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No-Work Zones for the Working Mom
When you’re a working mom, particularly when you have your own business it can be difficult to draw the line between working and family. In fact, most of the time, that line can be down right fuzzy! The key is creating No-Work Zones in your house. This is especially...
Home Sweet Home Office
A home office is a great option for busy moms, particularly when you are trying to balance everything. However, a home office can also become a problem if you don’t set some ground rules too. If you have a separate office with a locking door, lock it when you are not...
Business can be Part-Time: Being a Mom is Always Full-Time
Sometimes it might feel that your business is taking up all of your time. It can be very common to feel as though all you do is work on your business, answer calls, talk to clients and put out fires at the office. In fact, sometimes you may feel as if your family is...
Childcare Options for Working Moms
One of the advantages of running your own business is that you have flexible child care options. In fact, for many women, that is one of the big incentives for running their own businesses. When you are a working mom you have a lot of childcare options available; the...
Working as a Pregnant Mom
When you run your own business and you find yourself pregnant, you are definitely in a unique situation. On one hand you are probably able, to some degree, to create your own schedule. This makes it easier of course when you have to go to doctor appointments or...
Finding Flexibility in Work and Parenting
I worked full-time in media companies for 17 years before going to work for myself in 2001, when my two children were 3-1/2 years and 16 months old. I had a third child but never stopped working, because I have the ultimate flexible job. I've always felt lucky that I...
Back Up Childcare Options
Once you have chosen your primary childcare option, your job is not done yet. As a mother, you know that surprise is one of the key elements in parenting. It’s inevitable, we learn to deal with it, and sometimes we use it to our advantage. It’s difficult to fully...
Stay-at-home mother’s work worth $138,095 a year
If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday. This reflected a 3 percent raise from last year's...
Working Mom Worry
Do you worry about your children? Of course you do. We all do! As a parent, a little bit of anxiety is natural. In addition to the stress of being a parent, as a working mother, you have the additional stress of "working mom worry," and that type of worrying offers...
Woman’s Work: Looking to hire? Hire stay-at-home moms.
Entrepreneur Magazine - January 2007 Your best talent pool is closer to home than you think: Well-educated Gen X moms with impressive resumes are leaving the work force to raise children, but they're keeping a toe in the work waters. "Our research shows that two out...