Time Management for Work From Home Moms Who Homeschool

Last Updated on July 1, 2022 by Brie

What goes wrong with time management as a work-from-home mom? Especially while you are trying to juggle it all, the work, school, and homeschooling? I feel as if most days, I have no idea where the time goes, and I am on some rabbit wheel of life—bouncing from one rabbit wheel to the next. At the beginning of the month, it was decided that some things needed to change as I started a new job. So I began keeping track of my time a little better.

More from this series:

• How it Began in November
• Time Management for Work from Home Moms
• Time Management for Single Moms
• Time Management for Homeschool Moms

Android Simple Time Tracker for Work From Home Moms

For time management as a single mom, I use the android simple time trackers app. The app is so simple to use. I set up cards for the things that I want to track in my life. I have something like:

• Work
• Homeschool
• College
• Playtime
• Cleaning
• Self-care/workout tasks
• Sleeping

After setting up the cards, I have to tap one whenever I start an activity and then tap it when I’m done. It automatically tracks my time, and I can see how much time I spend each week doing what.

Time Management for Work From Home Moms:

Fortunately, or unfortunately, I am still in the “trial period” for my next gig, which leaves me not having very much paid work to do. I say fortunately because I have several other areas of my life that are adding up to a full-time job or more each week.

One thing I did in October was run myself ragged and down. I was so tired that the last week of October, I was sleeping between 10-12 hours and barely getting anything done because of the “push” I had been making up for the rest of the month leading up to it.

If it can be avoided, I don’t want to do that again.

I noticed this first whole week of utilizing time management tools that I had guilt about spending too much time on specific areas of my life and not enough on others.

However, it wasn’t all bad because I felt as if my time was justified. I could see where I spent it and what I needed to improve on. Which was a relief as opposed to the jumbled mess my time had become.

What Time Management Looks Like for a Work from Home Mom:

My top five activities for this week are shown alongside the pie chart of them.

That little pie chart amuses me.

1. Starting from the top, I have asleep. Goodness, I have slept more this week than I should, and I hate that. However, my excuse is I am probably still recuperating.
2. My next highest portion is college, sitting at a bit over 20 hours, or equivalent to that of a “part-time job.” It feels like that sometimes, and it puts me in a foul mood.
3. Our homeschool routine is the next most significant portion of my week, sitting again at over 20 hours. Q the child on the set. All that pink is for her. Again I didn’t imagine our homeschool would take this long each week. But it has lengthened over time with the amount of convincing I have to do.
4. The next bit is mother-daughter playtime, sitting at just over 13 hours. Sadly, no one wanted this one to be more and will have to improve upon that. Anyhow, we have played with the hamster so much this week I now have dreams we are playing with it.
5. Finally, the blue is the hygiene and workout routine. The self cars stuff. It consists of:

• Bath times
• Make up routines
• Hair
• Going for short walks
• Etc.

Extra Details

There are a couple of other colors up there, like the greens, purples, and dark blues, which are all different categories of my job. This week was a slow week. I did that on purpose because I knew it would be a more challenging week for college, and I have been so tired. However, I was able to clock in at over 9 hours this week. Yeah, not saying much, I know.

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