How to Be Productive at Naptime Without Worrying About Making Noise

We’re moms, we have stuff to do! But it’s nap time & we’re afraid to make any noise! 😬

What’s a girl to do?! Today I’m sharing how I’ve handled this with my twins & it works like a charm!

Sometimes as a moms, so much of the household duties fall on our shoulders. Unfortunately, when something pops up that takes a lot of our attention, we get so focused on that task that our house just kind of falls to the wayside and we end up in a giant mess.

The only time that we can really make some good headway on that is during nap time. Right? If you've got young kids, you know that nap time is the prime time because they're not following you around making a mess as you clean up.

That's the situation that I'm in today.

So I've been super, super focused lately....on you guys!

Because I'm working hard on a course for you called The Busy Mom's Guide to Taxes. (I've got everything shot, videos prepped, everything's ready except for the final touches on the workbook.) This will take you step by step through the process of prepping for taxes in a way that's suited for moms!

So during this time when I'm crazy focused, my house has gotten so messy! I mean it looks like each room had a tornado come in and tore everything to shreds.

It's awful! So right now it's nap time and I'm ready start cleaning up.

We know that in the kitchen, cleanup is guaranteed to cause lots of noise!

How many of you moms get into this same situation and you're so afraid to make any kind of noise whatsoever. And then the entire nap time is wasted because you're trying to be quiet!

So when we're dealing with a messy home that we need to really hit hard at nap time, I use a strategy I developed when the twins were about a year and a half old (maybe a little younger). You can implement this at any time, any age, as long as your kids are still taking naps. 

If your kids are older and they're still taking a nap you can still do this because it doesn't take very long to train your kids. If they're younger than a year and a half, you can still do it to! Because as you repeat this process over and over!

You use key words as you're leaving their room.

Therefore, you're helping build the wisdom in them to know that you're leaving the room but you're still being present in the house and they can expect to hear some noise from you.

So what I do is after I get the boys in their cribs and I give them their kisses, and we do our little routine and everything, then I always say to them

"Okay, Mommy's got to go clean the kitchen and I will be back in just a little bit to check on you guys."

And then I leave.

Now the first couple of times that this happened they still cried and I went ahead I made some noise emptying the dishwasher and loading it back up. Then I went back in their room so they knew, there was noise, Mommy's still here, and she came back in.

Then I'd say again "Okay, Mommy's not done cleaning the kitchen so I've got to run back out there and take a look, clean up a little bit more and I'll be back to check on you."

I just kept this process going over and over.Now it's such a seamless situation!

It's so easy that I know I can leave their room and immediately start cleaning whatever room it is (it doesn't matter if it's the kitchen or not). I can start cleaning, I can make noise, they can be talking in their room, and they'll eventually fall asleep.

The other really great thing is:

Sometimes when we're trying to be quiet so that they fall asleep, once they are asleep we're still afraid of making noise that they're going to wake up! Right?!

Well, because you were already making noise while they were falling asleep, that fear is gone! Of course, you don't want to be blaring music out loud or doing things like that. But you can go about your business doing cleaning making the noises you need to and not be afraid.

The other really nice thing is,

Even if you don't have any cleaning to do whatsoever you still use that phrase.

"Mommy's got to go clean the kitchen, I will be back to check on you." And you go and you sit down and you have a little self care time! Read a book, watch a movie, whatever you want to do. Because you're still working on those triggers with them.

I hope this is helpful to you. And if you guys are interested in learning about The Busy Mom's Guide to Taxes, make sure to sign up for my emails so you get notified when the course is available for enrollment. In the meantime, you can take advantage of my free download the Ultimate Tax Deduction Cheat Sheet.

So I hope this video has helped you! If it has, please share with your friends because you know that so many of us moms are so afraid of waking the kids up at nap time! And I want this strategy to help as many people as it can!

Thanks and I'll talk to you later!

~Jill