by Andrew John…
One of the best thing a mother can do is to stay home with kids. The bad thing is that most families now require both husband and wife to work in order to keep the family budget intact. It’s not surprising that working at home is becoming more and more popular among young mothers willing to stay close to their children while still working. They hope working at home to be the solution to all their problems. Truth is, it can solve them, but not until one catches the basics of time management.

Your Work Schedule

Creating a work schedule for each day separately is a great way to organize your work and other duties with only minimal thinking. Without a schedule you will forget about things every so often and as the result, you will become more and more stressed. How to make an effective work-at-home mom schedule? See the tips below.

1) Never forget about your husband! If you concentrate on work and children alone, this may have a severe negative effect on your marriage. Allow some evening and night every week for your spouse alone. 2) Use different colors to mark work-, children- and spouse-related activities every day. It will let you check real time how much time you spend on them. 3) Involve children in household issues. Ask them to help you clean, wash dishes and cook. This can give you an extra hour every day - at least!

Tip #2: Multitask

Any work-at-home mother soon finds out that she is up to her eyes at work. However, working at home gives you also the possibility to greatly reduce the amount of time needed to do everything. It is multi-tasking - doing two or three things at the same time. For example, you can respond to emails while doing laundry or helping your children doing their homework while waiting for a phone call. Remember: every hour less at work is an hour more for your family.

How to multitask in practice? It’s simple. For instance, you can review emails while cooking lunch for the kids. It’ll give you 10-15 minutes extra every day. You can also do the cleaning while being on the phone. Saves between 10 and 30 minutes every day. You can also make a list of things to do when you’re out, so you don’t forget something when you’re out. Depending on the kind of your business, this may save you between 15 minutes to 5-6 hours a week.

Another great idea for work-at-home moms is to employ a timer. When the time for you work is over, simply cease working and create schedule for tomorrow adding to it all tasks you failed to do today. While you may feel that it only postpones your problems, this allows you to avoid spending nights at work and keep you in prime condition all the time. In the long run such attitude always pays off.

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