Starting Each Day the Right Way With Your Children
Starting each day properly for yourself, your family, and your children is essential if you want to create a healthy and happy environment. Many people are too busy in today’s world and end up looking over the little things in life that really count. As a parent, it is your job to create a positive routine that exists in your house starting each and every morning.
It all starts with going to bed at a decent hour. No matter what you have that is keeping you awake at night, you must intentionally decide you will go to bed and get a good night’s sleep. Usually eight hours is recommended, but you need to make sure you get a minimum of six. Next, you need to wake up every morning allowing enough time for yourself and your family to get ready at a decent pace. You do not need to wake up running around your home, banging on your children’s door yelling at them that if you don’t get up now you are going to be late.
If you have a similar routine such as this that exists in your home, try and put yourself in their shoes for a minute. How would you like to be woken up in the morning by somebody banging on your door and yelling at you? It would probably not start the day off the way you would want.
Instead of the yelling and banging approach, wake up 10 minutes earlier each morning. When you walk by their room, say in a nice and gentle voice it is time to get up. Go downstairs and turn on the coffee maker or prepare your kitchen for breakfast. 10 minutes later, go back upstairs or to your children’s bedroom and make sure they are up and out of bed. If they are not, you’ll need to say in a little bit of a deeper voice it is time to get up.
What your children reach the age of seven or eight, is a good idea to give them an alarm clock. By this point in life, they should be able to get themselves out of bed. This is a very simple and easy responsibility your child can learn at an early age. This can help set the stage for other responsibilities to be accepted much easier later in life.
It is up to you as the parent said the routine for the day. This all starts with the first thing you do each and every morning with your children.
