You need to learn life hacks & parenting tips when you are a new mom. Keep your sanity intact with these mom hacks.
Being a mother is a full time job in itself. One in which you can’t fail. It is hard work and gets overwhelming at times. Motherhood is easy – said no one ever!
Every mom needs life hacks and parenting tips to keep the sanity intact. These Parenting tips for moms could help you to make your mom life a little easier, will help you manage time better. These mom hacks will also help you keep your house organized and not feel like you are in a war stricken place!
Life hacks & Parenting Tips for moms to keep your sanity intact – Mom Hacks
Mom Hacks to Manage Time
#1 Make a routine for everything
Kids like routines including infants. Keep things handy and prepped so that you are not looking for anything at the last time. A proper routine – feeding/changing/sleeping in case of infants will make your day smoother.
Prep the night before if you have a toddler or a pre-schooler. When your morning starts smoothly it is less likely that you will lose your sanity!
#2 Do your shopping online
Buy everything online and get them delivered at home. You save on traffic time, parking time, billing queue and fuel cost. Get kids stuff, clothes, diapers, food, and even your groceries online. If you can get the subscriptions that gives great deals like Amazon Prime or Flipkart Plus get that. They will save money and even give delivery free of charge.
#3 Do meal prep and use oven or slow cookers
If you have no help at home your best friends are slow cookers and ovens. Do meal prep for a week and keep them refrigerated. Use slow cookers and crockpots for cooking so that you don’t have to be constantly standing in the kitchen. Oven and microwaves also gets your food ready faster.
Life hacks to organize home
#1 De-clutter and simplify home
Best thing to do to keep your organized is simplify things, get movable furniture and de-clutter as much as possible. There are tons of baby products and furniture that you would want to get to make the nursery or baby’s room look Pinterest worthy. Most of these are unnecessary and the child will grow out of it in less than a year.
I bought a baby high chair worth 10K which could be used as a chair later when the child grown up. My son used it for 4 months max and he never liked being buckled up!! It is just lying there like a junk.
#2 Use Hidden Storage and organizing bags
kids have toys – tonnes of toys. Use organizing bags and hidden storage places to keep the toys organized. I use container boxes for Legos. Legos just get on my nerves. It is now on my son’s list of chores to put the Legos away in the respective boxes after he’s done playing
#3 Get your preschooler to clean up toys
I encourage my 4-year-old to clean up his own toys after he’s done playing. It is a good habit to teach. SO it’s his job to keep puzzle pieces in respective boxes. In your child’s room demarcate places for each activities – art supplies, puzzles, cars, activity toys, books – so that the child knows what goes where and can keep those back without asking for instructions.
Parenting Tips for Moms of infants and toddlers
#1 Use silicone bibs or protective aprons to save clothes
Feeding a 7-month old is a big task. Use silicone bibs instead of cloth bibs to protect the clothes. Silicone bibs are easier to clean than cloth ones. It will make the job easier and faster.
#2 Put a hook behind the high chair and hang bibs
If you have a high chair put a stick-on hook at the back, hang bibs (silicone / cloth). You won’t be looking for a big at the last minute.
#3 Use a mattress protector while toilet training
Kids need time for toilet training and when you are keeping them diaper-free at nights you must use a waterproof mattress protector or dry sheet to keep night wetting troubles at bay.
#4 Keep Baby Wipes Handy
I can’t tell you how versatile a baby wipe is. My son is 4 I still keep a Baby wipe pack in my handbag – ALWAYS. You can clean almost everything including toys when you are outside.
#5 Clip your baby’s nails when they sleep
Clipping an infant’s nail is such a delicate task. Clip them when they are asleep to save you from the anxiety.
Aren’t these life hacks & parenting tips useful, moms? Keep your sanity intact with these mom hacks and thank me later.
I am sharing Parenting hacks for Millennial Moms on this Season of A to Z Challenge. Adding the post links as I post them.
A – Amazing Moms
B-Boys -What Boys Need from their moms
C – How to be a calm mom
D – Discipline kids without yelling
E – Raising Emotionally healthy Kids
F – French Parenting Tips
G – Gentle Parenting
I – Indian values to instill in your child
J – Jar of Positivity
K – Know your kids through fun questions
Until next time.
Cheers.
Tina
Xoxo
