Time Manage your Kids’ Routines

Your kid isn’t the only kid on the planet that needs to be told TEN times EVERY morning to get dressed, make their bed and brush teeth. I hate it when I start the day getting upset or irritated at the gifts God gave me because they won’t JUST GET DRESSED. Soooo, yesterday morning I played an upbeat dance song that they love and told them that whoever finished making their bed and getting dressed by the end of the song got a little Mike & Ike candy (I just happened to have 3 leftover from decorating some cake with them). It worked! They were downstairs dressed with beds made ½ way through the song. YIPPEE! Then at night I told them that whoever had their jammies on and their book picked out by the time I got upstairs got to watch a cartoon in the morning. YIPPEE! It was better than saying “If you don’t have your jammies on and your book picked out then you won’t get any tv tomorrow morning.” I am quite pleased with these new kid time management techniques. Maybe someone reading will have success with it too. Simple, nearly effortless and it worked!