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This sounds lamely sim­ple but before I started using it, my boys made me gray!

Sched­ule Routine.

Profound…I know.

I took a small dry erase board and put it up in the kitchen with the weeks sched­ule by the hours. This way the boys would wake up and know exactly when some­thing was going to occur. Example:

7–9 Break­fast, brush teeth, put away clean clothes
9  Snack 
9–11:30 Library or Putt-Putt or Park or Zoo, etc
11:30–12 Lunch
12:30–2:30 Play out­side (Bikes, water­gun fights, sprinkler/slip-n-slide fun, etc)
2:30 Cool snacks (frozen grapes, pop­si­cles, smooth­ies, etc)
3:00–5:00 Inside games, toys, video games
5:00–5:30 Help with din­ner
6:00 Din­ner
7:00–8:00 Play out­side or go for a walk/bike ride
8:00 — Start get­ting cleaned up and ready for bed, read until bedtime.

This kind of sched­ule actu­ally freed me up for more time to write and clean the house (oh yea!). I also didn’t have to hear, “Mom, what can I do?” “Mom, I’m bored!” “Mom, He’s hit­ting me!”…oh wait…they still do that. Oh well, 2 out of 3 ain’t half bad!