5 Ways That You Can Balance Your Children's Busy Schedule With Your Own
In our swift paced world, everybody is busy and has a full schedule. Besides the fact that you and/or your husband work all day, your youngsters probably also have a schedule after school for extra curricular activities. Three o’clock ballet for your youngest one, four thirty soccer practice for your son and six o’clock picking up the oldest from the library and then dinner? Sounds nuts, but when you have a few children, how can you balance all the schedules without running crazy and without leaving out anybody?
Before you start to change anything on your bustling schedule, put aside a small bit of time for the following helpful 5 steps to balance the schedule.
1. Examine your schedule. Make up or print out a calendar that shows your activities on a daily basis. If you need help with this, there are numerous helpful places you can go to online that will give you a free webbased or downloadable calendar. Like Google Calendar for example.
Make sure that your calendar specifically indicates all the events and activities in a day. It would be best to actually split up the calendar in a way that shows what each family member does at what time. This will help you to look for schedules that clash. It is easy to see on a schedule why you are struggling getting your children here, there, and everywhere. Oftentimes a too busy agenda can produce fatigue for everyone and behavior problems in the children.
2. Analyze. After breaking down your schedule, it's time now to see what you want changed and what you want to accomplish with your new schedule. Do you want your youngsters to come home and do their homework before leaving to visit or playing with friends? Do you want family dinner every night or possibly a tranquil family breakfast each morning? It's important to integrate the essentials needed for balance into your family's new schedule.
3. Write it down. Almost as essential as analyzing and then figuring out what it is you actually want, is the step to write your thoughts and ideas down. The process of studying and brainstorming is only helpful when you can get to a written solution. Written thoughts and ideas do not get lost and get more often set into reality than those not written down. When writing down your thoughts and ideas, make certain to include your family into the process.
It is very probable that you will get your kids to argue over it. At this point it is important not to give in to their begging or their tantrums and to stand a hard ground. Your family’s desires are what brought your family on the crazy schedule in the first place. Introduce your family to the new schedule in a cool, positive manner, emphasize what is good or even improved about this new schedule and maybe tell them what was wrong with the old schedule, how it left you and everyone else unsatisfied and dissatisfied.
4. Follow it. Conform to the new schedule for at least one week. Check the schedule for the
actions to be finished today and make sure that you do not let in anything else. Do not add to the schedule for the first week. Teach everybody to look at the schedule at the beginning of the day and also make sure that they check it and stick to it in the flow of the day. If the schedule holds chores, get everybody to be responsible for their participation in the housework.
5. Be Flexible. Finally, it's key to be flexible until you find the right balance. So after the first week of sticking with your schedule, dissect how the week went. Do there need to be any tweaks or modifications made to accommodate a family member or two? If so, no problem. But don't add too much or make too many changes. The schedule needs to flow until it's natural. Inserting massive changes into your schedule day by day or week by week won't work. So follow your schedule and make slight tweaks until you have balance back in your life again as a result of a low key schedule that you and your whole family can follow.
Before you start to change anything on your bustling schedule, put aside a small bit of time for the following helpful 5 steps to balance the schedule.
1. Examine your schedule. Make up or print out a calendar that shows your activities on a daily basis. If you need help with this, there are numerous helpful places you can go to online that will give you a free webbased or downloadable calendar. Like Google Calendar for example.
Make sure that your calendar specifically indicates all the events and activities in a day. It would be best to actually split up the calendar in a way that shows what each family member does at what time. This will help you to look for schedules that clash. It is easy to see on a schedule why you are struggling getting your children here, there, and everywhere. Oftentimes a too busy agenda can produce fatigue for everyone and behavior problems in the children.
2. Analyze. After breaking down your schedule, it's time now to see what you want changed and what you want to accomplish with your new schedule. Do you want your youngsters to come home and do their homework before leaving to visit or playing with friends? Do you want family dinner every night or possibly a tranquil family breakfast each morning? It's important to integrate the essentials needed for balance into your family's new schedule.
3. Write it down. Almost as essential as analyzing and then figuring out what it is you actually want, is the step to write your thoughts and ideas down. The process of studying and brainstorming is only helpful when you can get to a written solution. Written thoughts and ideas do not get lost and get more often set into reality than those not written down. When writing down your thoughts and ideas, make certain to include your family into the process.
It is very probable that you will get your kids to argue over it. At this point it is important not to give in to their begging or their tantrums and to stand a hard ground. Your family’s desires are what brought your family on the crazy schedule in the first place. Introduce your family to the new schedule in a cool, positive manner, emphasize what is good or even improved about this new schedule and maybe tell them what was wrong with the old schedule, how it left you and everyone else unsatisfied and dissatisfied.
4. Follow it. Conform to the new schedule for at least one week. Check the schedule for the
actions to be finished today and make sure that you do not let in anything else. Do not add to the schedule for the first week. Teach everybody to look at the schedule at the beginning of the day and also make sure that they check it and stick to it in the flow of the day. If the schedule holds chores, get everybody to be responsible for their participation in the housework.
5. Be Flexible. Finally, it's key to be flexible until you find the right balance. So after the first week of sticking with your schedule, dissect how the week went. Do there need to be any tweaks or modifications made to accommodate a family member or two? If so, no problem. But don't add too much or make too many changes. The schedule needs to flow until it's natural. Inserting massive changes into your schedule day by day or week by week won't work. So follow your schedule and make slight tweaks until you have balance back in your life again as a result of a low key schedule that you and your whole family can follow.
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