Organizing and Managing Your Family

Ten Tips

#1: Give up. There will never be organization. Recognize defeat, shake hands with it, bake some cookies together and kick back. Then you'll have strength, security and the inner sense that you know, in reality, that the world moves in chaos.

#2: Night Mom is Your Savior. Day Mom gets everything done in the moment. Night Mom prepares you for the next day. Do at least one Night Mom thing that will help Day Mom when she wakes up in the morning. Pack as much of the lunches and snacks as possible. Set out the breakfast dishes.

#3: Do a load of laundry as soon as the dirty clothes pile reaches load-size.

#4: Delegate chores to willing (and unwilling) small helpers. Yard work, kitchen work, babysitting, housecleaning. Reward with ice cream and time together.

#5: Try doing one thing at a time. Do it well.

#6: Cook/prepare for the whole day of meals at the beginning of the day. Then when mealtimes come around, you have everything ready and there's less stress.

#7: Separate children with empty seats between them to reduce fights.

#8: Start bedtime routine at least 15 minutes before you're ready to start. Then maybe you'll get to bed on time.

#9: Get up 10 minutes before you're ready to get up, and you'll have time to walk to school with the kids instead of run.

#10: To de-stress at the end of the day, replay the great moments, and be grateful for the love, joy and chaos of your kids.




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