06/16/2026
✨ Toolbox Tuesday ✨
What are family management tools? Family management tools focus on how to help coordinate and organize day to day family life. Tracking appointments, streamlining daily tasks like cooking and cleaning, and protecting family time are all things that these tools can help with.
🗓 Wall Calendars: having visible calendars can help with remembering appointments, extracirriculars, work shifts, etc. They allow all members of a family to check in on what is happening on a particular day. Modern updates include things like the skylight calendar. You can also simulate some aspects of this by syncing online calendars through apple, google, etc.
🫧 Chore charts: having visible designations of household chores can help remind family members to complete their age appropriate, assigned chores.
🍽️ Meal planning: this can look like planning out what will be eaten every day of a week or month, and generating a grocery list to make that easier to, or even just creating a list of family loved meals. By thinking about meals ahead of time, the grocery shopping and cooking processes are simplified, and you don't have to think about what to make when the time comes!
❌ Blackout days: assigning specific days in the course of a month or week that are 'blacked out', meaning that nothing can be booked or planned on them, gives family life some breathing room. These days can be used to catch up on things around the house, spend more intentional time connecting, or for movie marathons. The idea is that its a day where nobody is running around and the family is together!
Which of these strategies are your favourite? Do you have others that we missed?!
