Guidance for Moms and Dads

What attitudes should they adopt?

Encourage your child’s autonomy, for example: do you prefer to make the bed or do you prefer to do the laundry?
Involve your child in household chores: setting the table, making the bed, washing the dishes, stirring the food when cooking, folding the laundry, hanging out the washing, etc.
Encourage decision-making and self-determination, e.g.: what clothes do you want to wear today, what do you prefer juice or cola, etc.
Organise activities and routines so that they are predictable and give our child security.
For social events where silence and less movement is required, it is a good idea for our child to have done some kind of movement activity before going to the event.
To avoid tantrums during shopping, we can involve our child in the shopping, preparing the list with him or her beforehand and having him or her take the food from the shelves and put it in the bag or trolley.
Travelling quietly in the car is sometimes complicated, but if we keep our child’s attention with games such as “I see I see”, songs, music and films, we can have a comfortable journey.
Sleep is a very important part of our daily lives. To prevent it from being affected, we can do relaxing activities before going to sleep, for example: a warm bath, listening to relaxing music, etc.
Video games or television, and screens in general, activate our brain, making it more difficult for it to fall asleep.
Talking about emotions and helping our children to identify them makes it easier to manage them.

What proportion of activities is most appropriate?

Every day:

3-5 times a week (minimum 20 minutes)

2-3 times a week:

Less than 2 hours a day:

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