[Anonymous]

Hello all,am here again and need some advice.

I want to know from members here who have small kids as to how to plan time around them.I have a month old and a 3 yr old.My REG is scheduled for aug end and am at my wits end trying to complete the material.

How many hrs do u sleep,how to manage the kids and the rest of the work alongwith making some time to study.

Pls help me out.

PS: I am the mother..

Thank you marivy22 for the reply and i have edited the post.

[Marivy22]

10YRS, are you a she or a he??

Either way, here’s my input:

Studying:

I have used Jeff ELL Plan for 3 of the 4 exams. From Monday – Thursday, studied 30 minutes – 1 hour in the morning, 1 hour at lunch and 1-2 hours in the evening. On Saturdays I tried to be at the library at 8am until 2 pm. If I felt that I was been unproductive, I just walked away and tried to made up the following day or the following week. Sundays I tried to do 3-4 hours. During weekdays I had no issues because none of the hours conflicted with my 3 yrs old been running around the house or with the whole family routine, but on weekends my husband was the one taking care of him.

Based on others' recommendations you just need 20 hours a week of good study for an average of 5-8 weeks. I would suggest this:

https://www.another71.com/cpa-exam-study-planner/

At home:

I have been using the George Foreman a lot, and my family has been eating either lots of greens or pasta……easy but healthy stuff 🙂 At the beginning I was cleaning and doing laundry on Friday nights (the night off from studying), but I was just exhausted and asked my husband for help and he took over…

At work:

I do not work long hours, so it has not been hard for me. I have also used any spare minute to work MCQ's on Wiley tb, we have no internet restrictions (lucky me!!!)

Hope you can figure out what would work best for you. This is for few months only and would be all worth it; not easy, but worth it.

Done 😉
Class of 2012!!!!
Lots of prayers and hard work....

[Author]

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