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5 Signs Your A Workaholic Stay At Home Mom:
- You rush through simple, bonding, loving, nurturing and unplanned special moments with your kids to get to the “planned activity”.
- Your kids always ask you, “what’s wrong”? They can sense you don’t have time for them, you have to get to the next “task”.
- No more healthy meals, you just don’t have time!
- Your exhausted, worn out, burnt out and have become the “yelling mom” because you just can’t get everything done.
- Your priority has become doing laundry, cleaning, planning meals, going on field trips, sitting on the PTA, teaching sunday school…BLAH, BLAH, BLAH (am I right?).
6 Stress Free “Mom” Tips:
- DO Less Be More: Stop doing as much and just be with your kids, they are simply hungry for your presence.
- Be Good Enough: Mom’s with the never ending “task list” usually create unrealistic and stressful homes. It’s ok to just be “good enough”.
- Set Your Work Hours: It’s easy for mom’s to log in 12 to 15 hours a day, set your work hours and be done.
- Have “ME” Time: You have to set aside time for just you…work out, soak in the hot springs (can you tell I live in Colorado), go to T.J. Maxx or get a pedicure
- Time With Your Father: You have to set aside time with your Heavenly Father, if your not getting this right, nothing else is going to work.
- Just Say No: Say no to a holiday party, school fundraiser or cooking dinner (my wife is next to me, she told me to write that
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Are you a workaholic mom? Which of these “6 Stress Free Mom Tips” do you need to implement today?
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Good tips, my friend!
Off to go shop now! (not really)
How do you get your kids to understand that your workday is over if you try to set “work hours?”
Need to set work hours…thanks, good stuff!
Great stuff. Do you think dads should read this too? I admit my to do lost is long bit of I don’t then who will? Overwhelmed!
Love it – except for the ‘work hours’ part. You don’t really ‘turn off’ or stop working as a mom when you have little ones! Do you have suggestions?
I don’t think Chris is suggesting you turn off mommy work hours…just hours that keep us from engaging our children and enjoying stress-free time with them. It’s time out from housework and to-do lists and time on for being present.
Am definately not a workaholic stay at home mum. It does not seem the most productive way to work. I have set perimeters when I work and when I don’t. If my kids are in the house when I am working – in an emergency – they play or engross themselves in something. I am lucky my boys play nicely together.
Thank you for posting this! I am a working mom 10 months of the year and a stay at home mom 2 months a year. (Teaching schedule) Your post reminds me to just relax and enjoy being with my girls in the summer. Considering my “other job” just ended and my “best job” is just beginning, your post is very timely!
It’s hard to put away the to-do list. I try to schedule my day around my family and get my work done before I pick up my daughter from school. I can’t always do this but that is my goal and I make it most of the time. I also do stuff while she’s doing homework cause she’s at the age that she doesn’t need my help on it anymore. I feel guilty because my house isn’t as clean as I wish it were and I’m not as organized as I wish but I know that I’m doing the best thing. Our kids grow up so fast and then this time with them is gone forever. After my daughter, my last of 2 at home, grows up, then I can organize and clean. Until then I’m going to put the time to good use and teach her about God and spend time with her. My most important job!!