It’s back to school time!
We’ve managed to accomplish all the usual back-to-school activities:
✔ new tennis shoes (summer = worn out shoes!)
✔ new clothes (yep, kids grow in 3 months)
✔ school supplies
✔ Open House
✔ ice cream with the grandparents to mark the occasion
It’s back to school time! Time to spruce up our morning routines.
Now we’re working on our morning routine since in our family, mornings are our “around the table times”. Hubby works afternoons and evenings during the week as a pastoral life coach, so eating dinner around the table together usually only happens on the weekends when we aren’t out exploring or traveling.
Parenting With Purpose
Each year has seasons, and for us, the back-to-school season is a great time to refocus on intentional parenting with purpose.
Now that our “big kids” are a little older (6 and 3), this year’s morning routine after our kids wake up will include asking them to:
✔ get dressed independently
✔ put lunch in backpack & backpack by the door
✔ sit at the breakfast table with the family (sometimes sitting is the hardest part for them)
✔ write something you’re thankful for in our family gratitude journal
✔ work on scripture memory as a family
It’s simple on purpose since our kids are young.
Your Morning Routine
Your morning routine will look different in your home, but I’d encourage you to take a few minutes to think about what kind of morning would be your ideal morning. Then work backwards to put systems and routines in place to make that happen.
Let’s be real. If you have a beautifully planned schedule for your mornings and you have littles, middles, or even big big kids, your mornings probably won’t go 100% like you plan. But as the saying goes, failing to plan = planning to fail.
So this school year, let’s be intentional in determining the type of environment we’d like to create for our family and take some action to make it happen. Then remember to give yourself and your kiddos grace when it doesn’t work perfectly.
To help you get started, I’ve created two downloadable printables with encouraging back-to-school Bible verses. Please feel free to share with anyone you think would benefit from these as a jumpstart to intentional, God-centered mornings.
Blessings,
Click the image to download a printable version.
Click the image to download a printable version.
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