Good habits at home that your children should learn NOW
There are some habits at home that your children should learn as soon as possible, for their good in the short and long term!
It’s never too early when it comes to teaching your kids good habits at home . It takes 21 days to kick a habit and change it to another, but it will take 66 days for it to become an automatic habit. The sooner you start a habit, the sooner it will start to etch in your mind. This is why it is so important to start teaching children good habits at home from an early age.
In this way, when your children begin to understand what you say to them when you do them, then you can explain to them that they have to keep their toys in their place or put their dirty clothes in the basket, for example. There are some habits that can wait until they are older, but you will still have to start instilling them.
The habits of health, mind and body are habits that should also be learned little by little, but below we are going to focus more on the habits of the home that are necessary for your children to have a good integral development. A good way to incorporate these habits is by creating a sticker chart or reward system to motivate them to do the task.
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MAKE THE BED
The change in the world begins when you make the bed. Your 7-year-old may not be very interested in doing it, but it is your responsibility as a parent to get the message across that he needs to do it and learn it as soon as possible. It’s their reaponsability. If you encourage your child to choose bedding for his bedroom, you will be motivating him to feel responsible with his bed.
If, for example, you have a drawing that you like on the quilt, then they will want to see it at all times and they will not feel lazy to fix the bed and see the image in their room. Don’t expect your child to make the bed like they do in a hotel, but don’t worry because practice makes perfect.
COLLECT YOUR THINGS
Another good habit at home is to collect things for yourself. If your child has had a drink or has eaten something with a plate, at the end he will have to pick it up and take it to the kitchen. If you remove your clothes in the living room, you will have to take it to your bedroom or to the laundry basket if it is to be washed, etc. There are many adults who fail in these tasks because it was never a built-in habit, but rather you have felt it as an arduous and heavy task.
That is another advantage of building these good habits from the beginning, it will not seem like an arduous task, but rather something that must be done and done, because things, they do not do themselves. Following these lines, you can also teach him about coexistence and if, for example, he fills his glass of gua, he asks if someone else wants or if he picks up his plate, that he begins to clear the table and that others also help. etc. Or, when they walk around the house and see something out of place, they pick it up and return it, whether they are going to use it or not.
By teaching them to pack their things, you will also be showing them how to clean as they go. If something is used, it is left where it was, if juice is spilled it is cleaned on the spot … There are children (and adults) who have a bad habit of waiting for others to clean what they make dirty. The habit begins by trying to fix it before you need help.
NEVER SLEEP IN A MESSY ROOM
If your children make their beds when they get up, they should also make sure that their bedroom is well tidy up at night. Sleeping in a messy room affects your sleep and your emotional state as well. Parents are also affected by seeing the bedroom messy with everything in between.
Before they go to bed or when they finish their game in the afternoon, they should put their things away (a practical habit). This habit will also teach them to be more organized and make them more likely to ” clean as they go” so they don’t have to do it when it’s time to go to bed.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.