Time Management

Managing your time well is one of the biggest challenges of the at-home parent. You need to be there for your family, but there's a lot to get done too. You might have a work at home job, a home business, or you might have a lot of activities to do with your kids. You might even have a combination of all three, and more to do besides. Today's stay at home mom doesn't just sit around on the couch watching soap operas and eating bon bons - there's a lot more to her life and she's a busy woman.

The Basics of Time Management
How do you get started managing your time well? A little planning goes a long way.

What’s the Big Picture?
Are you paying attention to the big picture when deciding how to manage your time? It can really help if you remember both your long term and short term goals.

Controlling the Time You Spend on the Internet
The Internet has made amazing things possible for work at home parents, but it's also a place that makes it incredibly easy to waste time.

Don’t Let Time Management Stress You Out
You try to manage your time so that you have less stress, but what if the tactics you're using are making you feel more stressed?

Managing Your Paperwork
Disorganized paperwork is a great source of wasted time. Taking a little time to come up with a filing system can really help your day.

Time Management for Stay at Home Parents
Staying at home isn't as easy as some would have you believe. Here are some tips to cope.

Learning Time Management
Managing your time well is not something that happens overnight. You have to figure out what works for you and how to apply it.

Time Management Blog Posts

What’s Really Important to You?
Being a stay at home or work at home parent means sacrifice for most people. It is often a statement that you value your family above money or your career. Not always, but often. But even in your day to day life you need to think about what is most important to you. If your children [...]

Do You Forget Family Time?
Working at home has always been a major time commitment for me, and I’ll readily admit that sometimes I struggle with balancing it with family time. How do you make sure you have enough of it? A part of it comes from planning. If you don’t have a schedule it can be very easy to overdo, [...]

Are You Overcomplicating Your Home Business Schedule?
Great time management skills are vital to running a successful home business. If you aren’t paying attention to how you use your time, you are probably wasting a lot of it. But if you overdo it you can make things worse. There are some basic things you should do to manage your time well when working on [...]

One Car Update
Thought it was time for another update since it has been a few weeks since I talked about how things are going with just one car. It’s actually still going quite well. With my son’s upcoming birthday I can think of some times when I would love to be able to run errands more freely, but [...]

What’s Hardest About Working at Home?
When you’re just starting out working at home or even if you’ve been doing it for a while, you need to consider the downsides to working at home. It’s not all fun. I’m fortunate in that things are working out well for me as a work at home mom, but there are times that I realize [...]

Making the Time for Good Eating Habits in the Morning
One of the advantages of being an at-home parent is how much more time you have to do things with your family. There’s no rushing about trying to get everyone out the door first thing in the morning, clean and neat and well fed. Yeah, right. Except when school’s in session. In my opinion, in many ways [...]

Working at Home Gets Hectic Sometimes
Working at home is a dream situation for many people. The ability to be there for your family, avoid that miserable commute, be your own boss… lots of people would love that situation. What many fail to think about, however, is what it really takes to work at home. Being at home often gets hectic. The [...]

My First eBook
I finally did it! I wrote a free ebook for the subscribers to my newsletter. It’s called “Keeping the Kids Busy.” You can probably guess what it’s about. This is one of those things I’ve been meaning to do for ages and I finally got around to finishing it. I’ve had a partially complete version sitting for [...]

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