A schedule or a fixed routine is very much essential for your growing child as soon as the child starts to grow his/her habits also begin to cultivate and get stronger with time. Only doing various activities, exploring the things is not important but doing those activities with proper timings is also very important. If there is no fixed timing for your child to pursue the daily activities then it is for sure that the child will not be able to develop the value of discipline in his life. If there is no proper time for sleeping, waking up, eating, studying and playing then the child would feel messed up at the end of the day and so would you being the parent. Lack of schedule leads to irritation in the child as he/she is not able to finish up the tasks on time and might have to sacrifice some of his favourite activities which he certainly wants to do and enjoy. Here the role of the parents especially of the mother is significant, because a mother can very easily mould her child in any way she can compassionately encourage the child to follow some rules and discipline in life. Fixing up the schedule will help both the mother and the child. Because not being able to finish up the required things, also frustrates the mother as she is playing the major role of a care taker of the child. But do remember that discipline should not turn into coercion or compulsion for the child rather it should be followed with happy and good intentions. The moment child tends to develop the feeling of compulsion for following the schedule; he might feel more anxious. Thus, mothers should joyfully try to inculcate the habit of following the routine in the child and once the child would be habitual the schedule would automatically becomes permanent.
I am very well aware of this fact , But my kid needs sleep in the afternoons and because of which she doesnt sleep before 12 midnight . That hampers her from getting up early for schools even 8.30ams become a very difficult task . I have done almost each and every way to make her get the habit of early to sleep early to rise, but it is so difficult for her to get this habit right.
