Parenting Pointers: What Energizes Moms

Everybody knows it: Moms can be busy, and sometimes stressed for time.  So you can imagine what they’d do with more time and energy: spend a day in the spa or have lunch with friends, right? Wrong. A new study from Everyday Health reveals that with a little more time and energy, 59% of moms surveyed would clean the house.

The online study was designed to find out what roles time and energy plays in a mom’s life — who and what give her a lift and what she’d do with just a little more time. To gain these insights, Everyday Health tapped an audience of 1,391 moms from across the country.  

Here are some more eye-opening insights from the study about American moms and energy:

• 49% of the moms surveyed said that they have “just enough” energy to get through the day
• 67% say that it feels like they are putting in 24 hours or more per day
• When asked about the activities that give them energy:
  • 55% of moms said that “getting to cross items off the to-do list” did the job
  • 54% said that spending time with their children was an energy booster
  • 52% reported that they got energy from doing household tasks

The takeaway? Mom deserves a really special treat this Mother’s Day.  Although she feels more energized when she has a clean house, rather than getting her a new vacuum cleaner, getting the kids to chip in around the house may be just the energy-boosting gift she craves.

For more insights about moms and energy — and more fun and energizing solutions — please visit www.EverydayHealth.com/health-report/making-the-most-of-family-time. This study was supported by Quaker.

About Everyday Health, Inc.
Everyday Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVDY) is a leading provider of digital health and wellness solutions. Everyday Health combines premier digital content from leading health brands with sophisticated data and analytics technology to provide a highly personalized and differentiated content experience to our users. During 2013, an estimated average of 43 million consumers and 500,000 healthcare professionals, including one-third of all U.S. physicians, engaged with Everyday Health's health and wellness properties each month across multiple channels, including the web, mobile devices, video and social media.