Call from the music teacher - oops

I have 3 children also.But the youngest one is a lot younger then the other two and I homeschool her.When I was a single parent with the boys I found myself in the same situation,forgetting things. I started putting a calendar on the inside of the door marked with what who had to take what day.It worked out much better.

Hi dawn I am a single mum to 3 boys aged 3, 5 and 8 and believe me I know where you are coming from! They have school dinners all week apart from one day so I have to remember to make packed lunches and to pay for my youngest to stay for lunch club on a Thursday. Wednesday one has computer club and Thursday he has gym club and the eldest has swimming lessons. Wednesday I go to college and on Tuesday evening the two eldest go to boys brigade and Sunday is Rugby for the eldest. I love my life with my kids though and wouldn't do a lot to change it right now!!

i dont know how to keep up,but sometimes,i feel i will go mad.right from keeping her books to hertiffin and uniforms,i have to supervise everything.i guess,that is the advantage of being a mom!!!

that is a very difficult situation there. i no longer know how i did manage with my three kids, too. i used to work in an office. that agency of government which deals with the socio-economic planning of the country. quite a heavy task there. then there were three kids yet. two are in school and one is in pre school. somehow i managed but with sooooo much difficulty. it is so hard to recall all the details now as to how i coped with it all. it is almost like i do not sleep on weekdays. there's just so much to do. i help my kids with their assignments at night. i prepare the food to be cooked early in the morning, i prepare all their requirements for school also. oh, no, i am sorry that i cannot be so explicit on how i did it then.

I don't have kids.. but when I was younger, I have this habit of writing notes and posting them in my small board so i won't forget important things that i need to accomplish..=)

Wow sounds like you have your hands full, no wonder you forget things on occation. I am glad that I don't have to worry about that for a while yet,LOL. Have you tried giving them all checklists of things to have ready for school? Or maybe putting things by the door to remind them to check before they leave? I hope you have more luck in the future, take care.

My girls are now in high school and junior college so they need to be responsible for themselves but, when they were younger, I had the same issues as you. One thing that worked for me was that, at the start of the school year, I got a binder,some tabbed dividers and some of those pocket style sheet protectors. I also got one of the thin three-hole punches that can be stored on the rings of the binder. When the girls would get home, I went through their agendas and backpacks, scouring around for the notices and notes they would inevitably "forget" to give me. I'd read everything through and then put things into the binder, by child, if it was something I needed to take action on. Newsletters got read and recycled. I stored the binder in the kitchen so, at night, I'd make lunches and take a quick look through it for anything that needed to be sent to the school the next day (permission slips, field trip money, book orders...). The girls had to check their agendas and pack their backpacks before going to bed and I'd add in anything I had to send too. The backpacks would be zipped and sitting at the front door. Then, in the morning, we just had to remember lunches (and I STILL went haulin' it down the street, barefoot, several times, trying to get their lunchbags to them before the bus arrived LOL). Wasn't a perfect system but it did save at least SOME of my sanity :)

Now, I don't have kids, but my mom set up a bench near the front door and we were supposed to put our books on it when we got home. The only reason the books were off it was when we did our home work. Then, mom would put everything we needed for that day at school on the bench in the morning, lunches, etc. You might try that, so that Weds night, you get everything needed (except the lunch) on a single place so that they have to pick it up, and the bench/whatever will be clear when everyone is off to school. Again, I'm not sure what they do, but back then they posted the lunch menu in the paper on Sunday, I think. Mom would go over it with us and we could chose to eat at school or take a lunch, then we had to tell her what we wanted for lunch then if we wanted to take it. When I first was working, before my allergies became so bad, I used to make up sandwiches on Sunday and freeze them, then all I had to do was take it out in the morning and by the time lunch rolled around, it was thawed. Obviously doesn't work if you have mayo, I had mustard. I hope a few of these suggestions can help you.

I only have one to get ready in the morning, and he is only in preschool. But when I was a teacher and had 22 or 23 to help with this type thing there was only one way..... Structure!! Lots of structure.

Hello, dawnald. Naomi seems to be forgetting a lot of things. Have you wondered what might be causing? I mean, it is not too common for somebody to be forgetting things like that. You should try to let her know about her responsibilities more, or perhaps she already have a lot of tasks. What do you think that is going on? Well, I have no children, so I cant say how would I do it. Respectfully, Munhozmib.

It is hard dawn and very hard work keeping on top off everything. At least once a month I have to drive back to School to with something my daughters have forgotten. I would shout to them "have yous all got everything for todays classes" I sort of know when PE is and stuff and which days it,s on, but I find they forget their lunch money often. I think the older they get they do remember more in the mornings, but for now just keep double checking until they get sick hearing it everyday like my children do.