It becomes apparent that routines are vital to babies and toddlers when you've been on a schedule and for whatever reason that schedule is disrupted. In our house we have a semi-flexible schedule. Our toddler gets up in the morning between 5 and 7, takes his nap between 10 and 12 and goes down for the night somewhere around 7pm. With the coming of summer, meaning both parents home all the time, and the introduction of a new brother, that flexible schedule went out the window as did our easily agreeable, predictable toddler.These factors have made getting back on that schedule a painstakingly time consuming task. It is working but it is not as easy as I had hoped. We are finding that the old standby night time routines are no longer working. Bath, a twilight walk, books or a movie in mommy-daddy bed. He seems to need either my husband or me to do even the most simple of tasks. My husband and I are turning down invitations for fun activities that JD can do because it would interrupt our work getting him on a schedule.
I don't personally know about families who do not operate on a schedule but I do know that it wouldn't work for my family.
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