a smooth back-to-school routine.

Know Your Child

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 Most people think College Board exists solely for the purpose of administering and evaluating the SAT.  

Actually, their vision is much broader:  “Inspiring Minds.”  They offer a broad range of aids and resources for high school students who plan to attend college.

With school now or soon-to-be back in session, College Board offers these tips to students for “taking control of your time and organizing your life.”  

1. Make a To Do List every day.

Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. If it's easier, use a planner to track all of your tasks. And don't forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.

2. Use spare minutes wisely.

Get some reading done on the bus ride home from school, for example, and you'll kill two birds with one stone.

3. It's OK to say… “No!”

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Help kids break time into “clear chunks,” advises renowned author/educator Adam J. Cox.

In his acclaimed book, No Mind Left Behind, Dr. Adam J. Cox, cites eight essential brain skills that help all children – especially those with special needs -- reach new levels of achievement.

Reviewers say the book reframes what we know about the brain. 

In his chapter on Changing Channels and Shifting Gears, Dr. Cox writes:  Asking your child “to be ready in 15 minutes” has little value if he can’t yet conceptualize quantities of time.  

Dr. Cox emphasizes the need to help children “see time going by.” This is what we call “tangible time.”

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