Family Calendar Tips

Here are a couple of calendar options to avoid double-booking appointments or outings and avoid missing important dates.

Use a weekly or monthly schedule. Put each persons schedule up for the coming week or month.

The schedule should include children’s school hours, your work commitments, family time, meal times, homework and other activities such as sport and sleep.

An important time management tip is to include non-scheduled time so that you can allow a buffer for travel time, preparation and the many things that are likely to pop up throughout the day.

This should be a fun thing to do for you and the family - the more fun and rewarding the more likely both you and the children will stick to the schedule.

For this reason I like to use lots of colors and pictures for each month - even assign a different color for each child.

There are also benefits of going online.

One of the great benefits of using an online family schedule is that you can check your family's schedule from any computer that has an Internet connection - and let's face it, most of us are on a computer countless times each day.

So if you're not sure whether you can accept an invitation for yourself or your family, all you need to do is access your online family plan to check availability for you or your family.

That means you'll avoid double-booking appointments or outings and avoid missing important dates. Of course, you can always print it out when you feel you need to have a copy with you.

I like this free online schedule.



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