Successful Parenting Part 2: Boundaries, routines, flexibility and thriving as parents when our children are smarter than we are…and they are doing this all in a digital age. We have all heard that children thrive with routines. What does that mean? And what happens when we can’t stick to those routines? Our children are exposed to so much more information than we ever were as children and we need to adjust our parenting to match this new world we are raising our children in.