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How does the school year fit into your blogging and social media schedule?

I began homeschooling our oldest last year. I quickly learned that social media time would be very limited. I put in a lot of early morning hours on Bloggy Moms stuff and planning the Bloggy Conference.

This morning, a lot of schools in our area are beginning a new school year. A lot of moms are relieved to get a little more time for themselves. They will have a little extra quiet time to work on their to-do list and maybe enjoy a book, maybe.

We begin our homeschool year next Monday. My time for work will drastically be cut. Our oldest will begin 1st grade and our youngest is starting Kindergarten a year early. I do plan on letting him {our youngest} discontinue and restart the Kindergarten year next year if it appears he is actually not ready. However, even at this moment, he is very excited and is currently drawing 'O' after 'O' on a sheet of paper. Sometimes he accidentally makes a small 'e'.

Though my time for social media will be reduced, I seem to do better when I'm scheduled and given a time limit. Otherwise, I may find myself viewing picture after picture on various blogs and profiles... and work gets pushed back.

So how does the school year benefit your social media and blogging plans?

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Greer on August 15, 2011 at 11:32pm

It's so easy to get sucked into it all isn't it? As far as just looking and looking at stuff! I told my husband yesterday that I could stay on the computer all day long and never be caught up in every network/outlet. It's crazy! My son will be in school all day for the first time ever, so that will give me a little more free time, although my daughter will still be home with me. So, I'll try to do stuff after 10 at night and before 7 in the morning. Burning the candle at both ends of the stick! I'm going to try to delve deeper into the whole social media thing and learn more once he's in school though so that I can really make a go of this thing!

Good Luck with your homeschooling plans!!

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Permalink Reply by Joanna Liberty on August 16, 2011 at 9:52am

We are starting preschool at home this year, but I'm not starting until the first week of September. I'm hoping that our baby is here by then, actually any time now would be great so that I could get in the hang of the newborn/toddler combo... I know I will definitely have less time for social media, but I'm not sure yet how that schedule is going to work out. If I fall off the face of the earth, you know why! I've been writing down post ideas now so that I have some reserves for days with severely limited access, but the interaction is what I'm most nervous about. I'm hoping I can do it all, but social media will go out the window before activities with my kiddos!

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne on August 16, 2011 at 10:15am

Having kids in school actually makes things easier for my bloggingefforts because I am on a schedule. Most of my "me" time will be early in the morning before any of my children wake up!

We still have 2 weeks left before school starts here in the Midwest, but I look forward to routine!

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Permalink Reply by terra atkinson on August 18, 2011 at 10:32am

UGH - Probably one of the biggest struggles I have! On the one hand, having only my two younger ones at home and underfoot is nicer/easier to get things done. But I am HORRID at scheduling myself and my time. I just know there's some magical recipe or formula that will tell me step by step how to fit everything in and do it all and be GREAT at it all.

For now, I'm hoping that actually attempting to create a schedule, and then forcing myself to stick to it will help me fit it all in! Now to find that Pinterest/blog/website/tweet that had that great schedule making thingamajiggy...ooooo look! something shiny!!!

terra

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Permalink Reply by TyKes Mom on August 18, 2011 at 11:22am

I actually homeschool and we use a fairly unstructured curriculum so my biggest challenge is not getting sucked into the computer. I try to keep my time limited to just the mornings or when the kids are in bed in the evening, but sometimes it calls to me, lol.