How to organize household chores as a family
How to get and manage a home so that all family members rest and feel comfortable at home? The answer is: smart way, because it is the best way for the word home to denote shelter, comfort, security and love, which reduces stress and increases family satisfaction.
Mary Hunt, president of Home Advantaje Plus, a company founded in the United States where courses are offered to learn techniques and skills that professionalize the home, explains that "the entire strategy is based on the fact that work at home is cyclical and, therefore, can be planned, delegated, organized, directed and To learn to professionalize it reduces stress and the beneficial results for health impact on the productivity of each person in their job.Most of the assistants are women, but there are 20 percent of men who want to learn to family life is more pleasant. " Hunt has written a guide that gives a series of tips for making a smart home. Some of these ideas are the following:
Ideas to organize household chores in your home
1. Discover your personal style and that of your spouse both in the decoration and in the organization. Talk about how everyone likes to have a house, what worries and stresses them. Then, divide the household chores.
2. Talk also with your children what it is that makes you more nervous when you get home, what stresses you the most.
3. Control perfectionism on the one hand and neglect on the other.
4. Have a positive attitude toward household chores and Discover the fun side, at least, more reassuring.
5. Set realistic goals, without wanting to do everything right now, because not everything is urgent. The secret is not in the amount of things we have to do or the size of the house, but the environment we want to create.
6. At the beginning of each month, you can make a list of household chores necessary during that time: the purchase every 15 days, the appointment of the doctor, buy sheets, fix something broken etc.
7. Each member of the family has to have a task and be aware that the tranquility and balance of the home depends on them and their responsibility.
8. To do those tasks, everyone has to establish their own routine, so that the mother or father does not have to continually repeat: "You have to do this."
9. It is important to keep things prepared the night before, to avoid the rush of the morning, before leaving home: the clothes that one is going to put on, the books, the papers of the work, the keys in the same place, the snack of the children, etc, that everyone does the same.
10. Avoid those phone calls that interrupt some important household task, such as the time it is planned to discuss homework with the children. Leave a message on the answering machine to be called later.
11. A routine schedule for afternoons at home, It is good advice to avoid stress.
Ideas for a healthy and balanced nutrition for the family
- Make a weekly menu together, biweekly or monthly, balanced and healthy in which everything is eaten.
- At the time of preparing the food, you have to organize yourself: what days you arrive later at home, what is the right time to cook a new meal, etc. If you have guests, think a week in advance what you need to buy, how you are going to decorate the table, and that is going to offer food. Do not leave it for the last day.
- Lunch or dinner with the family It is one of the moments where peace and tranquility must reign. It is not good to repeat every day to children who feel good, eat well and eat everything. Dinner at the same time and all together. It is a very important appointment.
Ideas for organizing cleaning, ironing and arranging
1. Make a list of "things" too that is cleaned daily (bathrooms for example) and also weekly, biweekly or monthly. Each one has his order and his task. For example, on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays iron; once a month, wash the curtains; Mondays cleaning the house thoroughly etc.
2. Accustom your children to take their ironed clothes, Order them in your closet and clean your shoes.
3. Search also for the best day, the best afternoon or the best time to fix the damage of the home: the shelf that has fallen, the box to put on, the torn pants. One creative way is that during that day or that afternoon, everyone has something to fix.
Marta Santín
In collaboration with: Mª Ángeles Burguera
