Freelance mom: how to help yourself work?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Just recently, society considered motherhood to be something like an indefinite leave: know, bake yourself pies, and agukai with a lovely crumb. Thank God, this stereotype has been destroyed recently. It turned out that crumbs are not always adorable, and there is much more housework than it once seemed from the glossy pages of magazines.

And the world has also learned that young mothers want not only diapers and talk about vaccinations, but also career self-realization. It is difficult to combine home, child and work, but it is possible - even more so if you know a couple of life hacks and if there are assistants in the form of grandmothers and gadgets.

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Entertainers

Child development (and child development occurs primarily through play) in terms of importance is almost at the same level as basic needs, such as nutrition or sleep. Speaking of sleep: working while the heir is asleep is not always a good idea, because mom also needs to rest (and this is not a whim, but a necessity that the leading coaches insist on). Making it a habit to lie down with a book or take a nap during the day's nap will help you work more efficiently.

Second: adopt one of the key rules of time management, according to which you can work in short periods of time, but at the same time as efficiently as possible. If you managed to carve out half an hour or an hour for work, do not allow yourself to be distracted for a second - no social networks or thinking about lunch menus, just work!

Everyone knows the golden law: five minutes of silence in the nursery is equal to an hour of cleaning. Get ahead of the curve and let your child play pigs for fun (but, importantly, manageable).

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For example, put a basin of water on a stool in the bathtub, give the heir paints and small toys, and offer to arrange the sea. On another day, you can let play with soap suds, washing all the dolls (or tanks).

Another child can be carried away by cutting out pictures from old magazines with children's scissors - without waiting for the heir to cut something more important into snowflakes.

Alternate these activities throughout the week - so they don't have time to become boring. On weekends, you can prepare a plan for the week and select the necessary equipment. Well-known child development specialists Zhenya Katz and Elena Danilova offer great ideas.

Audiobooks will provide invaluable help to a working mother. They distract children of all ages for a long time and do not spoil their eyes. Pay attention to the discs of the studio "Ardis" - they have a very wide and high-quality selection of children's works of any genre (from funny fairy tales by Andrey Usachev to children's stories about Alekseev's war and the usual "Mishka's porridge").

Many people tuck their smartphones into their little hands to get an hour of silence. We all understand perfectly well that this option is not very useful from a health point of view. However, modern kids still cannot do without screens, which means that potential harm must be minimized. There are great solutions for this.

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First, there are gadgets with an eye protection function. Secondly, some smartphones have a fingerprint sensor (which means that a locked phone will not allow a child to uncontrollably climb into Youtube, but it will still be able to play audio). And some devices also have a capacious battery, increased performance and do not freeze when many applications are running at the same time - this means that mom can work both from the sandbox and under the recording of "Ryaba Chickens" performed by Tatiana Peltzer.

One of the smartphones that combines all the listed functions is Huawei nova 2i … You can also work on it with your knuckles (this is important when you are all in mashed potatoes!).

Observers

It is a well-known fact: a mother is more likely to be woken up by a crying baby than by a truck driving into the house, but if silence is necessary for work, and you close tightly in the kitchen, then radio and video baby monitors will be a salvation. Modern models work at a distance of half a kilometer (or even further), they hold the charge for almost a day, and they also allow you to talk with the baby (you can, for example, remotely sing his favorite lullaby so that he, making sure that his mother is nearby, sleeps more Little). The baby monitor was recognized as one of the best models combining these characteristics in 2017 RA300SP from company Ramili baby … As for the video nannies, then the championship went to MBP36S from Motorola … It is loved for its sensible image, night mode, built-in thermometer and reasonable price. In addition, many parents are impressed by the presence of the same feedback from the baby.

But this is not all of the world of "observing" gadgets. There is also a radio kit on the market! Equipped with a breathing, temperature and activity sensor body Mimo baby monitor starter kit will allow, among other things, to control the quality of the baby's rest - he will record the phases of sleep, according to which conclusions can be drawn.

And yet, some psychologists advise not to rush to the first call of the child. Of course, this is a personal matter for each parent, but the same famous "educator" Pamela Druckerman wrote in her sensational book "French children don't spit food" that the French give a child a few minutes to calm down on their own. Over time, this habit transforms into the ability to fall asleep or entertain yourself on your own. A much needed skill.

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Controllers

Timer All-in-One Timer Itzbeen useful so that mom is not too fond of her work. Well, if something terrible happened (oh, horror, she was still carried away!), Then in accordance with the parameters set in advance, the timer will remind you to change the diaper, put to bed or feed (moreover, it will tell mothers of breastfed babies and what kind of breast to feed) this time). In addition, the timer can reproduce soothing sounds, and, if necessary, gently wake up a sleeping baby.

To the exit

Leaving the house for more than an hour, experienced mothers take with them an unchanged food set: dryers, fruit (banana) and some kind of drink.

As practice shows, drying sometimes entertains kids better than the next series of "Fixies", so if you go to negotiations, do not forget such a gentleman's set (besides, children love to eat in unfamiliar places, so they will not distract you from their work, work!). And let the bag always contain paper and pencils - the child can at least draw.

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There are other games "on the knee": you can buy exercise books "on the way out" or draw several tasks for the child yourself and offer them to complete them (for example, a labyrinth from which you need to find the right way out, or two similar pictures where you have to look for differences - such tasks are easy to invent and reproduce). Also, the child can practice in games with napkins - from them, for example, you can make a tablecloth on the table. Everyone is in business.

Two extremely useful gadgets for those who have to travel with a child - spoon Squirt Baby and an ergonomic backpack. The first is a successful combination of a spoon and a bottle into which you can put food at home. As a result, an afternoon snack (or even lunch) will always be with you - in your own dishes.

An ergonomic backpack is the smartest alternative to a baby sling, which is not always convenient to wrap, and a "kangaroo" (recall, orthopedists unanimously urge parents not to use this option, as it is decisively harmful to the formation of the spine). In an ergonomic backpack, the baby will be able to sleep, snuggling up to his mother (and, in the meantime, let her participate in her adult negotiations). One of the most successful manufacturers this year, mothers are called Baby bjorn - here is the quality of the material (the straps will definitely be tasted by the baby), and the durability, and ease of use. Well, cute prints, that's important for moms too!