Planning With Kids is about productivity for families. Getting organised at home so you can spend more time on the good and fun bits of family life.
I have put together this list of posts to give you a quick guide through just some of the key tips, templates and processes that we have used to help simplify and add fun to our family life.
1. Menu Planning:
Stress free meal time is essential when you have a busy family. Meal planning allows you to simplify the eating and shopping process in one hit.
- Why Menu Plan?
- Menu Planning Process
- Bulk Monthly Menu Planning
- How To Menu Plan For A Month In 35 Minutes!
- Menu Planner FAQ
- Menu Plan Monthly Template (including kid’s input table)
2. Night Time Preparation / Smooth Mornings:
Going to bed organised, means that mornings will run so much smoother and allow it to be an enjoyable as opposed to a hectic time of the day.
3. Children’s Timetables and School Activities:
Creating visual schedules for the kids, so they know what they need to have when, allows them to become accountable for their own organisation.
Once you have children in preschool and school there are a number of ways that you can support their learning and manage their activities:
- 10 Online Games For Learning The Alphabet
- Practicing Magic (Sight Words)
- 10 Online Games To Practice Sight (Magic) Words
- 10 Homework Tips For Parents
- 10 Reading Comprehension Questions For Junior Primary
- 10 Tips For Managing After School Activities
- Managing School Paperwork
4. Children’s Jobs:
Allocating age appropriate tasks to the kids, not only reduces mum and dad’s work loads, but begins teaching them responsibility.
- Kid’s Morning Tasks Examples
- Children’s Jobs List (Scroll to the end of this post for the list.)
- 10 Steps To Get Children Involved In Housework
5. Family Relationships:
Communication is the key to keeping the relationships in the family in a healthy shape. Here are some wayss we manage the relationships in our family:
- Family Meetings
- 10 Circuit Breakers To Prevent Those Family Melt Down Moments!
- 10 Strategies To Gain Co-Operation From A Toddler
- Characteristics of Two (and a half) Year Old Behavior
- Characteristics of Three (and a half) Year Old Behavior
6. Play:
Play is such an essential ingredient of a happy family. Play can take many different forms and you will find ideas in the post listed:
- Building Play Into The Every Day
- 10 Activities To Do At Home With The Kids
- 10 Children’s Activities To Do With The Kids When It Is Hot!
7. Mum:
It is essential for mum to have a balance of activities in her life, to ensure that you can best take care of your family. Planning time for your work, rest and play means it is far more likely to happen.
- Mums Work Plan
- Balancing Family Life and Online Activities
- 10 Tips For Coping With A Larger Family
- The Typical Day Of A Stay At Home Mum
- Family Budget
If you are up for further reading you can also check out the popular posts:
If you have any questions, comments or tips you would like to share, feel free to leave them in the comment section below or you can email me at nicole@planningwithkids.com.
Wishing you simplicity and happy times for your family!
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LOVE this Nicole! Am off to share…
Thanks for this summary Nicole – all the types of posts that really attracted me to your blog!
What timing – I feel a bit like I might have found the edge of the woods so this post is perfect for inspiring me to try my hand at compartmentalising the chaos. What do you charge for a private consultation????
Fantastic collection of posts! I may not have lots of things documented on paper, but you are a woman after my own heart. I am loving your practical, common-sense approach and the way you verbalise what floats about in my head all the time.
Loved your 10 tips for organised school mornings. We leave home at 8am too…I have a visual/text list of what must be done in the morning for the kids and the 9yo still checks it every day just to make sure. Have had versions of that list since the oldest one was in preschool. We also have critical markers for time. The kids have to be up,dressed, bed made and breakfast on the go by 7.30am or there is stress and crankiness.
awesome. will have to read through all this. especially the planning food (as I’ve recently moved and not in the ‘groove’ yet. and mornings. oh i’m NOT good in the mornings. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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