Yes. These are all timers.
You just can't have too many ways to mark the time with six kids.
They help me (the mother) develop in my students the habit of attention.
Charlotte Mason encouraged joy and ease at every turn.
That means we need SHORT LESSONS! And what a fun way to make sure it's short.
We need to keep the important and exciting parts moving.
And leave plenty of room for when we don't use the timers.
You know, we don't need the timers when we are out on a nature hike.
We won't use them when we bake a cake or count to one hundred.
Who needs a timer when you read one poem?
Or look at one amazing painting?
By all means, remove the timers when you've gotten into the meat of your favorite handcraft in the afternoon.
So remember:
Let's use the timers to keep our reading aloud to 20 minutes or less.
Let's use a timer for a quick 7 minute written narration when we are just now 10 years old.
Let's use a timer to see if we can shorten the time it takes to do our chores.
Let's use the timer to keep our math lessons to 20 minutes or less.
Let's use a timer to find a way to be focused in prayer.
And please let me stay with this hard book just for 10 minutes and come back later in the day for another 10.
And by all means (please mom) can we use a timer to keep our quiet time to a quick 60 minutes.