Children face different daily routines during their development process. It is important to have some routines at home in order to regularly perform some basic habits such as sleeping and eating at home. When children grow up and start to encounter social environments outside of the nuclear family, they begin to notice some social order and rules. While gaining new experiences with school, he encounters some daily flow patterns that he is expected to follow. There are class times, breaks and meal times. Similarly, in adult life, continuous routines such as work and home responsibilities are a part of life.
Having routines and meeting certain needs in a certain order during the day also contributes to the relaxation of children, reducing the uncertainties during the day, and showing more patience for the next activity and activity. Otherwise, it can be confusing for children to sleep at different times every day, not having a study order, not having a certain time spent with the family, and consuming the food they want at any time. For the child, whose time management skills are still developing and who remain in uncertainty, it may be difficult to follow his responsibilities in behavioral terms, while emotional anxiety and tension may be in question. These situations can lead to behaviors of different extremes, such as acting with the urge to have unlimited access or acting with an attitude of abandonment.
Morning and evening routines facilitate the daily flow, while at the same time improving planning and organizing skills for children. strengthens them and contributes to their understanding of time management. Routines are a set of behavioral patterns that should be arranged according to the age of children. To give an example of routines, “Wake up, wash your hands, go to the bathroom, put on your clothes and get your school stuff to leave the house.” It can be a morning routine. The routine after school is “When you get home, change your clothes, rest, eat healthy snacks and complete homework.” it could be. Those who have trouble sleeping or who want to postpone the sleep time all the time “Wear your pajamas, brush your teeth, go to bed and read a book,” which also signals bedtime for children. A routine can also be used.
Talking about routines with the family and putting them in a picture or table according to the child's age is one of the activities that can support the child's acquisition of this behavior pattern.
Routines should be structures that must be followed consistently, but can be updated depending on age and developmental period. Existing routines are updated depending on the life cycle and developmental processes, just as our social life routines outside the home are updated with online social activities at home, or an 8-year-old child and a 15-year-old teenager do not sleep at the same time, which we live with during the pandemic process. It should not be forgotten that patience and consistency are important for every routine and behavior we want to gain, except for stretches and updates depending on the need.
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