Establishing Routines
I am a major fan of routines – doing something over and over until it becomes a habit. As children we learned almost everything this way. I can still remember nursery rhymes and songs that we sang over and over until they became routine. In grade school we practiced our writing skills by making the same letter over and over until writing our A, B, C’s became routine. This helped us develop a good habit of writing legibly before getting out of grade school. We also learned how to develop a daily routine in grade school. We were taught to arrive on time, go to class, have recess at a designated time, go back to class, have lunch, go back to class, have afternoon recess, go back to class, and finally go home only to start the whole thing over the next day – routine.
