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I was sure bullet journaling and kids didn't mix. One packed week with my nieces changed my mind.
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jennybailey1mo ago
That "clean way to track the chaos" idea is what gets me. I read an article where a mom said her bullet journal was less about perfect colors and more about having one place to dump all the kid stuff so her brain didn't explode. It's the survival part @aliceharris mentioned. If soccer gets rained out, you just cross it out and maybe scribble "indoor chaos" next to it. The point is it's on the page and out of your head, not that it looks pretty.
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wyatt_foster841mo ago
I saw a mom online who uses different colored dots for each kid's activities in her bullet journal. It looked like a clean way to track the chaos.
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kevinallen1mo ago
Lol but is it really that deep though? Like what happens when little Timmy's soccer practice gets rained out but you already used the blue dot. Do you white it out or just let the page look wrong forever? Color coding only works if your kids don't constantly ruin the plan.
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daniel3911mo ago
My own bullet journal looked like a rainbow threw up until last year. I used to stress about the colors like Kevinallen said, but then I realized the messy cross-outs are the real record of our week. Now I just let the page look wrong, because it's honest.
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