How do you keep a routine during the holidays?
One of the most prominent challenges during a period of great time off or the holidays - is to maintain a stable routine for our child.
Nega Hila Mutana, a parent and family guide, with some important principles that will help you get through it
Nega halo conditional, in collaboration with JAMA
08/18/2022
Thursday, August 18, 2022, 07:22
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Most of the toddlers have a regular schedule until the beginning of August, and then there are about three weeks off that the parents try to improvise solutions, whether it's maneuvers between work and home, shifts between the parents, grandmothers and there are some who are also allowed to fly abroad or vacation in Israel. Either way- There is a disruption in the routine, every day we have to reinvent ourselves, look for what we are doing or who we are with.
We asked
Nega Hila Mutana
- parent and family instructor, NLP facilitator, holistic child therapist and marriage counselor to write us some important principles:
some important principles that we should emphasize:
1. Create as many clear anchors as possible: such as fixed meal times as much as possible, rest times (usually toddlers rest at lunch), shower time and dinner.
2. Make sure you have one central activity: sea or pool, gymboree or meeting with friends, important Do not overload with activities so as not to exhaust you and your child.
3. Plan in advance - Following on from the previous section, it is important that you at least know "what are we doing tomorrow?"
Make a weekly table and write down something main that you will do.
Divide the day into two - morning until midnight and from midnight until evening.
4. Maintaining nutrition - some of us have a tendency to be exposed to food a little more... how to say - less healthy, this is because we feel in a kind of "all inclusive" long weekend that we are allowed to deviate a little from the routine diet.
We sometimes eat more ice creams or snacks or refreshing hail.
Make sure to have one snack a day, or "one day, one day no" and it is possible and desirable to have less, if possible.
It is recommended to switch to a nutritious and sweet fruit dish, there are great summer fruits now and also making smoothies is a fun and refreshing experience (*I am not a nutritionist, these are only general recommendations intended to answer sweet cravings due to the loose routine during the day, ours and our child's)
5. Screen time - pay attention that the exposure time to the screens did not increase significantly.
6. Keeping the house rules - it is very easy during the holidays to "stretch the boundaries a bit", to allow going to bed late or perhaps eating in a certain area of the house that you don't agree with during your routine.
Flexibility and openness are important qualities, choose a few rules that you think are unambiguous and choose a few of them that you are willing to be flexible with.
There is a lot of value in following the rules that gives children confidence.
If you want to be flexible about something now, think carefully if it is in principle for you that it will later return to the old legality or if you are also okay with the change becoming a new habit, this is to avoid confusion later on.
Although the freedom is only about three weeks for preschoolers, still maintaining habits during this period is essential, as part of creating clear boundaries that create security and certainty for our child.
Moreover, maintaining a few principles consistently will help you both in adapting in September and in preserving during the holidays.
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