This week is 'Lucky Shamrock' week!

Theme: Lucky Shamrock

Toddler Concept: Traditions, Routine and Consistency

Family Traditions give children the very important sense of belonging, and also provide routine and consistency. Children learn that every year, Christmas, Easter, Birthdays and other Holidays are always set aside to be celebrated. A break from school and work to be together. Besides the sense of belonging and security that these routines give to children, they also provide something that is equally as important and that is family time together. Increasingly, as our society becomes faster paced and as economics demand that both parents work, time with children is becoming scarcer. Keeping the traditions each year guarantees that you are spending some time with the kids, and these will never be wasted moments. Once the all too short time between the birth of our children and their leaving home is over, few parents will look back and wish that they had spent more time at work. Most will long for the days when their children needed them and depended upon the
Teenagers often shake their parents’ faith in the value of traditions because they need to spend so much time with their friends. They are often just testing. Insist that traditions be inviolate and that all family members attend. Years from now you will see your children keeping the same traditions in their families.
If your family has few real traditions, add some of your own. Try to have something for each season and holiday that is done the same way each year.

This week at Flip's we'll be focusing on routines and the importance of consistency.