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Organization is essential for a parent.
Its also woefully lacking in many busy households, where parents juggle jobs, parenting,extracurricular activities, house maintenance and community projects. A little advanced planning goes a long way, organizational experts say. Even the planning itself can be broken down into manageable chunks of time. For example, assigning tasks into 15 minute blocks and scheduling projects that need to be done each day. Designate times to clean the house, mow the lawn or do the laundry.