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How to manage time?

Parents who work from home / stay at home how do you manage your time and have structure to your day?

  • We live in Australia but we're Americans and I go to school online now through our county back in Illinois. I'm not a stay at home mom but I feel like one sometimes because I stay at home most of the day now, and I take care of my baby sister and help with the 2 other kids. How do you manage your time when you don't have the structure of the school / work day? I used to be great at it but now I'm burned out, and my sister's needs have changed. She used to sleep a lot more but now she doesn't need to as much so I have to do more stuff with her. I really want her to be happy and to do well, so I'm trying my best but she really does take a lot of time and energy. It's really hard to concentrate with her in the room now because she just babbles. She doesn't talk yet but she like makes noises ALL the time. I'm taking AP Chemistry, APUSH and AP Calculus and that's a lot of work and it's VERY hard to concentrate on it with her. I don't know how people who work at home can do this! How do you not go insane? How do you pay attention to your work but keep your kids happy? How can I manage my time better and get on a better schedule? Because of the time zone differences I'm often up at really weird hours because that's when people from school are on Skype. I'm not just chatting with them for fun, lots of times it's about school stuff. I don't get enough sleep so I'm tired in the day and I try to take a nap when the baby does but then it throws me off more. I end up just playing around cause I feel overwhelmed and my brain won't concentrate. How do you handle working from home, taking care of the kids and doing stuff around the house? Like I do 3 loads of laundry a day and empty the dishwasher twice. It doesnt seem like a lot but it really is. How do you do it?

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    Why are you watching your sister for only when your parents are working. I am stay home mom with three kids with all three of special needs children. I have 9 year old with speech problems and ADHD.. Also 6 year old son who be 7 next month with mild hearing loss and speech delay. Then a 2 year old daughter with feeding issues speech delay and medical problems. My 6 year old son in school half day and my 9 year full day for 3 grader.. And my toddler with me all day. I would try get into a some kind of routine. We just moved in a new area and state and town I would say. My boyfriend is looking for a job soon I think to get us extra money.. He isn't my 3 children father but he being a father figure to my kids. I get up with my two boys to get them ready for school. More likely I can take them to school. If they get there before 8 am they can get breakfast at school. my 2 year old also gets up. I mostly change her diaper and let her play while the boys are getting ready for school. Then after the boys are off to school I feed my daughter her breakfast usually this time she be hungry. Then I let her play and watch some preschool shows. This when I be cleaning or doing laundry. then afternoon be picking up my 6 year old son. then I be feeding both of them lunch. I try to let my daughter play outside with her brother to get some fresh air. Then she would be napping. lately I have my 6 year old layed down for quiet time and I lay down to relax.. I don't have set routine because I have doctor appointments that would mess up our routine.

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Routine, that's how I do it. Get up in the morning, change my babies (2 months), feed them, put them back down, do breakfast for my big kids (14 & 5), get them off to school. Do the dishes, tidy up the house and hang out the laundry I put on before going to bed the night before. Babies wake up, change them, feed them, turn the stereo on play some music and leave my babies in the lounge watching the trees out the window and that's when I do the noisy cleaning like vacuuming, more laundry, etc, then back to my babies to put them back down. After that my house is clean, my laundry is done, and I'm free to do what I like until my babies wake up again for lunch, then I'm focused on them until they go down for their afternoon nap, and that's when I usually have a nap. Get yourself and the kids into routine, it helps a lot. Of course, you must be flexible because as everyone knows, routine can go flying out the window when kids are involved.

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