7 Time Management Tips for Homeschool Moms

Create Boundaries

Ensure that you create boundaries for yourself for your work and your homeschooling, and don’t stay up late into the night planning or on social media. If you wake up tired and miserable, no one will have a good day.

Realize that you need to be on point for everything to go smoothly, take care of yourself, and by creating boundaries you’re putting yourself right on up there of the priorities list along with your kids.

Create a Daily To-Do List

Use an app, planner, or sticky note, what is your to-do list for today? Write it all down including your cleaning tasks, outings, and such so you don’t forget anything. Then attack the most difficult tasks first, if you leave them last on your list, likely, they won’t likely get done at all.

Focus On Your Priorities

What needs to happen now versus later? Email and social media can wait, get the kids on their way to school, and use those quiet afternoon times for your work as you sit alongside your child. If not you may have to leave it for the evening when the kids have settled in.

I know I can’t get any writing done during the day so I work on other tasks during the day and save my writing for when the kids are in bed.

Get Organized

Ensure that you have a plan for your meals the next day so you’re not scrambling around the kitchen trying to figure out what you’ll be making the next day. Leave your homeschool room organized at the end of each day so that you are not searching for things when you start up the next day.

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Eliminate Electronics

It can be a huge time suck to constantly be checking email or social media, you really need to ensure that you’ve placed limits on your electronics usage. Set an example for your kids.

It’s so easy to sit at the computer and come off hours later and realize that you haven’t completed anything on your to-do list because you have 10 tabs open and your attention is divided between so many things.

Set a Timer

If you have a task to complete, set the timer for the allotted time and work to complete it by the alarm. This pushes you to be more productive and avoid things that suck up your time. When I work on the computer I use the Chrome app, Strict Workflow, I added all of my social media sites, and email addresses to it. I work for 25 minutes and I’m locked out of all those sites.

This gives me 25 minutes of concentrated work and then you get 5 minutes of access to all of those sites. This is the best invention ever. I have my son use this as well so that he’s not tempted to go wandering around YouTube when he knows he should be getting his work done.

Get the Kids Involved

You are not alone in your home, get your kids involved with the meal prep and clean up. All of the kids have zones that they are responsible for so when it needs to be cleaned up, I know who to turn to. Older children get more responsibilities but that doesn’t mean your littles should be left out.

They too can have little jobs to help you out around the house. My 3-year-old loves sweeping and helping Mama in the kitchen. She puts all the utensils from the dishwasher away.

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