How I Juggled Multiple Kids and Life

When you become a mother, you learn how to multi-task. When you have another child or two then you wish God gave you more arms. Since God didn't do that, we have to learn how to juggle all of the kids with grace under fire.

I had my three children within a three year span, so I learned how to delegate and teach responsibility to my kids. It is amazing what a child at any age can do with encouragement. For example, did the baby bottle roll under the table? Ask the older child to get it. Need help carrying the baby and the baby bag to the car, ask another child to help carry the baby bag. But give him or her praise for being mother's little helper.

Older children can help the most because they give you the most activities that need done (like sport practice and games, sewing school play costumes or giving birthday parties). Even with the extra activities and errands, the dishes still need done, supper needs cooked and the living room dusted. So get the kids involved. The kids can dust furniture while you are sewing that costume or get the kids to work as a team to make a picnic lunch for going to brother's baseball game. They can make their beds while you are preparing breakfast for the family.

These actions might sound like you are only helping yourself but the truth is quite different. The kids are learning life lessons like responsibility for others, responsibility for their living quarters and the fact that you are not a doormat to be used and forgotten. These will help them in future relationships and work environments.