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Work from Home Mom – Challenges and Rewards

A work from home mom experiences many challenges and rewards over the course of day-to-day living. While staying at home with your children can be a huge blessing, it can also be difficult. Learn about the pros and cons to being a work from home mom.

First, let’s talk about the negative aspects of being a work from home mom. Sometimes it’s hard to remember when you work from home to treat it like a real job. There are dishes to do, diapers to change or homework to help with, and a million other tasks moms do every day. It can be difficult to remember that in addition to these chores, work needs to be a priority.

And that’s another thing. When you are a work from home mom, often household duties tend to get ignored in favor of spending more time on the working task at hand. Dinner can be forgotten, laundry remains unfolded, and don’t even look at the unmade beds. It’s important to remember that if you are a work from home mom, you need help, whether that is a little assistance from your husband, your kids, or even an outside service.

Most moms that work out of the home do so because they want to spend more time with their children, but this can be a challenge for a work from home mom. Often, due to added household pressures and work itself, while there is a great deal of quantity time with the kids, it can be difficult to make quality time a priority. Try to keep a couple nights a week open for games, movies, or outings with the kids.

Working from home can mean isolation from adults as well. Grown-up conversations can be limited to online interactions and friends and family may not understand how much work you are really doing. Often, obligations to friends and family add up when a mom is a work from home mom, as these people think you “do nothing” all day.
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Stay at Home Mom Businesses – Finding Your Perfect Fit

By : Rayven Perkins

If you’ve been online for half a second, you have probably found thousands of websites out there trying to help you start your own stay at home mom businesses. Most tell you how easy it is to make money online, or how you can be making money in your sleep. All you need to do is sign on the dotted line…and pay a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to get started.

It can be frustrating for moms looking to start stay at home mom businesses to find the opportunities that are legitimate! Can you make money in your sleep? Perhaps, after several years of hard work. But none of it is as easy as it sounds. So how do you find the right opportunities for you?

First and foremost, you need to examine the following. How much time do you have to commit to your stay at home mom businesses? How much money do you have to contribute (sorry, but starting a business does take money, though you can do it on a shoestring)? And what are your passions in life?

Let’s take each of these three topics and break them down. First, there is time. As a stay at home mom, time might be something you have plenty of, especially if you have just one baby at home, or your children are off to school. Stay at home mom businesses take time. They take a commitment of time on a daily basis to work at your business, as well as a length of time of several months to a couple years to get your business off the ground. If you are looking to earn money at home, this needs to be a consideration.
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Frugal SAHM Back to School Tips

BY : Rayven Perkins

As frugal SAHM (stay at home moms), getting ready to send our kids back to school for another school year, there are a few tips that I recommend that can make the transition smoother, while saving money and even teaching your kids a thing or two about tightwad living.

1. Stock Up on Supplies

Late July and the month of August are the best times for a SAHM to get school supplies for literally pennies on the dollar. Most SAHMs get what is on their child’s supply list and are happy with their savings. But then, most moms also run out of sharp crayons, filler paper, notebooks and scissors (anyone here actually remember where their scissors are?) by mid-year. Be a frugal SAHM and spend a little extra money now to stock up on supplies to last you through the entire school year.

2. Color Coordinate

In our house, each child has his or her own color. It makes life so much easier! The red backpack, lunch box, pencil box, folders and notebooks belong to one child, while the blue belong to another. Now when someone leaves their notebook in the middle of the floor after school, I don’t have to dig around to try to figure out whose it is!

3. Butter Up the Teacher

Remember all those cheap school supplies you got? Well, with the economy as it currently is, more and more parents are not able to provide what their children need to be successful in school. Usually, it is the teachers that end up picking up the slack, at a great expense to their already tight funds. Consider donating extra supplies to your child’s teacher directly.

4. School Food

In our frugal SAHM house, we pack our lunches and snacks instead of purchasing them from school. Sunday is our preparedness day. We bake cookies and other treats to last the week (well, sometimes they get gobbled up early; we’ve learned to hide things from Daddy!) We also prewash, peel, and cut up veggies and put them into sandwich baggies for the week, such as carrots and celery. Juice boxes are stored in the freezer to keep lunch (and juice) cool until lunchtime everyday.
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