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Time Management Tip 15: Sharing The Workload With Your Spouse

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How to effectively share the workload with your spouse

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Those of us who are married have the advantage of another adult in the household who can help us get it all done.

Sharing the workload with your spouse takes practice and patience and lots of discussion.

Here are a few things my husband and I have learned in our 17 years of marriage about taking turns with parenting responsibilities.

1.Take a few moments at the end of each week to sit down and discuss the up coming week. Have the calender in hand, mark down hours for out of home work, note kids activities and appointments for the family.

2. Look at what blocks of time are left, and figure out how to divide them best between the two of you. For instance since I am the early bird, I usually get the mornings, my night owl husband usually takes the free evenings.

3. Decide who is cooking meals during open window times, and what they want to make and list  it on the menu.

4.  Set  guidelines about what is expected to get done when one is in charge. For example, in our home the one taking charge of the homeschooling mornings makes sure all books are marked.

5. Be Flexible.Your spouse is not you and therefore is going to handle things differently than you. It matters more that the job got done than how it got done.

6. Leave at least one window a week open to connect with each other. This helps you to stay on the same page.

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Introduction: 31 Days Of Time Saving Tips For The Work-At-Home Mom

Day One: Perform a Time Audit

Day Two: Night Owl Or Morning Bird?

Day Three: Where are Your Largest Windows?

Day Four: Making the Most of Small Windows

Day Five: Daily To Do Lists

Day Six: Maximizing The To Do List

Day Seven: Say No

Day Eight: Eliminate Poor Yes Choices

Day Nine: Put Your Time Offenders On a Budget

Day Ten: Combine Joy

Day Eleven: Making Effective Use of Waiting Time

Day Twelve: Making Use of Travel Time

Day Thirteen: Making The Most of Mom Taxi in Waiting Time

Day Fourteen: Take Time to Rest a Few Moments Each Day

Day Fifteen: Tag-Team (you are here)

Day Sixteen: Involve the Kids

Day Seventeen: Mechanical Slaves

Day Eighteen: Outside Help

Day Nineteen: Timer Magic

Day Twenty: Take a Rest Day

Day Twenty One: Less Stuff, Less Mess, More Time

Day Twenty Two: Hold A Family Work Bee

Day Twenty Three: Keep Gatherings Simple

Day Twenty Four: Saving Time in The Kitchen

Day Twenty Five: The Self Cleaning Home

Day Twenty Six: Streamlining Your Homeschooling day

Day Twenty Seven: Create an I Did It List

Day Twenty Eight: Create a Simple Cleaning Routine

Day Twenty Nine: Create To Go Bags

Day Thirty: Making Minimum Standards

Day Thirty One: Treat Life Like a Marathon Not a Sprint

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