Morning Lift-Off Made Simple

By Stacy DeBroff

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Make a pact with your partner to clean the kitchen and do the dishes together every night before bed.

Setting the breakfast table is a great task for your preschooler or older child.

Decide what to serve for breakfast to avoid early morning debates.

Keep meals simple, and get your child to commit to a choice the night before. Wait until the weekend to make time-consuming breakfasts.

Some hot items, like pancakes, French toast, and bacon can be made ahead of time and reheated.

For toddlers, keep child-size sippy-cups of milk and juice in the fridge so your child can help herself from the lower shelves.

For those desperate mornings when you or your child oversleeps, have breakfast items like muffins, fruit, granola bars, or cereal in a plastic bag that can be eaten in the car.

If you're a coffee drinker, prepare your coffee maker and set out a travel mug.

Shower or bathe your child at night.

Give your elementary school child her own alarm clock so she can start learning to wake up on her own. A clock radio that wakes her to music will better ease her into the routine. Let her pick out the style she likes best so she feels vested in this "grown-up" item.

Set clocks ahead by ten minutes to help keep you on time in the morning.

To help your toddler remember all the things you want done in the morning, take pictures associated with each activity and mount them on poster board as a visual reminder. This will cut down on the nagging you have to do, and allows your child the independence to master the morning and evening routines on her own.

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Morning Lift-Off Made Simple

JamQueen1 says:

August 17, 2007

I like these tips very helpful to me but how are you to bathe my 2 kids at night without
1) waking up the neighbours
2) let them catch a cold?

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ethmonroe says:

March 19, 2007

Chock-full of ideas. Some we already do, some won't work for us and some we will be trying. Nice to read an article that has more than 5 tips - 4 of which you are already aware of.

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Pequot143 says:

March 15, 2007

Very interesting article with a lot of good advice.

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