Habits Of Daily Life To Promote Psychoaffective Development

He establishing habits and routines Through learning, it is essential for the proper development of children. It is a process during which constant knowledge, attitudes and ways of doing things are progressively incorporated through the repetition of the same behaviors, which constitutes routines.

How to create a good routine?

When we talk about daily routine We refer to those activities that the child carries out daily to satisfy his or her primary needs. Feeding, dream and hygiene and They constitute the main facets that children can manage with their parents.

At the time of establish routines It is necessary to take into account the child’s cognitive development. Parents must maintain a consistent and consistent attitude with the application of the guidelines: thus, we must always react in the same way to the same behaviors, it is important not to give in to demands. The key is consistency, patience and repetition.

Importance of habits and routines

Habits and routines in children:

• They provide security and trust by knowing what to expect inside the home.
• They develop feelings of responsibility and autonomy
• They favor the self control
• They promote the ability to self driven in the world, since they allow the acquisition of knowledge and attitudes.

The acquisition of habits between 2 and 3 years is directly related to the beginning of the development of one’s own autonomy in the different routines of daily life.

How to set habits?

• They should be incorporated from an early age.
• The key to internalizing them is repetition.
• It is positive to explain the reason for the tasks.
• At first it will be positive to help the child do them, later he will begin to do them himself.
• It is important to be flexible and adapt routines to the child’s needs.
• Remember: perseverance, patience and repetition.

General guidelines for emotional-social development through habits:

• Avoid contrasting educational attitudes among parents.
• Establish a limited number of rules to comply with clearly and demand compliance (always within flexibility and adaptation to the age of the child).
• Being too rigid will cause your child to not allow himself to make any mistakes, which will create great anxiety in him.
• Being too permissive will not allow you to develop self-control, which will make you impulsive, weak and capricious.
• A picture is worth a thousand words: try to lead by example.
• Small frustrations will help you understand that reality will not always be favorable, we should not avoid them.
• Make it easier for your child to contact other children his age.
• Don’t do for your child the things he can do for himself.
• Promotes the acquisition of habits in a calm and natural environment.
• Each child has his own rhythm: it is not important that he learns soon, but rather when he is mature enough to do so.