Homemakers Essential: Delegation

This is the hardest skill a homemaker must learn. We aren’t just homemakers we are moms (or dads). Also, we are spouses. Usually, the homemaking is on us and we take it on willingly. However, there comes a time when we have to delegate tasks to other members of our house. I have had to do this while I have been trying to kick this COVID-19. Which by the way, I still have. That means I have had to delegate more tasks to my 18-year daughter which has zero experience in homemaking.

This is difficult. Why? Because no matter how they try, the other loving members of our home won’t do things the way we do. They haven’t taken the time to develop the routines that we have. We have a system or method to our madness. What am I talking about? Okay, I have a pet peeve: dirty dishes in the sink when I get up in the morning. (That is a long and very personal story.) My daughter doesn’t do dishes at the end of the night all the time. Sometimes she is too tired to stand. We don’t have a dishwasher in our apartment. I don’t leave dirty dishes in the sink till the next morning. I hate it. She knows that and will have them done before I get up. So to delegate this task to her is very hard.

We have to let go of control when we delegate tasks out to members of our home. We have to trust that the daily tasks like dishes will be taken care of. Even if it’s not the way we would do it. When the homemaker is sick, we need to let the members of our home take care of us and the home the best way they can. This is also why we need to share information about our system. A family that homemakers together will always know how to get things done even if it’s not the way we would do it.