Establish Healthy Family Routines –The Foundation for Your Child’s Successful Future

Tips for building healthy family routines:

1. Establish clear and consistent rules and expectations
   -  remind children often
    

2. Commit to establish structure over the long-haul
   -  productive habits take years
    

3. Acknowledge and reward personal effort
    

4. Use proactive discipline
   -  reward good behavior rather than threats
   -  if discipline isn’t working, get help from a professional, take classes
    

5. Encourage rather than punish
    

6. Allow unstructured time
   -  stress and responsibility free
    

7. Stay focused on long-term goals.

Don’t give up too soon.