Salam Alaikum sisters🌸 Hope you are feeling good today.
So few practical advices what helping to establish HABITS AND FOLLOW DAILY ROUTINE EASIER.
I asked you to think how these questions can help in making daily routine tasks obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
1. How can I make it obvious?
2. How can I make it attractive?
3. How can I make it easy?
4. How can I make it satisfying?
If you want your children become motivated themselves means you as well need to show your motivation. Do it together.
The best advice what helped my teenager kids to become more motivated to wash hands themselves was when I offered them to choose: “do you want to wash your hands in the kitchen sink or in the bathroom?” Also you can say : “ If you washed your hands come and enjoy food?”
For smaller kids you can divide tasks in steps. It helps easier to memorise. First open the tap, make sure it’s not hot, second put hands in the water, third apply soap ect.
Satisfactory they should feel themselves, you can state : now hands are clean and not sticky. It helps them to feel and pay attention to their bodies.
Visual reminders always working great for kids and adults👍🏻 It can be written rules/ steps attached to the bathroom wall. It can be pictures for little ones.
Also tools and equipment motivating kids and helping them to be more independent like children foot step, their own toothbrush.
3 years old kids liking stories, so you can create stories about how important to wash hands, face and when we need to do that. Teach ablution.
I focused on personal hygiene but similar examples you can use to help kids follow other daily routine tasks and establish good habits.