Back-To-School Routines
It’s that exciting Back-to-School time of year. This involves a change of schedules, an influx of paperwork, and a lot of time management for you, your children, and your family as a whole. At this time of year, routines are very important.
Three Back-to-School Routines to Help with Time Management
1. Delegating a backpack routine to each child will give your children responsibility for their own stuff and take the work off of your shoulders. Emptying their backpacks every afternoon of all their past school work, notes from school or teachers and homework will give you the opportunity to evaluate the situation on a regular basis. Talk your kids through what needs to be done with each item and then move forward to get it done. It’s like a daily team meeting at work. Keep it short, then move on.
2. Increased after-school activities like sports practices and music lessons will make a dinner routine challenging to say the least. But this is why it is very important. The ability to stay in touch with your kids and your spouse by checking in at the dinner table will keep you connected and aware of what is going on. Set a goal of the number of days you will all dine together and plan your meals for these days. You’ll be more likely to achieve your goal with a little planning.
3. A bedtime routine will make the evenings run smoothly and everyone will be better rested each morning. Once the routine is established everyone will know what is expected. Kids often thrive on routines and at that time of the day, you’ll appreciate things running smoothly.
As your family’s manager, it’s important to set individualized routines that will work for you. Don’t worry about what everyone else is doing. If it works for you – it works!
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Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.
Janet Schiesl
Janet has been organizing since 2005. She is a Certified Professional Organizer and the owner of Basic Organization.
She loves using her background as a space planner to challenge her clients to look at their space differently. She leads the team in large projects and works one-on-one with clients to help the process move quickly and comfortably. Call her crazy, but she loves to work with paper, to purge what is not needed and to create filing systems that work for each individual client.
Janet is a Past Board Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and a Past President of the Washington DC Chapter of NAPO were she has been named Organizer of the Year and Volunteer of the Year.