11 Effective Tips for Mothers Who Work From Home

It is Mom’s ‘down-time’ nowadays. Adding to having many tasks, deadlines, alerts of emails, meetings, and other issues with their faces buried in laptops, they are responsible for personal life as well.

Being a mother, a wife, and a working woman at the same time is very hard. It’s hard to work from home with a child who holds on to your leg, chores waiting for you, laundry staring at you while working, and over distractions. 

If you can’t balance between work and home, you may spend your time being only a mom or being only a working woman. Balancing is very challenging.

Here’s are the most effective tips for work-from-home mothers.

1. Create A Quiet Workspace

Without a designated home-work-desk in a calm place, you will be distracted with the dust on the TV that needs to be cleaned, the dishes that need to be washed, the children’s’ endless distractions, …etc.

So set a workspace to motivate your brain that it is work time now and keep some disturbances away.

2. Get Up Early

Getting up early is essential! You have a lot that can be done before everyone’s foot hit the floor and the phones start ringing. It will be hard and tiring but try to wake up at 5 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.; You’ll enjoy the 3 hours of more productivity before the little kids wake up and turn on the distraction mode.

3. Set A Work Productivity Schedule and Plan For Interruptions

Set a schedule to outline when you are most productive to work on the most important things that need high energy and a high level of concentration to think clearly.

Avoid working on important things when you don’t have enough power to avoid making mistakes. You’ll consume much more time of the next working day fixing these mistakes, and you’ll face that problem of “procrastination.”

You will not be able to turn off all sources of distraction, so plan for them. Give yourself more time; if a task will take half an hour, schedule it on taking an hour. This margin will help you avoid being exhausted. Defining all the distractions will help you find solutions to stay productive and creative.

4. Set Realistic Goals

Be realistic. Don’t overload yourself with being a perfectionist. You can’t have a sparkling clean house, an empty sink, quiet kids in a peaceful home, and well-accomplished work at the same time. It is on Pinterest only!

5. Don’t Delay and Be ready for Multitasking

Delaying the task of enjoying self-time to watch a favorite movie or surfing the internet is very easy. Nothing is more comfortable than slowing things when you are your boss. Yet, think: if you have a deadline on Tuesday, why start the work on Monday and put yourself in a marathon with time?

Create a schedule with your daily goals to keep everything organized.

Be ready for multitasking; as a mom, you have to learn “multitasking” skills. Know how to multitask and when to multitask. It’s essential to achieve a work-life balance while working from home.

6. Mute the Network, Apps, and Phone Distractions

Turn off the blinking and beeping to stop getting distracted by a notification from your phone or computer all day. So you can avoid being stressed because of that feeling of having a lot to be done.

7. Set Time Limits and Dedicate a Family Time

Don’t accept doing any work after your workday ends. Set boundaries to spend time engaging with your child and take more rest for the coming new day. You have to stop that time of ” work at home mom” to enjoy your personal life.

Dedicate time to your family; Don’t stick to your computer doing work all day. Limit the use of cell phones and social media platforms when it’s time for your family- stop distractions from being a mom.

8. Teach Your Child Self-entertainment

Whenever your child is entertained with his toys, puzzles, books, or cartoon movies, you will overcome that mom guilt feeling when you tend to do anything related to work.

It will also keep your child busy and give you some free time to send emails, set plans, etc.

9. Ask for Help and Build a Social Support Network

Don’t feel shy to ask for help from anyone. If your family is near, you can ask them to help with the children or chores.

Your husband can be a great supporter; you can leave your child with him so that you could have time to accomplish some work.

Even your child can give you a hand in the daily chores. Assign him tasks to take a rest from your household burdens.

Build a social support network; You can get in touch with other work-from-home moms, collect money, and hire a babysitter to watch all your children for few hours so that you could do more work productively with no distractions.

10. Arrange Fun Family Activities

Go to family-friendly places, such as the zoo, malls, parks, or swimming pools. Arrange for family gatherings with your family extended members by inviting them to a football game or a barbeque.

Take a walk with your family. Leave work behind your back and do all things that will refresh you.

Although It’s hard to be focused on your work while you are raising a kid (or several) who needs you for everything, this can recharge your energy to deal with the significant challenges that you face every day in life.

11. Don’t Forget to Love Yourself.

Don’t forget to spend time on yourself. Take a walk, go swimming, or go to your favorite salon to have a new haircut or anything that lets you feel the change.

Without rejuvenation, you will not be able to spend all your day as a working woman or a stay at home mom.

Take a rest! You’ll be astonished by how you feel much better and motivated to take the challenge of the next days.

Plan a routine for your child; By setting up a routine, you teach him how to stay productive, discipline, and accomplish tasks on time. Create a daily calendar with a list of things that need to be completed.

When you feel frustrated or disappointed, remember that you are a superwoman who works professionally and teaches your child how to work hard and be responsible. At the end of every day, celebrate what you accomplished and be proud of yourself.

Hopefully, you have learned some new tips to handle work from home while having a little kid. It’s not easy at all, but at least it can be done in a way that doesn’t make you go nuts.

 If you have any tips that work for you, let us know in the comments below!