Monday, May 2, 2011

Time Management


Time management has been really difficult for me this year.  I am a mother of 3 children.  I have a 9-year old boy, a 11-year old boy, and a 13-year old girl.  I have a husband that travels, which means I am a single mother a lot of the time.  My children are very involved in athletics, which means I am the typical “American Minivan Carpool Mom”.  There is not an evening that we have less than 2 activities, and some evenings we have 5 events to get to.  In there we have to fit in dinner, homework, practicing piano, and studying.  Every night I check my kids’ math homework to make sure they are understanding the concepts being taught in the classroom.  If there are errors, I have them go back and find and fix the errors.  After all of my mother, wife, house, shopping, carpooling, and bedtime responsibilities are done every night, I sit down to do my grading and planning.  I do my school work from  8:00pm to 11:30pm, which puts my typical bedtime between 11:30pm and 12:00am.  By Friday night I am exhausted.  I have to figure out a way find a more reasonable bedtime.  My goal next year is to find a better time management plan.  This is my 3rd year of doing this, and I will be burned out very soon at this rate.

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