Time management is a young mother: how to cope with things and not go crazy
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
flexible scheduling
With the advent of the child everything gets turned upside down and it seems that in the endless stream of cases to plan something quite impossible. Only in clever books and some Instagram-profiles of children live under the regime, as babies at all soundly asleep all night.
Plan a day as possible, but without rigid time reference. Schedule currently three things you want to do during the day. Hike to the clinic for the cause is also considered. If you get a quick deal with everything and still have time, consider what you want more: to release the next day, or to arrange a break today. Do not reproach yourself, if you do not have time to perform even these three points.
Keep always in mind a plan B. If the child does not fall asleep at the planned you have the "right" time, then switch to some other cause. For example, you are planning to write an article, while the child is asleep, but he was not asleep. Take a vacuum cleaner and place the order with him, pour flowers - be engaged in any other business, and do not be angry and do not worry, that everything went according to plan. Children grow up very quickly, and often parents do not have time to regroup, to act in a new way.
Child planning can only be flexible. Always have a backup plan!
The smaller the child, the more attention it requires. If it seems like the whole day nothing at all had time to sit down for a moment and write a column, how many times are you today feed the baby, dressed him, have a massage, take a ride on the ball, played, put to bed - turn list impressive.
Housework
Purchase of products
Shopping trips can be quite exhausting, especially if you are faced with a situation where all the food was over the house and cook totally out of nothing.
Plan rough Weekly MenuAnd go to the store only with a list of products sorted by department.
In the shop - just a list!
The best option - to go shopping husband, especially if you live in a building with no elevator. Write a list of extremely friendly, no "buy giblets", as her husband is likely to be looking for just such a phrase on the price tag, but not solved in the heart, lungs and kidneys.
Build shopping list gradually. If ended any product - make it to the list. Here you really help out a variety of applications.
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Cooking
Break cooking on several stages. The smaller the child, the more fractional turn out go to the kitchen. It can be in the morning to clean the vegetables, cut all day, in the evening to cook or fry. In more peaceful days, make blanks: Clean and cut the vegetables and frozen. You can also make a workpiece, for example, boiled barley and beans. Then it will be enough to get them out of the freezer and add to any soup.
Cook several dishes and a few days in advance.
During the preparation of any dish there are times when you do not need to do anything - just stir and watch. These quiet moments can be combined with the preparation for something else.
Prepare a second soup water. It becomes very simple: take two pots, pour in both the same amount of water is put meat and simmer. Once the water has boiled - shift the meat into the second pan and cook until done. Apart from the fact that the second broth is considered a dietary and helpful, you save a lot of time taking pictures of foam. It there is simply no!
Cook simple meals that do not require long standing at the stove, and a large number of ingredients.
Buy or borrow from friends multivarku to make a final decision, it is suitable for you or not. Porridge Multivarki will prepare themselves to set in the evening time.
Many complain that night in multivarka sour milk. In this case, you can either ask a family member, which after all go to bed, tuck multivarku or cook on the water, and add the milk already in the finished dish.
And finally, the most important thing.
Eat dumplings couple of days in a row - is normal. Even three days, if it allows the mother to relax and rejuvenate.
Laundry and ironing
Ironing linen - a waste of time: it is still pomnotsya quickly. Enough to squeeze clothes at low speed and gently hang.
Iron the only that critically needed. Except for those cases, if you enjoy the process.
Make sure that her husband and older children, a sufficient number of T-shirts and other clothing, which does not require ironing, and shirt hide deep in the closet: still they did not find them.
When the child turns a year, there is no need to wash them separately things: his clothes with the beginning of walking and so is actively cooperating with the "adult" tissue.
Cleaning
On Basically Fly Lady details will not dwell: for it was already said a lot. Take from this method key: Take 20 minutes a day that annoys you. Some people do not like the unmade bed, someone is mad at the sight of the mountain of dishes. Remove annoying element, and the house immediately becomes more pleasant.
Do not select a special day for general cleaning, and get out of the course of affairs. Took from the kitchen a watering can to water the flowers in the room, on the way back collected cups which have accumulated at the computer.
Delegation
Well, if there are grandparents. Involve them as much as they are ready. If they do not, contact your friends. When a child is just born, new parents often hear: "Be sure to call me when you need help." And this is not an empty phrase. Your loved ones really want and are willing to help you, just do not know how. Your task - to direct their energies in the right direction.
The Pope - a full participant education kid from the early days.
The division of responsibilities on a purely male and purely feminine lost its meaning with the termination of subsistence farming.
Once back from the hospital - just hand the child's father. There are solved two problems at once: the Pope with the first days of studying together with you to take care of the child, and he formed an attachment. The more a man into something putting your time and effort, the stronger the connection. Give clear instructions and dad safely leave them alone with the child. At the popes at times better to get to bathe and put the little ones.
If you leave a child, then fully trust that person with whom left. It does not matter if the Pope did not feed the baby food that is too hot or too cold, or even forget to feed the whole day your child goes in torn socks and some stupid hat.
Time for yourself
There is a risk completely dissolved in motherhood and forget about the fact that there was some own life before the children. This approach eventually leads inevitably to emotional burnout. Make time for your hobbies, or be sure to take it, if you still have not found.
Do not waste your time on the hang-on "Mama" forums: nothing but negativity, you can gain out of there, and the precious time of rest leave.
While the child is still very small, it can hover for long periods on the breast, which means that there is almost an entire day reading or listening to lectures of interest to you, and audiobooks. Talk on the phone with her friends for a walk and get acquainted with other moms.
If the child until you have been active, then join a fitness club or enjoy yoga. It will be a wonderful opportunity to get away from all of at least 1.5 hours, and keep fit. You can do at home and independently.
The most important rule, which will allow to make time - do not waste a sweet dream child for cooking, cleaning and other uninspiring affairs, and to spend this time with the maximum benefit for themselves.
child sleep - time just for moms, but not for household chores.
If you paint, then let you have even the entire day on the table will be paper and ink. So you can go directly to a favorite hobby, as soon as the baby falls asleep.
Save the name you are interested in books and movies in the notes. So you do not take the time to search for "order of the review," and immediately start reading or watching what you're wondering.
All the household chores do when waking the child. Sling, lounge, ergoryukzak, bizibord to help. The child develops not only and not so much through razvivashki much through these daily activities, in which it is involved from a very early age.
Motherhood - it's a marathon, not a sprint, and our task - to sustain this distance. Proper rest, we restore your mother's life. This means that we can take better care of the child and to communicate with their loved ones.
Share in the comments, what techniques you use!