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Raising a large family can
be a little tasking, but there are ways to make it all just a little easier.
Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares five survival tips for
raising a large family.
Be
Organized
This is one of the most
important ways to efficiently manage a large family. You must learn to plan for
everything around your family. All you need is 10 to 15 minutes to yourself to
lay down a plan to help guide your family related activities, and this will do
wonders in helping you sail through the day. These few minutes can be early in
the morning before you get up from bed. A ‘To-Do’ list to prioritize your
activities can help with this, and a calendar to keep track of everyone’s
schedules can also be priceless in helping to keep you organized.
Plan
Your Meals
It’s very helpful to put
together menus (or meal plans) for a week, two weeks or even a month to help
save a lot of stress in the area of meal preparation. Meal planning helps take
away the burden of having to consider each day what the family will eat. With a
good meal plan, all you need to bother about is how to get the ingredients for
the meals you’ve already laid down in the plan. A meal plan also helps you shop
efficiently for groceries, since you already know what you need, and it also
makes it easier for you to buy in bulk, which saves you a lot of time and
money.
Try
To Avoid Clutter
Teach your children at a
young age to keep their things organized. Your spouse should also try to pull
their own weight in this area. Clutter is synonymous with large families and it
can be extremely frustrating to have to clear it up all the time. So, getting
everyone aware of their responsibility to keep things as organized as possible
can relieve some of the stress in this area. Also, you should try to commit
about 10 to 15 minutes of your time daily to just clearing things up in the
house, to prevent them from mounting up into a clutter.
Make
Time for One Another
Large families tend not to
be so close-knit because there is usually a lot going on and family members hardly
have time to just be with each other. Try to address this by making it a
priority to make out private time for one another. Use these times to
strengthen familial bonds and to get comfortable being around each other, to
really know one another. Make time to be together and let it be clear that the
time spent together as a family is the most valuable of any time spent.
Save
Time and Money by Doing Things in Groups
Let your children share a
bedroom, of course this depends on their number and on the size of the room.
For example, five children can be split between five bedrooms. Plan your
vacations as a group and take advantage of group and family discounts. Teach
your children how to take care of one another, and how to manage portions like
food portions etc. In addition, you can save time by grouping your errands so
you can take care of as many things as you comfortably can within the same
time.
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