Practice Parenting Skills: Structure and Rules

Highlights

  • Watch the videos and learn how to create structure and rules for your family.
  • Use these free, downloadable, and printable schedules and charts to take the surprise out of what will happen next.

Watch: Learn about creating structure and rules

Discover how family routines make structure and how you can set up that structure to help your child get through the day. Also available in Spanish

Watch: charts & graphs

An expert at timelines and presentations, one mother decides to create structure for her 2-year old son, but finds it surprisingly difficult not to make it overly complicated.

Daily schedules

Having troubling getting your child to go from one activity to another during the day? Daily schedules can help because they take the surprise out of what will happen next.

Sample daily schedule

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Sample daily schedule for parents to print.
A sample daily schedule.

Blank daily schedule

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A blank daily schedule that you can print to use in your home.
Blank daily schedule.

Family rules

A family rule is a specific, clear statement of what you expect. Here is a blank chart for you to customize.

Chart: My family rules

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A chart to write down family rules to post in the home where all family members can read it.
My family rules chart.
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