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Wednesday, 7 October 2026

7 Fun Morning Routine Ideas Sluggish Kids Will Love

From the archive. This post was first published on the original Green Eggs and Moms blog and is kept here as it was.

Some kids love mornings while others don’t.

How do you get children who move as slow as zombies to wake up and move faster?

Morning Routine: Zombie

Sweep nagging and scolding under the rug because they may work but they’re no fun.

The solution?

Head to our latest guest post titled: Fun Morning Routine Ideas Sluggish Kids Will Love over at Make or Break. It’s a mix of games, incentives and fun reminders to get those sluggish kids to wiggle a bit faster.

By the way, a pre-requisite to this article offers parenting tips to help moms organize and strategize their morning routine. Feel free to check it out!

GE&M would like to send a heart felt thank you to Pehpot of Make or Break for publishing the post. It was fun thinking and researching on creative ideas to help kiddos and their harried moms through stressful mornings.

2/15/12 UPDATE: Here are useful links that lead to the morning checklist, printable routine cards and the morning routine chart (respectively items 5, 6, 7 on the post). These are all free.

Here are other parenting articles by us featured on other blogs.

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Creative Commons from Tommy Ellis

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