Calendars to better organize family time
If you want your family to have a good organization, then calendars will be your best allies!
For a family to be happy it will have to be well organized. Family life is becoming more and more complex; you have to be in many places, you have to do many tasks and children require a lot of time and attention. It is actually a good idea to have your life more organized so that that way everything is easier and less chaotic. In order lies the secret, so time and family resources can be managed. From the simplest to the most complicated, each family can find what will help them stay organized and focused on the family order.
But how can you better organize family time to have good results? Currently there are many strategies for family order, also online tools that can be very useful for you.
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CALENDAR ON GOOGLE
Did you know that there is a Google calendar that you can use to organize your life? Google Calendar has a simple interface and easy-to-use tools. You can see the calendar with different views (month, week, day) and you can share it with other people to synchronize agendas (ideal for organizing things with your partner).
You can create multiple individual calendars (for kids too) and then merge them all by importing public and private calendars into one. It will have different colors to differentiate one calendar from the other, but at a glance you will be able to see all the activities to be carried out on the same day. It also has a good interface for mobile devices. Google Calendar is free and is part of your general Google account.
FAMILY PLANNER
You can have a family planner for. Have it in sight at home. It can be a weekly paper planner that you can change every week with weekly view. The use would be similar to Google Calendar but written by hand.
For example, you can choose a color for each member of the family and put the corresponding activities to do for each one. We not only refer to tasks such as after-school activities, but also to activities that have to do, for example, with housework (who has to clean, sweep or mow the lawn every day).
EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW WHAT THEY HAVE TO DO AT ALL TIMES
For the family organization to be successful it is necessary that all family members are aware of the activities of the other members and thus have good control. Everyone will know what others have to do at every moment of the day. It is a way of knowing the availability that each one has and what must be done at all times.
It can be a general planning with the activities to be carried out with the hours indicated next to it, or make a schedule for each one and then merge them into one. It is a way of getting everyone to know what to do at all times, that the power struggles end. And that order helps to better structure family life and also the mental health of each of its members.
THERE MUST BE FLEXIBILITY
But for a good organization to exist, flexibility is essential as well. If the week is organized and there have to be changes, it is not necessary to enter into chaos. The changes are an opportunity to work on flexibility and improvisation as a family. Changes are sometimes good, and if everything doesn’t go as planned, there’s no need to panic. Circumstances are adapted to the context and things are followed in an established order.
Having family calendars will help children organize and manage their time in the healthiest way possible, a skill that will serve them for a lifetime. It is necessary to organize family life so that children learn that time must be managed in order to have time for everything, also for rest.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.