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What's
Your Morning Routine?
Copyright © 2003
Andrea
Simanson
All Rights Reserved
Everyone has a morning
routine! Whether it's planned or not,
every family has one. Have you talked about yours? If not,
I encourage you to discuss it as a family and write it down.
Things to consider:
- What time do you need
to leave in order to get
everyone to work, school, and daycare on time. If you all need to
be there by 8:30, allow enough time for travel, delays (in people and
traffic), drop offs, and getting settled once there.
- What needs to happen
prior to leaving? Eat
breakfast, get showered and dressed, family devotions, make
lunches? How long do each of those things take?
- Do any of your
children have morning commitments
(basketball or volleyball practice, etc.) This could change the
routine.
- How quickly does
everyone wake up and get
moving? One child may jump out of bed and move quickly through
the preparation time. Another may not be a morning person and
need more time to transition from the sleep state. What about the
parents? We're all different and need to work together as a team
if we want it to be a pleasant experience.
- Who will do what
responsibilities? Does
everyone prepare their own breakfast or does mom or dad do that?
Who gets the little one dressed? Who clears the table after
breakfast?
If you regularly talk
with your family about how the morning routine is
working, you can identify how to better work as a team to peacefully
start each day! Sometimes a simple change is all that's needed to
improve the quality of your life!
Andrea
Simanson is a wife
and
mother of three children, and the website and ezine editor of Successful Family Chores
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