How Can you Establish Balance Between Your Kids and Your Job?

Does your day start before you even peel yourself out of bed?  Do you feel like you are running on empty every night?  Do you fall asleep before your head even h its the pillow?  How can you balance kids and parenting even though this recession is asking people to do more work for the same pay?

It is important to keep your job in a time when even some of the strongest companies are teetering on bankruptcy.  The job market is as small as Honey I Shrunk The Kids.  However, parenting is the most important job you will ever have.  It is vitally important for your kids to see you manage your life and balance it.  It is important for your kids to see that even though life has challenges, you tackle them by finding solutions.  Here are 3 crucial solutions:

Set Ground Rules at home and at the office.  Talk with your boss and explain that you are willing to work evenings, weekends, in exchange for scheduling presets with your family.  Sit down and talk with your family and give them a realistic picture of your job and the idea that sometimes you will need to work extra hours.

Learn to Delegate.  You cannot do it all, no matter how much you want to.  There are things that family members can do at home that will make a big difference for you.  the family can help with chores.  Children who do chores learn responsibility and also get a great lesson in learning how to be grateful.

Know When to Go for Outside Help.  Set yourself free from feeling that getting outside help is a poor reflection on you.  There are many nontraditional ways to get extra support without breaking your budget.  There are teen mother's helpers.  There are laundry services.  You can pick and choose which essential clothes need to be professionally laundered and save the cost of dry cleaning, some even wash and dry by the pound and at bulk is pretty inexpensive.

Make family time a priority no matter how little time you have.  When your family feels important, they are more cooperative, organized and peaceful.  When your family feels neglected, ignored and stressed, it makes for a stressful life.  When you set specific times of fun only with family, it gives everyone a time to look forward to and eases tensions in between those times.

Prosper!
Coach Lynn