The Typical Weekday Routine.

The typical weekday routine. I say typical for a reason and that’s because with children it is never the same. My children now go to different schools (I’m British) my daughter still goes to primary school but my son goes to secondary school so it complicates things a little.

6:20 am. Wake up. Go to sons bedroom to wake him up. Lift him up and throw him over my shoulder because he refuses to get out of bed.
6:30 am. Receive knock on door, it’s my daughter wanting some breakfast.(no, my daughter doesn’t sleep outside but if you want to know the reason why she isn’t sleeping in the house read previous post).
6:35am. My son and daughter lay the breakfast table for us while I check that they have got their school uniform and P.E. kits ready.
6:40am. Eat Breakfast.
6:50am. Clean teeth.
6:55am. We all take turns in having a shower. If we are behind schedular my children will put underwear on and share the shower at the same time.
7:15am. Me and children share the job of clearing up breakfast dishes.
7:25am. We all get ready for school/work and children check they have got there books, pencil cases ect.
7:35am. Final check that the house is tidy and we haven’t forgotten anything.
7:40am. My son leaves for school bus.
7:45am. I go over my daughters homework with her giving her any help she needs, practicing spellings and finishing of any other work.
8:00am. My daughter does some drawing while I shave and wipe down kitchen work surfaces. (obviously I do these at different times while my daughter is drawing).
8:30am. Walk to school with my daughter.
8:40am. Kiss goodbye to my daughter before legging it home.
8:45am. Pick up my work bag and get in car.
9:00am. Arrive at work.

As you can see my son has 50 minutes less than his sister to get ready in the morning and my daughter ends up having enough time to enjoy herself. It is a strict regulated morning routine where everyone has to do work but everyone has enough time to do everything they need to do. Now I will take you through the evening routine.

3:10pm. Return home from work.
3:15pm. Pick my daughter up from school and walk home.
3:25pm. Return home again.
3:30pm. My son returns home from bus.
3:35pm. We do a exercise that loosens off our muscles and relaxes our body.
3:40pm. My children talk about what they did today and we discus anything that happened at school.
4:00pm. We all have a snack that is normally a healthy cereal bar but if someone got an award or a certificate it is a muffin or a biscuit.
4:05pm. We do homework together helping and explaining it to each other.(when we do this it is a fun way for everyone to have a go at everyone’s homework).
4:45pm. We have a break and just go to our bedroom or something personal and relaxing.
4:55pm. We do a family activity. This could be arts and crafts or cooking or anything active or creative.
5:15pm. We all help make a bit of the evening meal and then put it in to cook.
5:35pm. We make some cereal bars for the next day.
5:50pm. The evening meal has finished cooking and we leave it in the oven to wait for mum.
6:00pm. Mum arrives and we give her lots of hugs and kisses.
6:05pm. The children tell mum what they did during the day and show of any drawings or things they made.
6:10pm. Dinner is served and we feast.
6:40pm. We all get our clothes ready and pack our bags for the next day.
7:00pm. Technology hour. Where we are aloud to go on phones, computers, tv ect. This is also time where we do anything else we want to.
8:00pm. My son gives my daughter a piggy back ride to her house and we all walk back to her home.
8:05pm. The children play while me and mum have some adult time.
8:30pm. Me and my son say good bye and my daughter goes to bed.
8:35pm. Me and my son return home.
8:40pm. Me and my son have a shower each.
8:50pm. Me and my son get into our PJ’s and we have some father son time play fighting and throwing and catching my son.
9:00pm. We have some personal time reading or thinking to ourselves.
9:10pm. Lights off and my son goes to sleep.
9:15pm. I do any work that is deadlined for the next day.
9:40pm. I surf the Internet, read txts ect.
10:00pm. I have some me time.
10:10pm. I go to sleep.

Before you think how smoothly this runs, it doesn’t. There is a lot of “Do I have to” and “Cant we forget it for today”. Also the time we spend talking about the day and some of homework time is forfeited if one of my children have a club. Lots of the above schedule above wont make sense unless you read the previous post so please feel free to do that now. Take a deep breath in through you nose for 7 seconds and out through your mouth for ten seconds. We are now all calm and relaxed after the hard day we have just been through.

Question: How do you plan out your day differently with your children?

-Stay strong and stay wise-