Structure

Ruy and I have been blessed with Andrea. Yes she’s a bitch and she has occassional tantrums as any normal two-year old would but she’s generally well adjusted and very disciplined. One thing which helped her I believe is the daily ritual she established with my grandmother. Unfortunately I am not very good with rituals and I felt that Andrea was not blossoming because of the lack of structure. Last week I gave schedules a try and boy did Andrea love it.

I generally wake up earlier than Andrea so that’s when I come up with her schedule. I try to think of our activities for the day and then draw them. Yes, DRAW. I needed Andrea to understand the schedule so we had to use drawings.  When Andrea wakes up we talk about the schedule and she reads/interprets it herself and she makes changes in case there are things she doesn’t like.

Let me tell you what this schedule is all about. 1. Eat cookies, 2. Swim in her wading pool,3. Bathe (yes that’s a soap, excuse my ugly drawing), 4.Practice writing.

Here’s page 2 of her schedule

Next is drinking milk in a cup with a straw, then watching TV, and then eating lunch.

Andrea adores her schedule. She makes sure to check each activity once it’s finished and I feel her days are better utilized. We’ve been doing it for around 8 days and so far she’s loving it. Let’s see if we can keep this up.

(p.s. I’ve started including words in the recent schedules as I plan on teaching her how to read soon)