In our quest to make both ends meet as parents, sometimes we rarely have time for the family most especially the children, meeting deadlines in the office, attending functions, running to meet a target, creating reports, filing report and all sorts of activities. They can be so demanding, overwhelming, burdensome, challenging and even sometimes leads to fatigue. The kids can’t enjoy their dinner with daddy and mummy, they can’t have their social life because mummy and daddy are not around to take them out. It can be so frustrating and so really challenging. That is why I want to share with us some powerful tips that we can implement in balancing parenting and work life. How do you put everything in the right perspective, how do you
create time for the family and yet the work is not being affected?

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1. Be Organized: One of the dangers of not being organized is, it makes anybody to place demand on your time. Being organized helps you to understand what is important and what is urgent, and what is urgent but not important. The same boiling water that hardens the egg will soften the carrot. So therefore, it is not about how busy we are it is about the individual. Doing first thing first, putting things in the right order. Most of the thing that wears us out sometimes is not hard work it is wrong work. It is important that we embrace the power of organization.

How can you be organized?

Plan the day before the day: A man who cannot successfully plan a day will never be able to plan his life. Use the weekend to plan the week ahead, use your Saturdays and Sundays to plan to whole week. Write out every task you wish to accomplish for the week and allot different time to them. If you can take care of the seconds the minutes will take care of itself. There are so many computer applications that can do that for you, you can use Microsoft outlook or Google Calendar.

Assign the assignment: You can’t do it all, let friends, associates and companions help you out in some of your task. That you are called a foreman doesn’t mean you should do the work of four men. Delegate but don’t abdicate. With or without you the will would still go around. Always remember “The world can live without the best”

2. Prioritize: Set priority for your activity. You can’t be everywhere at the same time, you are not omnipresent. Not all events, functions, gatherings, birthday, burial conference or seminar requires your presence, if your check can play your role there is no point to be there. Making yourself inaccessible even when you are assessable increases your relevance, it is not been proud it is prestige. There is power in scarcity. If you have to be everywhere at every time you will lose the value and respect for your time.

3. Teach the kids basic responsibilities: There is no such thing as a perfect parent. So therefore, there will never be such thing as perfect kid. Teaching our children basic responsibilities can save us a lot of time and energy. Teaching them how to put on their socks, brush their teeth, comb their hair, answer the home phone, memorize daddy and mummy phone number, how to put on their shoes, how to flush the toilet, how to clean their bums and once in a while let them choose the cloth they like to put on. What does that teaches them? It teaches them the power of choice and makes them to embrace the consequences of their action. You might not be able to make them happy all the time, you might not be there for them all the time but you can definitely raise a responsible kid by making them to embrace basic responsibilities. Correct them where necessary, discipline them if need be, When a parent loses the early confrontations with a child, the later conflicts become harder to win.

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