Time Management for Parents

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If you feel overwhelmed with taking care of work, kids, and your partner or other family member (like an aging parent), you may feel like you're about to drop the balls you're juggling. Sometimes, it helps to take stock of what you actually need to do on a daily basis. If you're so overwhelmed you don't know where to turn, then perhaps a class or other resources to help you learn how to manage your projects is necessary.

Fortunately, many classes and workshops as well as full-blown resources are available online for the overworked parent. Most of these classes focus on scheduling, task prioritization, and setting boundaries. Those skills alone can help reduce stress and improve productivity. But where can you find these tools?

COMMUNITY CENTERS: Many local community centers offer parenting workshops that may include time management components. Check the programs and make sure you're not signing up for too many classes for skills you already have. 

PARENTING ORGANIZATIONS: Either locally, regionally, or nationally, you might be able to find parenting organizations that offer online workshops on time management for parents. For instance, The 
  • Love and Logic Institute is dedicated to making parenting and teaching fun and rewarding, instead of stressful and chaotic. They are a 47-year-old company that provides practical tools and techniques that help adults achieve respectful, healthy relationships with their children. Their workshops for parents aren't free, but they're very reasonable. Few of these webinars deal with time management, but they focus on problems that can eat up a parent's time. 
  • Another organization, Strategic Parenting, is offering free registration for their "Thrive in 2025: Empowered Parents Summit", which offers secrets to effective discipline, parental self-care, building strong family bonds, addressing screen time, and helping your kids thrive. 
ONLINE ACADEMIES: The prices range from ridiculously inexpensive to a little pinch in the pocketbook. You need to decide how much you're willing to spend to make your life work better. These classes usually are much more focused.
ONLINE RESOURCES: Finally, online resources exist that can offer skillsets to families that want to wing it on their own:
  • Time Management for Homeschool Parents: This page, provided by the site Teach Them Diligently, provides tools for the homeschool parent.
  • Time Management for Parents, provided by Teacher to Go, offers a couple of ideas for parents who have kids in public school. 
  • PTS Coaching also provides a number of blog entries that deal with parenting and time management. 
  • Last, but not least, there's a way for the kids to get involved, too. This resource, Time Management Online Classes for Kids & Teens, is offered by Outschool, and provides live video chat classes and other resources that can help your children tune in to the same page as you. 
Be sure to spend a llittle downtime conducting your own research on how to manage your time. Only you can know what will work for you and your family. Good luck!

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