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please tell me about your routine with your family

Wendyof2Wendyof2
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We have no routine and NEED one bad!!!!  In fact, I dont know why I waited so long to post this lol.   I have a 5 year old daughter and a 9 year old son and routine is what we all need especially I the sole provider while hubby works overseas every two weeks which is very difficult cause when he comes home, things get messed up like a so called schedule if I had one in place lol.   Shouldn I be writing a schedule/routine?    I have yet to assign chores knowing they are capable to do so.  What is your routine/schedule from am to bedtime?  Any advice would be great! Thankyou
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Re: please tell me about your routine with your family

  • mrswright2006mrswright2006 member

    My schedule probably won't be of much help, but here is how my day goes most days - except days like today when DS wakes up at 3:45 AM

    6:20 - wake up, and spend a few moments basking in the quiet and getting things ready for the day
    6:45  - wake up DD
    She gets dressed and feeds herself while I make her lunch.
    7:30 - leave for school


    I drive her, and generally we are back home by 8:10, and DS plays while I do some cleaning.  Aside from getting him a nap, nothing is scheduled while DD is in school, because, well, he is 1, and unpredictable.  Most days, DD stays with my mom after school (she teaches high school, but K-12 is in the same building, so she picks her up until DH gets off work.  It saves us a bunch of money on gas not having to make 4 round trips in one day between DH and I).

    5:00 - DH and DD get home from school/work.  I try to have dinner mostly prepared when they get home
    5:30 or 6 - eat
    7 - bedtime

    If I go to get her after school, we generally play outside for an hour, and then go relax inside until DH gets home.

    DD doesn't really do chores yet.  We focus more on doing as she is told, and helping with tasks that need to be done.  She is in charge of helping with brother while I shower/clean/cook, and grabbing me things that I need if I am busy - like a diaper for her brother, or eggs from the fridge when cooking.  She is in charge of making her own breakfasts and most lunches on weekends or if she has a day off. 

    We ask her to pick up after herself, and put her things away, but honestly, most of the time we do it for her.  It is a trade off.  She knows she will get paid allowance if she cleans her playroom/bedroom/outside toys, and if Mom or Dad does it, the toys we deem broken, annoying, or non-essential (like art projects) get thrown away.  It works for DH and I, because it gives us the ability to purge toys at will, but ultimately the blame goes to DD for not willingly picking up when we ask her to. 

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  • laurenb89laurenb89

    I need a rountine as well, and planned on posting for help to get a routine in place.

    We have a 2 yr old and my husband works out of town Mon-thurs. We get up whenever we feel like it, eat when we feel like it, and DD naps when she wants. She gets a bath at night and before we go out (if we do) and I pretty much stay in sweats mon- mid afternoon thurs. unless we go out. I try to get the housework done in between and I feel like its never ever done.

    I guess for me the hard part isnt making a schedule its getting on the schedule. To get her to take a nap at X time do I put her to bed early one night and get her up early the next or just skip a nap one day? I could ask a million questions about schedules lol

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  • Mrs.HizzoMrs.Hizzo member
    Well...your kids are in school, right? So presumably, they have some sort of routine...like, they have to be up by a certain time, have breakfast, be out the door by X o'clock, and then they're gone until whenever? And I imagine you eat dinner around a certain time and they have a bedtime?
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  • KateVAKateVA member

    I'm assuming you mean routine before school and then again after school? I only have one in school (K) but this is what our day looks like

    6:30 - Wake-up if not already up, he gets to watch one show

    7 - breakfast, brush teeth, get dressed, get packed up

    7:30 - bike to school

    2:45 - pick, some days he has a playdate within the neighborhood which ends at 5

    If not, we do art projects (his favorite), play outside, then do his HW

    6 - dinner

    after dinner is bath, reading, watching one show before bed at 7:30

     

    Fitting in reading time is the hardest now that he;s in school 

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