Hello everyone, I'm Seven Joy Mom~
Originally, I was an office worker, living early and returning late every day, because I continued to work after maternity leave, and my mother-in-law helped to bring the child until the age of 2.
This year, the child began to go to kindergarten at the age of 3, and the task of picking up the baby every day was handed over to the father-in-law (the mother-in-law went to another city to bring the children to the little uncle's family).
For me, I've never been a stay-at-home mom, and to be honest I don't quite understand the life arrangements and inner feelings of a stay-at-home mom.
Because of the epidemic, the company arranged for me to work from home, so this week I suddenly became a "full-time mother", the daily task is to pick up and drop off the children to school, responsible for making lunch and dinner, responsible for the children's living and so on.
Although it was not a long time, only a short week, I really felt it and had a lot to say.
I write this article to record it, share my own inner thoughts with everyone, and hope to bring some different thinking to you who are stay-at-home mothers.
My first day of work is scheduled
Let's talk about the schedule of my day at work:
Get up at 6:00 a.m
6:00-6:20 Washing
6:20-6:30 Eat (because the morning time is very tight, the father-in-law is responsible for getting up early to cook, I only set aside 10 minutes for myself to eat every day)
6:30-7:00 dress, wash, eat, drink milk for the child (the child is more clingy, be sure to wash her mother, so this time is very tense)
7:00-8:00 Drive to work (the company is farther away, driving 1 hour one way every day)
8:30-17:50 Work
17:40-19:00 Home from work
19:00-21:00 Eat, play with children, do housework, take a bath
21:00-10:00 Reading a book (this time is your own time, especially precious), sleeping
To sum up, the time of the day at work is calculated every day, especially the time in the morning is very tight, usually I will consider that there are special things happening, so I will set aside a little time for backup.
Each link is like an assembly line operation, and it is necessary to set its own time node, otherwise it will affect the normal steps of the next link.
"Stay-at-Home Mom" Week Schedule:
Last week I was working from home and the schedule for each day was as follows
6:30-7:00 a.m. Read a book
7:00-7:50 Dress, wash and eat for your child
7:50-8:00 Drop off your children to school
8:00-8:30 Groceries shopping home
8:00-11:30 Write articles and read books
11:30-13:00 Cooking, eating, doing housework (housework is done using free time)
13:00-14:00 Take a nap
14:00-15::10 Continue to write articles and read books
15:10-15:40 Ready to pick up the baby
15:40-17:00 Take the baby to the community to play a circle
17:00-19:00 Go home to cook and eat
19:00-21:00 Reading with the baby, telling stories, playing with toys, washing and sleeping
In general, the time to take the baby at home full-time is relatively generous, and I will have a lot of time to use, but at the same time, the time also passes very quickly, and if it is not used, I will feel that a lot of good time is wasted.
I have a lot to say
Putting aside the interference of the outside world, whether it is a working mother or a full-time mother, it is very difficult, and the daily schedule is very compact and busy.
If you happen to be a stay-at-home mom, I think I have a few suggestions to share with you:
Have a constant enterprising heart
Some stay-at-home moms think they'll be extremely lonely when they get home after sending their children to school every day.
Children go to school, husbands go to work, everyone is busy, and full-time mothers will be disturbed by outside information if they come home without good self-discipline.
For example, you might be lazily lying on the couch playing with your phone, chasing a TV series, and before you know it, the day will pass.
However, after such a long life, I will feel bored and bored.
No matter when mothers are in, they must have a heart that is constantly improving.
My own habit is to start every morning, use pen and paper to list the things to be done for the day (according to priorities), and finish the most important things first.
After doing one item, you can use the pen to tick it off, so that you will find that your rules are very clear and your time planning will be very regular.
Set yourself a small goal (which must be concrete and enforceable), such as reading 30 pages of books that day, writing an essay, cleaning the floor of each room, and so on.
After listing the goals for yourself, you must follow the plan to execute, at the end of the day you will find that you have basically completed the plan of the day unconsciously, you will slowly find a sense of achievement, and you will continue to improve.
Key things to focus on overcoming
There must be a first-and-last thing to do, and the different orders of doing things will also affect your final result.
For example, if you want to do housework but at the same time you want to look at your mobile phone, your heart will be very conflicted, so you tell yourself to play with your mobile phone for half an hour before doing housework.
The result of this is likely to be that you have been playing with your phone for 3 hours and have not done the housework yet.
Our daily work is focused and non-focused, and moms spend 80% of their time doing those important things, and this time is best scheduled to go early.
For example, I need to design the theme, content, framework, layout, etc. to write my own articles, and I will first arrange the writing of the article in the morning, and the housework will be arranged in the gap between breaks or after lunch, and the fragmented time can be used to do those unimportant things.
For a few hours in the morning, I will continue to do important things and the surrounding areas involved, such as continuous collection of materials and so on.
A large chunk of time to complete the key things, whenever this time you can complete at least 50% of the day's workload, this sense of achievement is self-evident, for the future of their own to do is very helpful.
Many stay-at-home mothers feel anxious and lonely, because the uncertainty of daily life is too great, which makes mothers feel a lot less secure.
But I would like to say that the sense of security is given to us by ourselves, and we cannot change the general environment, we can only try to change ourselves.
Social change is very fast, no matter where we are, what kind of work we are doing, we must have a certain sense of crisis and urgency, set some goals for ourselves and then dismantle, and strive to enrich our daily life, in this effort to improve ourselves, so that we can keep pace with society.
Give your child a good example, let your child see the struggle from the mother's body, keep in sync with the child, and your life can be more exciting!
I am Qiyue Mom, a mother of a three-year-old child, and I hope that some of my parenting experiences can be conveyed to you through the platform to provide a little help for your parenting road! You can follow me to learn and grow together!
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