#13 Provide reassuring routines
Intermediate, ages 2-16
Children sometimes misbehave because of stressful changes in their lives. When their routine is disturbed, provide children with dependable, reassuring experiences.

Examples:
Parents take the time to eat breakfast with their young grade-school child. Before she leaves for school, one or both of the parents give her a hug.
Every evening, before his son goes to sleep, father reads a bedtime story.
Father takes his teenage daughter out to lunch at least once a week.

Next: Tool 14