Tools to Help Moms Get Organized
Top 5 Planners, Calendars and Organizers for Busy Parents
Running an organized house, keeping track of all family members’ activities and keeping appointments of her own, a stay-at-home mom can hardly do without some type of organizational planner. It might be a color-coded calendar on the refrigerator where everyone can see the day’s activities, or maybe a portable planner that Mom can refer to while out and about.
The calendar print business apparently knows there’s an audience for parents’ organizational tools and it’s a paper and pencil crowd. At a time when Apple and Palm Pilot offer sleek electronic devices that seem to do everything but clean the kitchen sink, the market is still growing for the good old-fashioned spiral notebook-in-the-purse planner.
GoMom
Designed in an 18-month academic year format that allows planning around the start of a school year, GoMom organizers come in a tri-fold notebook, a wire-bound planner, and a school organizer.
These mom planners have a Menu Minder, Mom’s Corner, Taxi Box for carpool information, and other tools for living organized that users can tailor to fit their needs.
The School Organizer, which has a clear zipper bag for papers and pocket pages for kids’ subjects and moms’ projects, may be all a parent needs if they have school-age children.
GoMom planners have sturdy, attractive covers and Avery tabs – 18 preprinted and three more blank tabs - to use as you see fit. GoMom products are available at Office Max stores.
Moms PlanIt
Mom’s PlanIt calendars are a fun way to get organized. With a colorful, whimsical cover, Mom’s PlanIt focuses on children and the hectic, busy schedules they demand.
Mom’s PlanIt calendars come in a purse-sized pocket planner, a magnetic wall calendar, a desk calendar, and a spiral notebook organizer. Some include tear-off grocery lists, a place to track weekly menus, babysitter instructions, and stickers for main events.
Mom’s PlanIt products can be found at many Staples stores.
Mom’s Daily Planner
Touted as a simple solution, Mom’s Daily Planner skips the stickers and fancy features and offers a streamlined, easy-to-read calendar. Each day is divided into columns for Mom and up to three children, for charting activities and appointments, keeping them separate but allowing an overall view of “who has what when.”
Wire-bound with four choices of cover colors, Mom’s Daily Planners have daily pages with time slots from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and additional pages for restaurant names and numbers, babysitter information, and frequently consulted medical and school information on children.
Truly Mom
Truly Mom has a line of moms’ planners and calendars claiming to be a busy parent’s “portable desk on the go.”
On the outside, Truly Mom planners come in several colors and the covers are available in patent leather, Microsatin or Majilite, which the company says is more expensive than leather but more durable and stain resistant.
On the inside, the line offers simple wire-bound calendars, tri-fold calendars with notepads and stickers, and sections for addresses and other reference.
Mom Agenda
Mom Agenda has a line of calendars, day planners, agendas and organizers with accessories to pick and choose how you want to stay organized. The line includes a unique Kitchen Folio, with plastic page protectors for storing and organizing all those important papers that can get piled up.
No matter how you choose to get organized, stay organized and balance all of your roles as a stay-at-home parent, there is help through simple mom tools.
