Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. In today's video, I'm going to be sharing with you my
best morning mum hacks. There's going to be tips in this on how to have a more productive
morning, how to get yourself and your kids ready quicker, have a smooth breakfast, and
ultimately get out the door with no tears. I hope you really enjoy these hacks. I have
20 to share with you in total, and I'm also super excited because this video is a collaboration
with my lovely friend Tiffani Beaston. She is an amazing YouTuber. I think you guys will
love her, and today she is also doing a morning mum hacks video. Once you've watched this
one through, definitely go check out her channel. I find that I get so much inspiration from
her videos.
She does amazing cleaning videos, mummy routines, getting it all done, and meal preps as well.
I just love her content. If you're just popping over from Tiffani's channel, thanks so much
for checking me out. I'm Emily and I'm a mum of three. I post so much motherhood content,
and I would love you to consider subscribing if you like this kind of video. But without
further ado, let's get into my hacks. The first few hacks that I'm going to share with
you are all about the evening before because so much prep can be done before the morning
to make sure that it runs smoothly. My first hack is to consider meal prepping some breakfasts.
I've recently really got into meal prepping and it is honestly such a game changer. You
can pre-make things like pancakes.
You can either just make up the batter so that that's ready, or you can fully make the
pancakes, keep them into your fridge, and then in the morning you can just pop them
into your toaster, add some maple syrup or butter, and there you go. Breakfast is ready.
I also really love to make simple overnight oats or egg muffins the night before. I will
make sure to link below my previous meal prep videos with those recipes in it. Another simple
tip is to set the breakfast table at night. This is something my mum used to always do
when I was a kid. She would just lay out the bowls, spoons and cereals and then we could
wake up and help ourselves.
Another huge tip, which I feel like I've said so many times on this channel in the past,
is to get everything ready the night before for yourself and for the kids as well. Just
laying out their uniform so it's all ready to go, or you could even get the kids help
you to choose what they're going to wear the next day or pick out their uniform. But what
I normally do is while the kids are in the bath, I'll just choose what they need for
the next day, line up all of their uniforms on the banister, and it's all sets to go,
and then in the morning they know where to go to get their outfits. The same goes for
us as moms. It is definitely worth taking a few minutes out just to choose what you're
going to wear as well because it saves those precious minutes the next morning.
My go-to outfit for the school run is either black leggings or skinny jeans with some chunky
boots or trainers and then either a big jumper or a check shirt. If you want to take it one
step further, for my youngest son, I actually have a hanging closet organizer for his clothes
so that I can choose every outfit that he's going to wear for the week. I will just pick
out five to seven outfits, put them each into one of the sections on the hanging organizer,
and then that is it. He is ready for the whole week. In line with making sure that you lay
out all of your clothes the night before, I also shower at night. If I ever need to
wash my hair, I will wash it, blow dry it and curl it. Do everything at night.
No, it's not going to look as good the next morning once you've slept on it, but it saves
so much time, it is definitely worth it. I also find that it is so important that I get
all of the kids' school bags ready the night before. I just line them up and have them
ready so that we can grab them and go. All of my children do so many different clubs.
They all need different things on different days. It is like a minefield, so I make sure
to take a bit of time the night before and set up everything that they need. I've also
really enjoyed getting some clever storage solutions for all of our stuff. I have a place
under our stairs where I line up all of the kids' shoes, and it means it's really, really
quick for them to find them and to put them on and go.
We also have personalized coat hooks so that they each have a place where their coats and
their bags go and they know where that is. I also have some baskets under our TV units,
which has everything that you'll need for like all weather conditions, so hats, coats,
scarfs, football, shin pads, football gloves, anything that they're going to need is all
under there. Again, we know where it is and we can quickly grab and go with what we need.
If you find that you're constantly forgetting things that you need to do throughout the
course of the morning, one hack is that you could set little alarms on your phone. Whether
it be brush the kids' teeth at 8:30 or whatever you choose to set them at, it can be really
helpful to have those prompts.
Another huge hack is to ban screen time and I don't just mean for the kids, I mean for
you as well. It is so easy to get sucked into checking emails, checking Facebook, randomly
scrolling through Instagram and looking at other people's breakfast. Before you know
it, you have wasted 20 minutes. You're down a social media hole and it's just not worth
it. Put your phone in your bag, don't look at it, and then it can be your reward once
you've done the school drop-off or the nursery drop-off. Another hack is to style your children's
hair while they're having breakfast. This is something that we do with the kids and
we have a little drawer in our kitchen for the hair gel and the hairbrushes.
But you could also do this for girls if you want to keep bows or hairbands in your kitchen
while your children are eating, they're pretty occupied, and it's a great chance to just
quickly sort out their hair and style it. It's also worth keeping things like baby wipes
to hand downstairs that you can quickly give them a quick wipe or even their shoes if they
need it. We also like to keep toothbrushes in our downstairs loo so that they can quickly
brush their teeth there and then we can go out the door. My next hack is to have chore
charts for your kids. Now, we're big fans of having chore charts, and I will link in
the description the ones that we use because it's a free printable and you guys can use
them as well, but it's really nice to have some morning tasks and some evening tasks
for the kids to do.
Our children have to complete all of their morning tasks before they can watch any TV
or have any screen time. They're really simple things, but it definitely helps to make our
morning goes smoother. It's just things like make your bed, brush your teeth, get dressed,
get ready, have breakfast, just all of the things you want them to do. Because they know
they don't get any screen time until they've done it, everything it means they get ready
really quickly. Then if they complete all of the chores all week, they get a reward
at the end of the week. We keep our children's chore charts on our home command center, and
I've made a whole video about this. If you want to see it in more detail, I will link
that down below.
But our command center is basically a place where I keep all kinds of information, any
invitations they've received, our family diary, the chore charts, and also a school checklist
so that I can keep track of clubs and everything that we're going to need for the day. I just
love having it all in one place. I even keep the school menu on our command center. If
the children are ever having school dinners and they're wondering what they're going to
have for lunch, they can just reference it. We all really like having it. If your children
don't have school dinners and they opt for a packed lunch, it's definitely worth getting
that ready the night before as well and making it before you sit down at night, or even better,
if your children are old enough, you can get them involved with helping with the pack lunch.
In our house, we've set up a really simple snack drawer so that the kids can organize
their own snacks that they take to school obviously with our supervision, and then in
the fridge we also have an area of things that are great for school lunches so the kids
can actually pack their own lunch. I've even got a little checklist within his lunchbox.
If you have slightly younger children that are a little bit more messy, like my three
year old, we make it a rule in our house that getting him dressed is the last thing that
we do. We make sure he has all of his breakfast and brushes his teeth and anything that we
know he's going to get quite messy doing. We let him do all of that before we get him
fully dressed. I recently shared on my channel two great morning laundry hacks I wanted to
share with you again.
If you ever need a school jumper dry in a hurry, a really quick way to do this is to
throw the wet jumper into the dryer with a big fluffy towel. Leave that to dry for 10
minutes or so and then take the big towel out. You'll see that it has soaked up a lot
of the moisture, and then you can carry on with the tumble dryer cycle for another 10
minutes and it will be dry. A great way to make a school shirt crease-free in a hurry
is to throw the wrinkly shirt into the tumble dryer with a wet flannel and then turn it
on for about five to 10 minutes. It kind of steams the shirt. It definitely softens all
the creases and it's a great hack. Another great mum hack, which I have really loved
in the past, is to get up slightly earlier than your children and then you can get yourself
organized.
Maybe you set your alarm for 6:00 AM, wake up, wash your face, brush your teeth, get
ready and just feel slightly more ahead of the game. I am currently not doing this hack
because my youngest son is in our bed and I have tried in the past. But if I wake up
and my like hot body leaves the bed, he then immediately wakes up. It's not really working
for me at the moment, but it is a great one. Another go-to item that you can keep downstairs
to help your kids get ready is suncream. If your children hate putting suncream on their
face, I have a really cool hack for you that one of my viewers sent in. She said that her
daughter hated putting suncream on, so she used a big makeup brush to apply it and her
child thought that was great.
She also sometimes you use baby wipes to wipe her daughter's face, and she just says that
she's putting her makeup on and then she lets her wipe her face. The last hack that I wanted
to share with you is something that I really liked doing and that is to write a to do list
in the morning of things you want to try and get done that day. Whether you write it in
your planner or just have a list on your phone, it doesn't matter and it doesn't have to be
some big expensive list of loads and stuff that you have to do. Just write down three
things that you want to achieve that day for yourself and then three things that you want
to achieve professionally.
The thing is you'll probably get more than that done, but just by achieving those three
things, it makes you feel really good and then it also makes sure that you concentrate
on yourself. It could be little things like having to book a doctor's appointment or just
painting your toenails or shaving your legs. Just little things that probably don't even
take very long, but that you have to get done for yourself. Then you can also put some professional
things on there as well. Yeah, it just helps me to keep on track. Right. This is it for
this video. I really hope you enjoyed it.
I feel like I have so many more that I could share with you, but I don't want to make this
the longest video in the world, but let me know what you think in the comments, and of
course, anything that you do to make your morning routine that little bit easier, any
hacks or tips that you have. Don't forget to go and check out Tiffani Beaston's video
as well. I think you guys will love her. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you
in my next one. Bye guys.