“Create a Schedule.”
I have read so many books on scheduling that I could probably teach a university course on the subject. Just kidding. I will definitely leave that to the scheduling professionals. But in all seriousness, I go back and forth between having every minute of the day scheduled out and just winging it and seeing what the day has in store. Anybody else have these moments?
As a mom in my 9th year of homeschooling (pre-school totally counts), I have been so focused on my scheduling that I have had schedules broken down into 15 and 30-minute increments all the way up to bedtime. The children knew when it was time to: play with a specific sibling, have reading time, engage in kindness time (making cards to send to people), eat lunch, fold laundry, clean up, have online learning time, etc. For the few weeks that the schedule was in place, life was good, and the house stayed reasonably orderly. I felt like we finally had a good thing going.