😎 Tackle the Week Ahead
Today we share the Working Parents' Survival Guide and help you get the week planned out - from work schedules to kids' activities.
📰 The Topic
Here’s the thing. The past couple of weeks have been a rough ride. And as we all wonder when or how this is all going to work itself out, we worry more about how we’re going to survive the days that feel like weeks and the weeks that feel like years.
I’d say this is less about all of us emerging perfectly unscathed - 100% productive on the work front, kids perfectly educated and homes kept immaculately.
This is about survival.
It’s about getting out of our sprint pace and settling into our marathon pace. 🏃🏻♀️
So how are we going to do it? By sharing the load. Socially, emotionally, literally.
It’s been incredible to see how parents everywhere are banding together to share resources and ideas and help. The sheer amount of positivity and generosity has been a beaming beacon of silver lining.
But we also need an easy way to implement it into our lives. To have access to a central store of information and ideas. To connect with the people in our neighborhood and our communities to help us with the gaps we’ll have.
So this week, two resources:
🦸🏻♀️Working Parent Survival Guide - a central wiki of the resources you need - from all the prep lists to the glorious educational apps and videos that give us 30min of peace at a time. We’ll continue to add to this every day.
📆Schedule Like a Pro - ever since we shared this guide, we’ve been getting feedback on how much it’s been helping overwhelmed parents create a plan and just execute on it during the week (and to be clear, execution is less about to the minute, and more about having guidelines). So this Sunday, I encourage every one of you to try it out:
👩🏽💻Write down both work schedules and must have work times; figure out work/childcare shifts for the week
🎨Choose/create kids’ schedule and fill in with actual activity ideas
🥣Pick the household duties/chores you’ll do, divvy them up and schedule them (daily meals, dishes, kid’s grooming, tidying)
Ok that’s it - you’re armed for the week. It’s going to be grueling (my husband and I are deep into shift bartering mode right now) but with shared resources and some proactive planning, we can make this week better than last.
It’s a low bar, but I’ll take it 😉.
Let’s do this 💪🏽.
🧰 The Tools.
🧐 Worth Reading
Coronavirus: The Hammer and The Dance - in-depth read to understand the options, the math and scenarios in the months ahead.
I Refuse to Run a Coronavirus Homeschool - a refreshing POV that every minute of our lives won’t need to be the most productive. Just sane.
‘I Feel Like I Have Five Jobs’: Moms Navigate the Pandemic - the reality facing millions of working parents.