I have coins what I call my rooted in routine non-negotiables and so those are the five

areas of the day that I encourage parents to create mini routines around and so what happens

is if you do this you will kind of naturally fall into a more general routine and general flow

for the whole day. Hello and welcome back to the Peace Doc Talk podcast. A podcast that keeps

growing because of each and every one of you and your reviews so thank you for tuning in

and being here today. Today I'm welcoming childhood routine expert pediatric occupational therapist

mom and founder of rooted in routine on Instagram and we are talking all about the power of routines

in children. Thank you so much for joining me today. Thank you for having me. I'm so excited.

Yeah so I'm so excited that we could do this Jessica. This is going to be a great conversation.

I also share a love of routine and the understanding that sometimes having a flexible

routine is important but I like to explain to families why this is so important for children

and toddlers. So tell me more about yourself and what you do. Sure so I'm Jessica. I am a

pediatric occupational therapist. That's my clinical background and I'm also a wife. I'm mom

to a toddler. He is currently 20 months old and most recently the founder of rooted in routine

which is my online education platform for parents. So yeah I do all of that. I currently still do

work two days a week as a clinical pediatric OT and then the rest of my time is spent working on

this online business to help more of you guys. So what made you start rooted in routine?

Yeah so I've been in pediatrics as an OT for my whole career. I'm going on 10 years now as an OT

and I've worked in multiple pediatric settings and really what I saw in all of the settings I've

worked in which is elementary schools, daycares, early intervention, private clinical practice

and most recently home health pediatrics. What I really saw after you know working in pediatrics

for a few years was how powerful a child's routine is at home and at school or wherever they go

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