Multitasking for advanced users
Actually , Elisabeth is a completely normal 24-year-old student. She dropped out of her first degree in architecture, is now doing a master's degree in literature at Bielefeld University, enjoys reading, blogging and going out. Actually, just like many other students her age. Only with the small difference that Elisabeth is also the mother of a little boy. Which in her everyday life repeatedly presents her with moderate organizational problems and challenges her multitasking skills. Her blog of the same name, which is our blog of the month for March 2014, is also about life as a student mom .
Becoming a mother in your early 20s while still studying is not exactly a dream for many, and Elisabeth also had planned the idea of starting a family differently. But, it happens as it comes! And so, at 24, Elisabeth is the mother of a three-year-old son and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Many students Elisabeth's age find it difficult to organize themselves. Since becoming a mother, Elisabeth has become a true multitasking professional: balancing child, university, household and private life is a challenge not only for a 24-year-old, but also for every other woman. On a typical day, Elisabeth is woken up at three in the morning by her son because he was having nightmares , during the day the child is at daycare and Elisabeth is at university, the afternoons are spent with Lego houses, playgrounds and parent-child gymnastics If she doesn't fall into bed dead in the evening, she meets up with friends or goes out. And when she still has time, she blogs about her life as a student mom .
Her blog is about much more than just diaper changes, childhood illnesses and nasty, incomprehensible professors. Elisabeth is particularly interested in the topicof children and the role of young women and mothers in our society. Accordingly, all young mothers should always be well styled, always happy and balanced, professionally successful and of course there for their child around the clock. These requirements are so utopian that they cannot be fulfilled in reality, unless perhaps you can divide yourself into three parts. In her blog entries, Elisabeth repeatedly comes to the conclusion that it is stressful to combine having a child and studying. Nevertheless, she is of the opinion that there is no better time to have children than while you are studying, because you will never be so flexible with your time again.
She writes in a charming way about the everyday problems of a student mom: How, for example, do you explain to a child what “dreaming” is without giving them horror ideas about crazy, uncontrollable thoughts in their own head? Or how do you get a daycare place and why does a university call itself a “family-friendly university” if compulsory events fall outside the university daycare opening hours? For them, the blog is not just a form of self-communication, but above all designed to exchange ideas with other students, parents and student parents. And so Elisabeth is happy to hear from other student parents who may have had similar experiences as her and would like to share something - guest posts and comments are very welcome in her blog.
Elisabeth's blog is especially recommended to those students who have just taken a positive pregnancy test and are on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Because Elisabeth shows that it is a lot of work to have a child while studying, but also that student life doesn't end there and the good things clearly outweigh the negative aspects.
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Multitasking for advanced users Elisabeth is actually a completely normal 24-year-old student. She dropped out of her first degree in architecture, is now doing a master's degree in literature at Bielefeld University, enjoys reading, blogging and going out. Actually, just like many other students her age. Only with the small difference that Elisabeth is also a mother
