Kids activities Help to get organized - Continued

Paper Schedules: The art of keeping track of schedules of a piece of paper, a calendar, in a date book, or on a mini calendar is actually quite efficient, quick and depending on your own personal writing, easy to use as well.  Of course you do run the risk of losing your calendar that you keep with you at all times, but you can go back and make another copy of the home schedule without losing much time.  The paper schedule or calendar that you will carry with you is just that, another thing that you have to carry with you at all times.  From the car to your office, and back home again, your schedule keep you in touch with where your children are, where they need to be and when you have to be there.

If you have two, three or more children, often putting the date and time in different colors is going to keep your organized.  Take for example, one child has piano on Mondays and Wednesday while another has baseball on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.  Writing the time in blue for the one child, all the time, and another child in green, you will quickly know who has to be where and at one time, leaving you lots of room on the calendar to write other needed important events.

Your children depend on you being there for them, getting out to the field in time, to the recital as it starts, and for helping them with their homework on the days that they are home from school.  Knowing and keeping track of where your kids can be easy when you get in this simple habit of keeping a calendar with you, even during the slow activity months!  Giving your kids the power to contact you when they need you no matter where you are by giving them your schedule is going to bring families closer, even if they are only calling you at work to ask where the jelly is!