Regular routines create less stress for school kids

From day one with your newborn baby, the importance of routine is emphasised from most parenting experts.

Now a new parenting site from the NSPCC, Your Family, is getting its range of expert advisors to highlight the importance of routine in children’s lives.

Having a regular routine implemented may help ease children’s stress at the start of new school terms. Children may find the start of school again as stressful as their parents.

Regular meal times, TV programme times and bath times are all ways of making the transition from holiday time to busy school term. 

Your Family magazine editor-in-chief and NSPCC parenting advisor, Eileen
Hayes said: “It is important to factor downtime into a routine, for
example, if you plan putting in place a regular homework slot, do not ask
to see reading books or work straight after school. Let kids take a break,
watch a TV programme or have a snack. Parents must understand that school
puts a huge emotional demand on a child, and more often than not it is
better to give them space first rather than fuss around them.”

 www.yourfamily.org.uk.