6 Tips for Extremely Busy Moms
Reconciling the tasks of work with the routine of motherhood is one of the greatest difficulties of modern women. To coordinate your schedules with children’s schedules, and in addition, still finding time to take care of yourself and maintain a harmonious relationship at home can be challenging, but it need not become a nightmare. With the tips below, everyday life becomes less charged and much simpler.
1. Determine a regular routine
Children need predetermined schedules for almost everything. Waking up, having lunch, playing, studying, and going to bed must be scheduled activities so they get used to a regular routine.
This saves time because it avoids endless discussions and arguments about all the tasks they need to do throughout the day.
Choose a reasonable time for the family to wake up, so everyone can have breakfast together and get ready without rushing. From there, it will be easy to determine the bedtime and fit the other activities of the day.
2. Refuse a busy schedule
In order not to go crazy managing the schedules of many extracurricular activities, try not to overload the children. Choose together only one or two activities for each of them to practice during the week.
Excessive classes and engagements complicate your life and their lives, and decrease the time you spend together.
3. Create a collaborative network
You will probably meet many fathers and mothers who have the same problems as you with your children’s logistics. Making contact with these people is not only a matter of knowing what kind of people your children are living with, but it also creates a network of mutual collaboration.
Combine with these acquaintances a relay system to take and pick up children at school and in extracurricular activities. This will unburden their agenda and theirs without compromising the education of the little ones.
4. Have at least two people trusted for emergencies
A late meeting scheduled at work or a dinner with clients are emergency situations that are not usually marked in advance. So it’s good to have someone to tell you to keep the children when you need them.
It could be a relative, a friend, the parents of a little friend of theirs or even a nanny who is available beyond regular hours. The important thing is to be able to entrust children to someone in an extreme situation.
5. Do a weekly planning
Keep track of your children’s weekly schedule. Meetings at school and presentations, for example, do not happen as often and so will be advised in advance.
Try to set up a schedule for the coming week so that you will not get lost in the middle of your appointments, or you will go mad trying to fit schedules you have forgotten.
6. Learn how to delegate tasks
You do not have to do everything yourself. Divide the tasks as much as possible with your husband, the nanny and even your children. Ask for help to clean the house, keep the clothes in order, take the dog for a walk and go to the bank, for example. This will give you extra time and a greater sense of responsibility and teamwork.
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