Call me “old-school” but I am convinced that at least one parent should be home with the kids minimally until they are school age. And it’s not a matter of sexism, but ideally this would be the mother”, considering the fact that she does have the proper equipment to meet the needs of baby. In the last few decades our country has moved away from the traditional familiy unit and often both parents have to work just to pay the bills, or even worse, your household only has one parent… you!
After she was born the idea of just leaving her with the local day-care was about comparable to the thought of having my thumbs cut off. To think that I would just take the sweetest, most important little being that I had ever known and just give her over to a group of strangers to watch over her most of the day was just purely insane to me.
Well, “Mommie” and I were able to make make provision to keep our daughter at home so that she could be with us. I is clear after talking to many other parents that the days of the father going to work and Mommy staying home and raising the children is now rare. This is most unfortunate. Most of us are in a situation where our kids are being raised by the government. Well, nearly all day-care facilities are regulated by some division of the government, as if that person, simply because they are employed by a government office, somehow has more understanding of our kids’ need than we do.
Many of you don’t have any other options though do you? I sympathize with any woman who has to be a single mom right now, especially with the prices for everything going up like a rocket. It is no easy task. Geez, day-care can cost as much as you earn. In some situations there is not point in even working, unless you want to spend it all on child-care and work for nothing. But, you have to buy food, and it’s not just all about you.
Regretfully, when it comes to finding some sort of work from home for moms-type work you will do an awful lot of searching without finding too much in the way of employment. The few opportunities that are real wage positions out there that allow you to work from home are far a few between and they are highly sought after.
A couple issues.
Firstly, the competition for these positions is incredibly fierce, and two, they usually don’t pay well.
Just after we brought our new baby home from the hospital we spent a ton of time searching for work from home moms-type work for “Mommy”. The hours just ticked off, searching, searching, searching. A couple months go by while you are doing this and any ad you find which seems decent gets filled the moment it is published. After a while you have to realize that you are simply wasting time searching, and even if you do find something fitting you have already invested hundreds hours searching for no pay.
One possibility to solve this problem would be to actually start your own home-based business. I know that you may be thinking that you don’t have enough money to start a business. This may be true. It could be that you have an interest in some topic or a particular talent that you would like to build a business on and you may have found that it required too much of an investment. Keep in mind that today there are many opportunities that work from home moms can use to start their own business which cost very little to get up and running.
The key is in finding something that is suited to you, which you have the skills to do, or which provides training so that you can develop your skills. Forget about franchises. They are expensive to start and most likely you will stay in the red for the first year or two, defeating the purpose of looking for work from home as a mom. Probably you are looking for something which can product income quickly, which doesn’t require too much of a learning curve or much investment.
I found network marketing to be a very workable option for work from home moms, even though I’m a work from home Dad. These days there are literally thousands of different network marketing opportunites to choose from, and with a bit of research, and knowing what to look for, one can find a company which suits their needs and wants. In choosing this optioin you really want to try and find a team or sponsor who has the ability and availability to assist you in getting started, not just in taking your money. Talk to them or spend some time reviewing any material they have available on their blog or other sites. You may be surprised how good a feel you can get for these people just by spending some time on their websites. And you may have to talk to a few of these guys before you are comfortable making a decision. The difference will be, unlike a “job”, these people will actually want to work with you provided you are fairly bright and ambitious.
But this type of work is very social and obviously flexible time-wise, even if you have a child in your lap. You may be surprised at how many others you will talk to who are also sitting there with their children in their lap! Should you be able to find the right sponsor, someone who can really teach you some solid internet marketing skills you will have a path to follow so that you can develop your own skills and cause increasing amounts of growth in your business as time goes on. Another thing to consider about starting such a business is that the majority of the work will be in the very beginning, in the learning curve, in the establishment of your marketing strategies, account creation, etc. Someone who really knows what they are doing can save time in the beginning by directing you so you are not just meandering all over the universe trying to figure out what to do. So you may have to search around for a bit to find someone who can sponsor you and who is wiling to help you, who has also been around in the game for a while. This could make it way easier for you, which is why I point this out as an option for you. Network marketing is one of the few fields where people are not only glad to welcome you into their business, but they are more than willing to help you learn, without charging you.
The rest is just getting to work and staying active with it.