Mother Requests Input from Other Moms

Dear Holly,
I am a former elementary school teacher with 3 pre-school age children at home. We're not homeschooling yet because they are too young but that is our plan for the future. I think I need to create order and "flow" in our day NOW so it will be easier to homeschool as our family grows. My ideal would be to create a schedule that has time for reading aloud, playing with Mom, playing without Mom, clean-up times and prayer times. I would also like to make a list of the activities we have in the house for the kids to pick from during certain play times (much like in a Kindergarten class where the children know that it is dress-up time, kitchen time, etc). I find that when it is time for Mom to make dinner and for the kids to play freely, they wander from room to room, pulling out all the toys and games, making a mess and not really playing with anything.

I would love to hear if anyone else has made a schedule like this. I'm trying to balance keeping a clean house (which is very important to me), spending plenty of quality time with the kids and still having my own time to work on projects, read, etc.

Labels: 4th P Parent, About a Rule of Life

posted by Holly at 6:48 PM 7 comments