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This board is for every mom who feels like she does more than her share of housekeeping and childcare. Share the load with your spouse and kids. Even more importantly, raise kids who don't expect moms to do all this work for everyone else.
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4 Steps To Doing Less Cleaning
Step 3 is a doozy, but the others are straightforward. If you make it to the end of all 4 steps, you’ll have less cleaning to do!
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School Volunteer
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The Invisible
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8 Ways Dads Can Volunteer at School This Year
Figuring out how to fit in volunteer time at school can be hard on working parents. Here are some ideas for volunteer jobs needed at every school that are good for dads and moms who work outside the home. The new school year offers a great opportunity to sign up to volunteer!
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Parent Night
Do Better
Simple Ideas
Working Moms
At School
Teachers! Encourage Dads to Volunteer This Year
Research shows that kids do better when dads are more involved in education, and teachers are in a terrific position to help get more dads into classrooms - here are 6 simple ideas!
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Childcare
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7 Benefits to Dads Volunteering at School
Volunteering at school is hidden labor that moms absorb, but there are many reasons why dads volunteering is hugely beneficial to dads AND kids. The new school year offers a great opportunity for dads to sign up to volunteer!
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Back To School Goals
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School Goals
Volunteer Work
Back to School Goals: Dads Volunteering!
Dads can help lighten the load of volunteer work that's currently done mostly by women while also engaging in their child’s education in an incredibly meaningful way that benefits dads and kids! Click through to learn more about those benefits and get ideas for volunteer jobs that are well-suited to dads.
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Work Planning
Back To School Tips
Mental Load
School Forms
Back To School Hacks
Kids Head
School Tips
Picture Day
School Hacks
Back to School Medical Appointments
As kids head back to school, talk to your spouse about sharing the work of handling medical appointments now and during the school year. Consider dividing up these appointments by provider and having the parent in charge handle the full mental load including tracking when appointments are needed, scheduling and attending them, filing insurance claims, managing prescriptions, and doing any follow-up appointments.
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Back To School Tips For Parents
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Share the School-Related Parenting Tasks
There's a surprising amount of hidden labor in supporting your kids' education. I made a worksheet that helps you talk through how to share this work and best support your kids. You can print this worksheet for free or edit it to meet your needs.
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After School Checklist
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Screen Time Rules
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Start Of School
School Supplies Shopping
Spelling Practice
Online Calendar
Share the Load: Back to School Tip for Parents
Find your school’s calendar for the upcoming school year and get all the start of school dates, meet the teacher events, holidays, half days, teacher conference days, etc. onto your calendar. I highly recommend using a shared online calendar for the whole family!
Set up a joint email address that forwards every kid-related email to both parents, then use this joint email address on every single kid-related form – at school, at doctor’s offices, when signing up for activities – everywhere, always. Click through to learn how! Middle School Parent Communication, Volunteer Application, Why Do Parents Hate Their Children, Email Account, Parent Contact, Extra Curricular
Middle School Parent Communication
Volunteer Application
Why Do Parents Hate Their Children
Email Account
Parent Contact
Extra Curricular
Share the Load: Back To School Tip for Parents
Set up a joint email address that forwards every kid-related email to both parents, then use this joint email address on every single kid-related form – at school, at doctor’s offices, when signing up for activities – everywhere, always. Click through to learn how!
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Important Life Skills
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Learn To Cook
Share the Load: Everyone Cooks!
In 80% of families, mom does the cooking. Get your kids and your spouse involved by rotating jobs. Everyone 12 and up can take turns being the head chef! Your kids will learn important life skills to help them live independently and eat heathier meals. This is also excellent family bonding time. Click through for free printables!
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Weekly Menu Planning
School Food
Weekly Menu
Not Me
Menu Planning
Planning Ahead
The Fly
Grocery Shopping
Dinner Time
Menu Planning with the Whole Family
Some people are good at coming up with meals on the fly, or they like to shop multiple times a week. I’m a planner by nature, but the thing that REALLY makes me plan meals ahead of time is because it’s the only way I know of to ensure that the cooking and grocery shopping don’t all fall on my shoulders. A plan that is created along with others in the family with an agreed-on division of labor has worked wonders for sharing the load with my husband and even occasionally with my kids.
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Parenting Schedule Shared
Earning Screen Time For Kids
Screen Time Rules Printable
Safety Plan For Kids Mental Health
Free Range Parenting
Camping Planning
Extracurricular Activities
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How to Share the Load of Kids' Extracurricular Activities
If your kids' lives are filled with extracurricular activities, you may feel overwhelmed and not know why. It turns out each of those activities adds a bunch of work to parents' plates. Try splitting up the activities with your spouse to better share the load. You can also work on sharing this work with your kids - it's great mental load practice for them too!
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Work It
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Email Address
How Parents Can Support Education Equally
The interactions with your kids' schools adds up to a bunch of hidden labor that falls very heavily on moms. Education is critically important, and you can show your kids how much it matters by having both parents be involved. Start by setting up a joint email address for all school-related communication. Click through for more tips.
The work of handling kid appointments is time-consuming and goes way beyond attending the appointment. Try having each parent take on half the providers and do everything end-to-end: find the provider, make the appointments, attend them, pay for them, do insurance claims, take care of prescriptions and handle follow-up appointments. Babysitting Forms For Parents, Teen Phone Contract Free Printable, Babysitting Sign Up Sheets, Behaviour Checklist Special Needs, How Much Should You Charge For Babysitting, Everything Ends, Take Care
Babysitting Forms For Parents
Teen Phone Contract Free Printable
Babysitting Sign Up Sheets
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Everything Ends
Take Care
Parents: Divide Up the Kid Appointments
The work of handling kid appointments is time-consuming and goes way beyond attending the appointment. Try having each parent take on half the providers and do everything end-to-end: find the provider, make the appointments, attend them, pay for them, do insurance claims, take care of prescriptions and handle follow-up appointments.
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Trade Off
Free Pictures
Money Management
Trip Planning
Family Travel
How to Share Year-Round Tasks: A Worksheet
Assign an owner for each task by putting their initials in the checkbox. Have that person completely own the task. You may want to trade off monthly or yearly, or split up payees for bills. Use the blank line to clarify.