Being a Creative Work at Home Mom
Most work at home moms start home based businesses because they want to be home with their little ones. Though I started working from home before my son was born, I know of many women who left their corporate jobs so that they can spend more time with their children.
For many who are starting out with a home office, we tend to put in lots of time and efforts in our home business. Yes, you are getting orders, and making some money, but the flip side is that you end up not spending enough time with your little ones. How do you then balance your time? Do you still put your children first? Or do you go for the “Wait a minute” line and hope they will accept your reasons.
It isn’t easy to balance, is it? I know of a good friend who runs a successful online maternity clothing business from home and yet her success is robbing her time away from her precious kids. As such, she needs to look into employing a couple of staff to run her marketing and customer service department so that she can still be an effective work at home mom. In other words, you may need to get help when your business is weighing you down with too much workload and responsibilities.
I once heard of a story of a work at home mom who actually came up with the idea of building her child an ‘office’ right next to her out of used boxes. With that in place, she was able to continue her work uninterrupted and her child loved watching and copying her. When she picked up the phone to talk to a customer, her child would pick up her imaginary phone. One day, the little girl is a orange nj dentist and another day, she’s an online retailer selling baby toys. In the play process, she had taught her child some simple business duties as well as learning to be creative.
Could YOU be using your home business to teach your kids some business basics while having fun? Sometimes we are the ones who need to learn creative parenting techniques while working from home. Just take some time and think how your situation can be used to plant some business lessons in your child.
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