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Welcome to BalancedHousehold.com! My name is Zoe Sexton and it is my wish to help people manage their households and bring balance and serenity back into their lives. I hope you find this site useful and keep coming back. I would love to hear your feedback and encourage you to post your own experiences and ideas in the Community area so it can be a resource for other moms, dads, individuals and families.
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A Balanced Household? Not Impossible!
Your home should be a place of safety and serenity. A firm foundation or framework is key to creating a balanced household. Start by developing for your own household some of the past times that will allow you to reconnect with your family daily, strengthen the family bond and create a safe haven for your children that will keep them out of mischief for a lifetime.
Five Steps to Creating Balance in Your Household
1. Create some time for yourself - a moment to reflect and plan your day. Rising early has always been an essential element to starting my day right. Yes, occasionally it's nice to be able to slouch out of the house without a shower, but the freedom it anointed you with in the early hour usually succumbs to grungy discomfort by mid-morning.
2. Restore natural rhythm to your home through daily rituals. Rhythm in the natural world is defined by the seasons, the motions of the sun, the changing moon and the rise and ebbing of the tide. As we have developed technologically, we have defied the natural world. Societies have been able to defy many of the natural rhythms of the earth and in doing so, have created our own feelings of imbalance. Ancient history is on nature's side. In fact, Chinese medicine and acupuncture suggests we eat the foods grown in season and they will sooth our ailments. It is key in a balanced household to restore a sense of rhythm in daily life. This cannot be stressed more strongly than in eating and sleeping. Regular meal times and bedtimes will create an immediate sense of balance for your family.
3. Establish a sense of order in your home. There is a place for everything and everything should be in its place. This is an external visual context, but it is as important as budgets, banking and scheduling. Children are taught by example. Cleaning up and put things away carries over into both internal and external senses of order later in life.
4. Welcome the Family Meal back into your household. It may seem an old fashioned tradition, but it has been proven over time and through many studies (where common sense would have sufficed) that the family meal is a critical component to a balanced household. Children get the best nutrition from family meals as well as learn social skills such as conversation, language, and grammar as well as gain a feeling of security. Mealtimes are also a great place to recount family stories or histories and create a sense of grounding with your children.
5. Regular evening transitions, following the natural world from light to darkness. Create balance with a bath for the children, a story and bed. If you have not been fortunate enough to establish your child's bedtime ritual prior to this, and it is a battleground in which you feel the looser, the bath is an extremely helpful, calming precursor to bed.
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