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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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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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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And Find a Few Minutes to Get Your Work Done Toddlers and preschoolers are some of the busiest people on the planet. They want to explore, investigate, and test the edges of their knowledge of how things work. If you’re a parent of these young bundles of exploratory energy, you know how challenging it can [...]
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The Going Rate for Moms Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, work-at-home mom, or mom who works outside of the home, you still carry the unofficial job title of Mom. This most important job title, however, is rarely seen with the respect that is deserves when it comes to the actual workload that it includes, [...]
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Working at home while parenting teens can be just as challenging for moms as working at home with toddlers. Someone recently told me that it must be easy for me to work from home now that all of my children are out of the preschool stage and can occupy themselves without constant supervision. I wish. [...]
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The Struggles and Rewards of Choices for Girls What do mothers teach their daughters about their roles as women in life? There are innumerable pressures on mothers to raise Superwomen – confident, capable, caring daughters who are loving and nurturing, yet strong and independent. When it comes to encouraging daughters in their endeavors for the [...]
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The worst things about being a work-at-home mom (WAHM) can also be the best things, but it takes some perspective searching to see them that way some days. There are wars that are waged, either fighting the tide of household responsibilities, juggling client needs, or self-inflicted guilt wounds of motherhood. Finding peaceful resolutions are not [...]
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