This is something my mother used to tell me over and over again, when I was a child. At that time, I hated it. But now, as a parent myself, I find it be full of wisdom and instruction on how to raise a family. Here are some parenting tools that will help you use the power of practice in forming strong habits for children, disciplining through over-correction, and using rituals to build family strength.
Habits are a parenting tool that parents can use to teach children positive behaviors.
Children and parents are creatures of habit. Everything they do is a habit or becomes one, if repeated. In addition, how parents and children interact together, positively or negatively, is a habit. All of these habits are fashioned out of the repetition of common, daily routines. For example, what a person eats, when they eat, and how they eat, is all based on daily repetition.