The Importance of Family Routines

Every family needs routines. They help to organize life and keep it from becoming too chaotic. Children do best when routines are regular, predictable, and consistent.

 

One of a family’s greatest challenges is to establish comfortable, effective routines, which should achieve a happy compromise between the disorder and confusion that can occur without them and the rigidity and boredom that can come with too much structure and regimentation, where children are given no choice and little flexibility.

 

As a parent, review the routines in your household to ensure that they accomplish what you want.

 

Click here for tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

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