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Super Mum Hacks to Stay Productive While At Home

Cancelled plans,

Kids at home,

and

Mum needs to work and be left alone… so how do you balance everything when everyone is at home and YOU never get left alone????

Here are some super mum hacks that will help you out and ones that are favourites of BigW too.

Maths class

Schools out for the Easter holidays, but it is still important to establish a routine, not just for working from home, but also for your kids. Keeping the kids educated and entertained during this challenging time is key and reminding them that daily chores are still on the agenda is important. So grab a Dry Erase Board, some Monopoly money and some tasty snacks and get those kiddies working for their maths class – trading chores for treats!

After paying for snacks with Monopoly money the kids will be experts in: counting change, knowing if they have enough for a certain snack and how much money they have left.

If you are after a good way to help kids learn more about Money then Spriggy is helpful to teach kids about financial literacy. My kids love their Spriggy cards and I’m sure you will too!

Art class

Whether you’re a rookie or a WFH veteran, creating structure and ensuring productivity is important. Setting up space in your home where you exclusively work and commit to working from each day, will make you more productive. So now you have found somewhere quiet, with a door and the least amount of distractions (including mess), grab some tape and large pieces of chalk and get the kid’s creative flares sparked with a DIY art class.

Get some great deals on Art & craft supplies for kids

Keeping kids occupied with art or a creative project will keep them happy and allow you to get some work done too.

More Creative Ideas For Kids:

Create Painted Rocks
Amazing Smelling Raspberry Playdough
Make Salt Dough Ornaments – You can create all sorts of shapes and creations
Decorate mugs and plates with Sharpies
Decorate Handkerchiefs/shirts with Stained Sharpies

English class

It is important to plan your daily breaks when WFH. With kids needing to be constantly entertained, fed and watered – even Mum needs a break sometimes. Sitting the kids in front of the TV whilst you take some time out never felt so educational (and entertaining) – simply switch on the mute button and chuck on some subtitles. Welcome to Mum’s English class kids!

Physical Education

While Super Mum’s navigate the new world of isolation and working alongside their kids 24/7, it’s still important to keep moving and remain active. While you may love going for a run or setting up some time for a yoga sesh, watch the kids stay active and learn how to ride a bike, sharing a little #fitspo-lation to other Mum’s these holidays.

My kids just love their Vuly Trampoline and have fun Boucin’ Around: A Fun Way to Keep Your Kids Occupied These Holidays

These are great ways to help you get work done and at the same time entertain and help kids learn.

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Isolation Done Right

You asked for funny stories and now I’m giving you what you asked for…you might now wish for something different.

Last week I went shopping with the kids, we bought some essentials and then came straight home. I unpacked the shopping and then got dinner ready. A few days went by and I thought it might be nice to take all three kids to the local oval. They were driving me mad and I thought if they had some exercise and room to run around it might make things easier, and mean that bedtime might happen quickly due to everyone being tired…well I could live in hope.

So I went looking for my car keys to take my feral bunch to the park. I couldn’t find them. I looked and looked and still no keys.

I asked my kids to help but their looking skills are not great. They currently walk into a room stand there and stare. Then yell about how it is so hard to look for something and why do they have to help when it’s not even their keys!

One of the other kids walked into another room and just touched a few things on my desk and then walked away saying…no it’s not there.

It was all too hard to help mummy so they raced outside to play on the trampoline and to ignore my pleas for help.

I know it sounds funny but due to not having to be anywhere, no deadlines, no school and so on, I didn’t immediately notice that I had lost my keys.

Once I figured out they were lost I did a bit of a freakout, but then quickly calmed down. They can’t be outside the house, I got home, locked the car and brought in the shopping. So at the very least, the keys were somewhere in the house and I had no idea where.

I started wondering where the keys were.

I looked where I thought I put them and they were nowhere to be found.

Part of me thought the youngest had put them in the bin and by the time I had this thought the garbage had already been collected…so if this was indeed true they were gone by now.

I then started cleaning up parts of the house, making sure to look under the lounge, piles of unfolded clothes, toys and more.

Still no keys!

It had been about a week I think, not sure as I am losing days due to not having to be anywhere and staying at home. I still thought they were where I put them originally.

I had an idea they had fallen off the cabinet where we put the fruit. Yesterday I decided to move the cabinet and finally saw some keys looking at me. I reached and finally had them in my hand, and thank goodness it was my keys. They had been found.

Insert huge happy dance!

Now my keys are super safe, I put them up high to make sure that little kids cannot decide to place them anywhere around the house.

If this had happened at any other point in my life this would have been a huge disaster, however, due to being at home due to COVID-19, it didn’t matter much. Although I wanted to find them to ensure I had them from a safety standpoint. If hubby was out and I was home with the kids and something happened, at least I would have the keys to the car to go somewhere if it was urgent.

It did get me thinking…if you want people to stay home just take away their keys.

Simple really, Isolation done right.

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