| Devoting time to establish consistency and structure is | | | | required to get ready for a new day. Have a set time |
| often one of the biggest challenges that parents face | | | | to be out of bed and a list of preparatory activities, |
| when trying to teach responsibility to their children. Life | | | | including getting dressed, brushing teeth, and combing |
| skills are best learned by example and repetition, | | | | hair. Give a reasonable time frame to complete these |
| meaning that consistency is of utmost importance in | | | | activities, and require the children to be at the |
| building the skills that your children will need in the future | | | | breakfast table by a certain time. |
| in order to survive successfully in today's society. | | | | After breakfast, allow time for checking that all school |
| While imposing a daily home schedule may seem | | | | supplies and homework are properly stored in |
| restrictive, the opposite is actually true. Children need to | | | | backpacks and any accessories - gloves, jackets, etc |
| be able to depend on the adults in their lives and they | | | | - can be donned in time to either get in the car or |
| feel safe and secure when they have a structure and | | | | meet the school bus. Once you have set a morning |
| routine to count on. Children do not yet have the | | | | regime, it is time to work out the evening plans, outlining |
| maturity level to know how to structure their time on | | | | homework time, mealtime, showers, chores, and any |
| their own. They learn these skills from institutions like | | | | other activities that are involved in daily life, while still |
| school and from the adults in their lives. For the | | | | maintaining a consistent bedtime. We are a sleep |
| parents, establishing a family schedule provides | | | | deprived culture. Make efforts not to pass this way of |
| consistency and routine in a busy household. Consider | | | | life on to the next generation. |
| our society in general, and you will find time schedules | | | | Establishing a visible daily schedule for your children to |
| regulating most everything we do. Companies have | | | | follow provides consistency and a foundation from |
| standard hours, schools offer classes with a defined | | | | which they can build on. It will also help you with |
| beginning and end, and mass transportation runs on a | | | | organizing your own day because you will now have a |
| tight, proven schedule that is dependable to all who use | | | | structure and schedule to manage your time |
| it. | | | | effectively and efficiently as well. With a daily schedule |
| By establishing and posting a daily schedule in your | | | | in place for the adults, prevents you from having to |
| home that includes chores and times that tasks are | | | | reinvent the wheel every day. All family members |
| expected to be performed and completed, you are | | | | know the routine and in that they learn and can trust. |
| providing the structure and consistency that your | | | | Providing these routines and structure for your children |
| children need in order to grow and mature. Schedules | | | | while they are young not only provides them with a |
| at home help regulate your children's lives so that they | | | | model of how to manage a home and how to |
| have a model to learn from that they can take into | | | | perform routine home tasks, but it also helps them |
| their adult lives. | | | | develop critical time management life skills that are |
| Start with a morning routine that includes daily tasks | | | | essential to later life success. |