10 tips for organizing with two children

 If raising one child is complicated, educating and caring for two can be an impossible mission: there are thousands of tasks to complete and it seems like there are not enough hours in the day.

 However, with a little organization, you can find time for everything.

10 tips for organizing with two children

1: Distribute the tasks. 

With two small children, it is very difficult to run the house alone. Therefore, any help from your partner is important. Apart from considerably reducing the work, it will help him or her to value what you do.

2. Express your needs. 

When our second child is born, especially if they are born for a short time, you normally have everything you need for a baby: the crib, the clothes, the stuffed animals... If grandparents and friends want to make you happy, it is best if they give you a gift. take the baby for a walk, iron a basket of clothes, or offer yourself for any other pending task.

3. Establish routines. 

Shopping once a week is much more efficient than doing it every day. Who has fixed days to cook pasta, pizza, rice, and omelette, does not have to think every day about what he will prepare. This way you will find time to enjoy very important moments like cuddling with the newborn on the couch or walking through the park with the little one.

4. Getaways are essential. 

Once a week, Mom or Dad pounds. You can take the opportunity to go with your best friend to the movies or take a bike ride through the park.

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5. Couple meetings.

It is very important that you sit down together to agree on who is in charge of each task and try to solve the problems that arise: the eldest has a jealous streak, how can we help him? Who calls daycares to see if there are spaces available? Where do we go on vacation and who is in charge of organizing them? Who has more pressure at work and needs to be able to dedicate more time to professional projects? If you both know the tasks that need to be done and you share the work, you will form a great team.

6. A space for love.

Go out to dinner, go to the movies, or to a party. The important thing is that you both feel like it and that it helps you disconnect from your daily routine. Some topics of conversation will be prohibited: children, housework, finances, and work.

7. Paid help. 

You can have very clear agreements regarding the cleaning of the kitchen and adjust them promptly. Another option is to hire a cleaning woman and a babysitter to help you with the tasks. Although other investments will have to wait, family peace increases considerably.

Pampering for the little ones

8. Highlight the advantages of being the oldest. 

Children are very proud of everything they already know and can do. For them it is a pride to be the eldest in the house: they can go with their grandmother to the zoo but the baby has to stay at home. Therefore, we have to praise them for the independence they have achieved.

9. Allow the oldest to become a baby at times. 

Whoever gets a little brother at 18 months automatically becomes the older brother with all the corresponding demands: eating alone, waiting patiently until the baby doesn't need mom's care. At one and a half years old, he is still very small and his needs must be met. While the baby sleeps, you should cuddle him and play with him.

10. Respect different needs. 

Two young children can go to the same daycare, and later to the same swimming course, the same soccer club, and the same dance class. Although it simplifies family organization a lot, it is not necessarily the best way to encourage children's different abilities and preferences. The little one feels frustrated because the older one knows how to do everything better. And the oldest gets angry because he always has to wait for the little one.