Comments on: Home Management while Home Schooling http://generationtocome.com/2006/10/home-management-while-home-schooling/ equipping and encouraging parents in discipling their children Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:15:10 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dana http://generationtocome.com/2006/10/home-management-while-home-schooling/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Dana Fri, 20 Oct 2006 02:09:21 +0000 http://generationtocome.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/home-management-while-home-schooling/#comment-8 Planning meals has definitely helped us with time and money management. So has placing a large basket in each room. When the clutter gets to me, I tell the kids to throw everything in the basket. Every other day, we get one of the baskets and go through the house placing everything back where it belongs. I wish my husband could grasp letting go of perfection. I've never been particularly good at all this balancing housework stuff, but it gets discouraging when I spend the day trying to get things neat for him and it never is quite good enough. He seems to be realizing that perfection is probably not a reasonable expectation...and has seen how much time he spends running in circles trying to maintain the "perfect" house when I am gone for a bit even though the kids are pretty good and like to help. And he isn't trying to homeschool on top of it : ) But when he is already feeling grumpy from being up all hours with the railroad, it always comes out as some complaint about the house. Enough whining from me...I didn't mean to go on quite that much : ) Planning meals has definitely helped us with time and money management. So has placing a large basket in each room. When the clutter gets to me, I tell the kids to throw everything in the basket. Every other day, we get one of the baskets and go through the house placing everything back where it belongs.

I wish my husband could grasp letting go of perfection. I’ve never been particularly good at all this balancing housework stuff, but it gets discouraging when I spend the day trying to get things neat for him and it never is quite good enough.

He seems to be realizing that perfection is probably not a reasonable expectation…and has seen how much time he spends running in circles trying to maintain the “perfect” house when I am gone for a bit even though the kids are pretty good and like to help. And he isn’t trying to homeschool on top of it : ) But when he is already feeling grumpy from being up all hours with the railroad, it always comes out as some complaint about the house.

Enough whining from me…I didn’t mean to go on quite that much : )

]]> By: Aurelia http://generationtocome.com/2006/10/home-management-while-home-schooling/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Aurelia Sat, 14 Oct 2006 04:44:32 +0000 http://generationtocome.wordpress.com/2006/10/13/home-management-while-home-schooling/#comment-7 I love your “Room for the Week” Idea! I am going to steal this idea and use it here with my children. Great blog you have here and the article that you linked to is really helpful. I love your “Room for the Week” Idea! I am going to steal this idea and use it here with my children.

Great blog you have here and the article that you linked to is really helpful.

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