How do I create a daily routine for a new puppy?

Wake time, meal times and bedtime are the easiest anchors to keep consistent, and everything else, walks, training, naps, can be scheduled around them based on your puppy's current age and energy level.

A simple printed schedule on the fridge, listing rough times for meals, toilet trips and naps, helps everyone from partners to visiting grandparents follow the same routine rather than each person doing things slightly differently.

For an 8 to 12 week old puppy, a workable shape looks roughly like wake and toilet around 7am, breakfast at 7:15, a short play or training session, then a nap by 8:30, repeating a similar toilet, activity, nap cycle every hour and a half to two hours through the day, with the last toilet trip and settle around 9 to 10pm. Adjust the exact clock times to fit your own household's schedule rather than copying this precisely.

Build in a buffer of ten or fifteen minutes around each fixed point rather than expecting exact precision, since real life, a longer work call, traffic on the way home, will occasionally shift things, and a routine that cannot flex a little tends to cause more stress than one with reasonable slack built in from the start.

Revisit and loosen the schedule every few weeks as your puppy grows, since a rigid routine appropriate for a 9 week old puppy needing frequent toilet breaks becomes unnecessarily restrictive by 6 months, when bladder control and independence have both improved considerably.