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 overcorrection, 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.