School is out for the summer… now what? For children it can be one of their favorite times of year – summer vacation – but for parents it can mean stress over how to keep the kids busy, safe, and away from the video games 8 hours each day. If you’re a work-at-home mom or [...]
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While You Work at Home Stand on top of an exercise ball, balance a fish bowl on your head, and hold one leg out while you play the piano with your toes. This is what it can feel like to be a work-at-home mom when the kids are running through the house. But there are [...]
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No matter how organized or effective we feel we are, moms need to find ways to break away from the responsibilities of work and remember who we are. We are women with precariously balanced loads of projects, activities, and things for which we are accountable. Not to mention those people in our lives who make [...]
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Why your spouse can be the best asset to your work-at-home job Work-at-home mom is redundant. It implies that there are moms, and then there are moms with jobs that require work. However, I still can recognize the inherent differences and I consider myself a work-at-home mom because I have outside work for which I [...]
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Mom + Entrepreneur = Mompreneur And Taking the Workforce by Storm! Motherhood is a job – just one that doesn’t pay with money, but in so many other rewards. However, since it doesn’t pay for the electric bill or the groceries, many moms turn to working part-time or full-time, inside or outside of the home [...]
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Surviving the Challenges of College and Colic as a Student and Parent College can be challenging enough for dedicated students, but attending college as a new mom adds a whole new twist to this academic venture. I hadn’t finished college before my first child was born, but I knew I wanted to complete my degree [...]
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Working at home as a mother and pursuing a career can be a challenging mix. You don’t have the constant buzz all day of new and innovative opportunities floating around you, but you do have the constant buzz of your family and your life at home. In the background are deadlines, calls to be returned, [...]
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Does your child dream of being a firefighter, teacher, doctor, or newscaster, or does she instead make plans for the store she will own or the company she will run? Children love to dream big, and they often change those dreams as quickly as they zip through the hallways of our homes. I’ve recently been [...]
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Join the Cloud Commuting Crowd Working from home became my end goal as two things happened: my children grew older and my expense lists grew longer. Add into those things a yearning for contributing more to the family finances and the sense of accomplishment that brings to me and I began my journey. Deciding to [...]
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I’m pretty sure at some point in my youth that I thought people who homeschooled were crazy. And their children must be backward, unfortunate beings who would never be able to function in society. I am so glad I proved myself wrong. Somewhere between college, marriage, and motherhood, I started to realize that I had [...]
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