Managing your career as a mom can be challenging. It takes being a mom with a career to truly understand how difficult it is trying to juggle a full-time job when you are also a parent. The family life seems to be one that requires a lot of ‘labour of love’, in between everything else, which too can feel like a full-time job.
Most full-time mothers can tell you, that the feelings of guilt and stress tends to come along frequently because of the divided attention between the work life and the family life. On the other hand, moms who have been juggling this lifestyle long enough can tell you that it does get easier when you learn to shift your focus and dwell on what matters the most.
Shifting your focus does not necessarily remove the amount of effort you have to put into making both these worlds work, but how you think and approach everything surely is where lies the secret. For instance, rather than constantly thinking about how you’re not with your child while at work, choose to think about how your role at work is benefiting your family. Get thinking about good thoughts on the kind of lifestyle the job is providing your family, as well as the opportunities that you can afford them because of your career. The moms who have managed to gain success in both worlds have learnt to come to terms with their choices and handle their priorities as they come. With a few mindset shifts you can find fulfilment about your working mom lifestyle without losing your sanity.
We have put together these guilt-free tips and tricks for balancing a career and mother hood:
- Create an organised family calendar
Work through your family’s priorities and put time next to everything. Make a list of school and family events, make a chore chart for the kids, a list of school events, extracurricular activities, birthdays and such. That way you can always stay on top of your home schedule and that can help your mind be at ease while at work.
- Communicate with your employer
Try and be transparent in the office about your plan to balance your work life and home life in such a way that your employer understands that you are still able to get your work tasks done.
- Invest in quality child care
If your employer does not have child care facilities withing the workplace, find a nanny that you trust, a reputable day care centre or someone you trust to take care of your child during the hours that you are at work.
- Stay in touch with home during the day
Just to help ease the guilt, you can practice staying connected with your child during the day. If you’re a mom with younger kids, consider recording a fun singing video for them. If your child is older and you know you are most likely to miss and important school event, give them something special in the morning, like a cute little note or a good luck charm of some sort.
- Create fun and memorable family activities
During time away from work, create activities to do with the children so that even when you are not with them, the memories from those moments make them remember the feeling of having you around.
In a nutshell, it is best to focus on a plan, get organised, and find the right flow between your professional life and parenthood to help ease the feeling of being unstable in between the two worlds.
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