If you have children, you are going to forget things. Sometimes, you forget important things. You will know this has happened when your child is looking at you in astonishment because you forgot what they considered to be a very important event. If you have more than one child, this can happen quite often. Add those events for your children to your own personal calender, and you can have a mess on your hands on any given day. Important things like making eye doctor appointments and handing in assignments on time are often forgotten, which is never good. A good calendar of events for your home can help keep everything straight.
You may think of a hand held device or perhaps the front of your refrigerator as a great place to keep track of all important things. However, these often fail for a variety of reasons. Things hung on on the refrigerator can fall off and go under things, and you will end up getting lazy about entering events into your hand held device after a while, especially if you are keeping track of events for a lot of people. Instead, think of things for your calendar of events that are highly visible and easy to use.
A large, erasable board can come in very handy when you want something to use for a calender of events for your family. These can hang where people can see them each day, so putting one in your office is not a good idea. Hang it in a common area everyone uses. Get a different color erasable marker for each person so that each person can easily see when they have things coming up without having to read all entries. You can also choose one color that signals an event for the entire family so that there is no confusion.
If you feel this is just not going to work for you, or perhaps you have already tired this and it ended up being a mess, don't worry, there are other things you can use as a calendar of events for your family. If you have a family computer, this can work great as well. You can use different colored fonts for each person, and have alerts for the most important events you have to think about for each day or perhaps for the week. There are great programs you can use for a calendar of events, so look around to see what works best for your family.
Whatever you use for your calendar of events, the important part is to use it. You may forget to add things once in a while, but this will make your busy life a bit more organized. Once you have your calendar in action for a while, you will get better about adding events and also remembering to check each day so that no important things are missed. You may even find your children remind you to look at the calendar because they know you may have forgotten. They will love the organizational tool as much as you do.