Time
management for parents is very essential and binding. Kids are small and innocent;
they just want our time. Our presence makes them happy that we can easily see
on their face when we come to home from work or close our laptops. Time
management will help us save lot of time and allow to spend quality time our
kids. These tips could be appropriate for all the parent who want to attain
time management in life. Try to achieve your time management goal by bringing
balance and simplicity in your daily lives. Do not follow strict scheduling to
achieve time management.
Benefits of giving time to your child
Quality time spend
together will create very healthy lovable bond between you and your kid.
Better
understanding of his likes and dislikes, when you are more close to your child.
Spending time with
your child will be helpful for your child’s holistic development.
Analyse your daily schedule first step for
time management
Monitor yourself
daily to know where you are spending your time throughout the day. This
analysis and its reading you can use to manage your time. These readings will
help you understand that you are spending some hours daily on tasks which are
not necessary or could be done later on.
Categorize your tasks to achieve time management
Task can be categorize
in below three types.
·
Should be done immediately
·
Could be done tomorrow or later in the week
·
Time Consuming and ongoing.
This
categorization will help you prioritize your tasks. You will do limited, urgent
and important tasks daily and will save some more time.
Learn to prioritize your tasks for time
management
We should be able
to work on prioritizing tasks. If you have 3-4 tasks coming your way we should
be able to identify and prioritize them according to their severity and
urgency. For instance, one can always give priority to do drawing with your
child instead of checking personal emails.
How to manage your priorities for time
management
Often you will
feel frustrated when you spend too much time on unimportant activities which
makes no sense like arranging house, dusting, Facebook and others in result of which important things in your
life are being neglected. You are
the one who could determine the goals and activities that are most important in
your life. Take some time to brainstorm and to finalize things which are
important and set priority on all things. Things which are on highest priority
start working on that. From here onwards you will start to gain control over
your time and your life.
Time management make you organized teach
your child same
Plan and complete all your activities on
time. Keep all important daily used things in place so that when you need them you will not
spend time in searching where they are. Keep things reachable like list of
important phone numbers, uniform, shoes, class list, rain and cold gear, toys,
things for daily school bag, baby gear, snacks, napkins, colouring books,
stationery, and stamps. You can use baskets to store these things intact.
Multitasking is part of time management
Multitasking could
help you save lot of time. You can use that saved time to spend with your
child. You need to identify tasks which you can do along with another task.
Recruit
someone for small works to achieve time management
You can save your time which you spend doing small
stuff in house. Like sanity, laundry, kitchen & dinning, cleaning, grocery. You will
save lot of time which you can share it with your child.
Use Technology
·
You can pay bills on-line when you are working
along with your child on his homework.
·
Keep phone on speaker, use earphone, Bluetooth
and do your household tasks along with it.
·
Tasks Reminder will help you in time management
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Buy gifts and other household items from Web
sites.
·
You can do research on product online and
directly go to store to buy it. This smart way will save lot of time for you.
·
Grocery shopping usually takes lot of time. To
save time make list of items you need to buy. This will not only make shopping
quicker, but also ensure that you don’t forget anything.
Time management do Plan your daily schedule
Get up in the
morning. Think on the activities which you are going to do on the same day.
Plan them, allocate time for each task and execute them on time. Always keep
slot for your kids in your daily schedule.
Avoid extra workload to reach time management goal
Using above tips you are saving
time, by the same time your workload is increasing which result in no added
time given to your child. This is not fair with your child. You have chosen
these tips to save time for your child not for extra work. You have to be
honest and clear why you are saving your time.
Learn to say no whenever and
wherever it is appropriate.
Time management generally needs
common sense. You should have your priorities at set in good order, you are
good to go.
Have fun. Best of luck. Happy Parenting!!!!
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