SAHM schedule
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Anonymous
| I'm a new sahm and I need schedule help! Can someone tell me what your schedule looks like when you have two kids (1 in el and 1 in preschool but next year both in el)? I find myself feeling overwhelmed at times like I am not doing enough while they are home and then a little lost when they are both at school. |
Anonymous
| I stopped working when I had a preschooler and elementary child. I got pregnant before second started kindergarten. It was nice having older kids in full day school when third was born. |
Anonymous
| Most moms work out in the morning before preschool pick up or grocery shop etc. It shouldn't be hard to Google this. |
Anonymous
| Start small with goals to meet for the next day and goals for the next week. I think writing things out in a list helps. Your problem sounds more like one of losing focus, solve for that first. |
Anonymous
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What are some goals you want to accomplish? Are those daily or weekly goals? Grocery shopping/errands? Cleaning? working out?
Before school: sort laundry/throw some into washing machine After drop off: workout, swap laundry Cleaning by room/task/whichever way you prefer shower run errands/grocery shop/meal plan/meal prep pick up kids swap laundry throughout the day as needed. Fold and put away as needed. |
Anonymous
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I have a baby and 1 in elem. but before he was born schedule wise:
9-11 after drop off morning - either laundry, garbages, clean kitchen, mop, garden, clean bathroom etc, 11-12 - eat a leisurely lunch, or pick up DD for lunch 12-1230-walk dog 1230-2:00 - some kind of errand - dr appt, oil change, grocery shopping, household shopping, household stuff that needs to be fixed, car repair stuff, meal planning, making snacks/breakfasrs and freezing them 2:00-3:00 make dinner and dessert - pick up dd at 3:15 *if theres a day i have open time ill go to the gym, visit older family in the area or just have some lazy time. |
Anonymous
| Mornings I go to pure Barre or hot yoga while 3 year old is at home with the babysitter. We usually go out to lunch and sometimes shopping. This afternoon we will go to Bloomingdale's. My son takes a nap from 3-5 pm. Husband is home by 6. I start cooking around 6 pm. Groceries are delivered. We eat out a lot. After dinner we go swimming or to the beach. I like to keep my schedule very loose. It's more relaxing that way. We have a small condo so cleaning is easy. It's not really something I think about. I clean here and there throughout the day. |
Anonymous
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I am impressed anyone gets anything done before school. Who watches the children???
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Anonymous
How many kids do you have in your small condo? |
Anonymous
1 |
Anonymous
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Mornings are for making breakfast and getting kids ready and out the door,
A lot of my day is spent shuffling kids to and from school, and appointments. I have 3 kids I have to get from various places so it takes up a good part of my day. During thebin between time we read book. In the evening I clean and short order cook everyone dinner. Schedule should even out as the kids get older and I will go back to some sort of work when youngest is in K, |
Anonymous
How is this at all helpful? Its like you're responding to another thread. |
Anonymous
Thanks all. I have done some researching. One more question I have is, after your kids come home and rest/snack/watch a show on tv do you push to do an activity like playground, riding bikes, etc before they have to complete homework and dinner is made on a day they don't have dance/soccer lessons? Or is that too much? |
Anonymous
Why don't you ask your children? |
Anonymous
Because I'm trying to get a sense of a regular schedule that we can loosely adhere to and am trying to find some general norms that work. |