Blog — bedtime routine
Make Daily Routines at Home a Little Easier with Time Timer
Establishing routines can help you and your family feel some sense of control over some of the chaos in your everyday life at home. Focusing on ways to maintain these routines is an important way to get started maintaining a sense of order in everyday life. This may be particularly true if you have children in your household.
Our Best Tips for Adjusting to the Daylight Saving Time Change
Time springs forward Sunday, March 14th! Daylight Saving Time changes affect regular schedules and routines as well as the body’s internal rhythms. We’re sharing our best tips for the whole family to have a smooth adjustment to the Daylight Saving Time change.
Tips for Preparing Your Kids for Success in the New School Year
We share tips for setting your child up for success this school year and beyond. Take a look at these tips now.
How to Use the Time Timer with Children at Home
Time is an abstract concept, and Time Timer provides a concrete representation of that concept. For both adults and children, seeing time elapse makes it easier to focus and anticipate transitions. With many parents continuing to work from home while also caring for young children, here are 7 tips to help.
How Sleep Is Affected by Daylight Saving Time Changes
With our clocks about to "spring" forward, it can have more effect on your sleep than you know. Today we discuss how Daylight Savings interrupts your sleep and how to improve your sleep.
Tips From a Parenting Expert That Uses the Time Timer in Everyday Life
Allana Robinson is a Parenting Effectiveness Coach in Western Canada. As a parenting coach for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, and a previous Early Childhood Educator and Developmental Specialist, Allana talks about all the ways Time Timers have helped in her everyday life and the lives of her clients.
Seven Tips for Test Taking
Seven Tips for Test Taking
Spring has sprung here in the U.S., which means more daylight, trees in bloom, soccer games...and testing are just around the corner! We’ve got tips and tricks to help you prepare.
Over the River and Through the Woods Without Losing Your Sanity
Any other time of year, you’d be spending a lot of time organizing a family trip out of town. At the holidays, however, the travel part can be an afterthought.I put together some of my favorite travel tips to make things easier this year so you can have more jolly and less worry.
1. Time Timer ® Watch Plus: No sense burying the lead here. The Watch Plus is the answer to your “Are we there yet” misery. Use the timer function and plug in how much time is left in the trip (add a 10-minute cushion), and hand over your watch. Even though I work for Time Timer, I only recently thought of this one. Sure, the Time Timer is on the tablet and phone, but kids might switch those, and I’m certainly not giving up my phone on the trip. (I’m not driving!) I give it to my impatient child, and voila! It was amazing. He felt in total control of the time remaining on the trip.
3 Ways to Have More Fun with Less Sugar on Halloween!
Halloween can be a lot of fun--but oftentimes, it’s also a lot of sugar. Whether you’re worried about the health concerns, or trying to make sure you get enough Reese’s pumpkins for your secret stash above the fridge, limiting your kids’ intake of Halloween candy can help you make Halloween healthier for your kids.
Time Timer ® spoke with Beth Robeson, The Picky Eater Coach, who offers 3 Ways to Have More Fun with Less Sugar this Halloween:
Thank you, MOMCON2016
We recently returned from MOMCON in Milwaukee, where we shared the Time Timer ® with moms from the MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) International.
As a family-based company, all of us at Time Timer ® loved being a part of this year’s celebration of inspiration and faith for moms. Before it was a household name, the original Time Timer ® was founded in an everyday household in suburban Cincinnati, Ohio.
Jan Rogers struggled to help her daughter, Loran, keep track of time. She wasn’t old enough to read clocks and often missed the bus. So, mom Jan invented Time Timer, which features a patented red disk that shows elapsed time.
It's Time to Establish a Routine for Preschool Bedtime
If you already have an awesome bedtime routine for your preschooler, congrats! You can skip this article, and just share your tips with us.
For the rest of us, whether it was the start of school for our older kids or a change in sleep habits for our infant, it never hurts to consider a bedtime routine that works to get our preschoolers to sleep on time, and maybe even get time for ourselves.
