Balancing Homeschooling, Working at Home and Everything Else
Most work at home moms want to know, “How do I do it all?!” Add to that the demands (and joys) of homeschooling your children and it’s obvious that there’s a lot on that plate. What often gets lost on this plate is self-care. When does mom exercise? Does she feed herself when she prepares food for the rest of the family, or when doing a cooking lesson with her children? If she’s like many moms I know she often plans on better self-care and then realizes at 10:00PM that she didn’t quite get to it AGAIN.
A basic axiom of problem solving is to start with identifying the problem. It appears we’ve begun to do that in the paragraph above. A simply stated definition of the problem might be: It is very difficult to find time in the day for self-care when a mom (or dad) is homeschooling and working at home and attending to the other needs of the household. For each of you, it is beneficial to modify this definition to make it more specific to your own situation and needs. It’s also very beneficial to state why it’s important to find a solution to the defined problem. In this case we can say: Studies have shown that people who exercise regularly and nourish themselves well with nutritious food, are healthier, have more stamina, are more positive, vital and energetic. Parents who work at home and educate their children at home need as much energy as they can muster.
In addition, the latest studies about the brain show that there are optimum brain wave frequencies for creativity and efficiency. Those frequencies are difficult to maintain if one is tired, and stressed. Play(things that are done purely for enjoyment), exercise and down-time all contribute to creating a more optimum environment for the brain to function at it’s best. When that happens one’s productivity in business soars, one’s patience with children improves and one’s creativity with homeschooling ideas comes more easily.
We’ve now outlined the problem and the reason why a solutions is really important. Now we need to develop the solution. Spend the next few days developing your own problem statement on this topic, and the reason a solution is important for you and your family. Check back in a few days and we will begin the process of discovering how to make healthy changes.
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