Time management
11 articles
Managing Work-Life Balance When Using Daycare
Working parents often feel torn between work and family. The fantasy of perfectly balanced time in each domain is just that—a fantasy. Real work-life...
Work-Life Balance for Parents of Young Children
"Work-life balance" suggests a perfect equilibrium: eight hours work, eight hours family, eight hours sleep. But parenting young children and working...
Why Traditional Time Management Doesn't Work With Kids
At some point most parents try this: they buy a planner, time-block their week, schedule their important tasks, and feel a flicker of optimism that th...
Time Management for Parents of Young Children
The honest version of time management with young children is that you don't manage time so much as bargain with it. Some hours are yours; most aren't....
Restoring Energy When You Have 20 Minutes, Not Two Hours
The most useless advice given to parents of young children is "take time for yourself" — usually in two-hour blocks that don't exist. The good news is...
How Morning Habits Shape the Entire Day
The way your morning goes largely determines how the rest of your day unfolds. If you start in a rush, already behind and frustrated, that stress carr...
Morning Routines With a Baby or Toddler
The morning is when small kids and adult schedules collide hardest. A toddler does not understand that you have a 9 a.m. meeting, and a baby needs wha...
Family Life With Twins: Daily Challenges
Parents of singletons sometimes assume parenting twins is just "twice as much" parenting. It isn't, in either direction — it's a different shape of wo...
Single Parenting and Daily Organization
The mental load of single parenting is the part that's most invisible from the outside and most exhausting from the inside. You're not just doing the...
How to Organize a Family Day
A day with young children that hasn't been thought about at all tends to drift: no one is sure who's feeding whom and when, the nap gets missed becaus...
Organizing Household Life With Children
Households with young children are messier than households without them. This isn't a management problem to be solved—it's a feature of the environmen...