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Can you Have a Business and Kids?
By: Ioannis Mitrou

Many parents want to have a work at home business so that they can
spend more time with their children and give them a better quality of life.
This is a noble idea and in theory sounds great but as with most
things, when you put it into practice it is not so perfect. There are a lot
of challenges to working at home and caring for your children at the
same time. If you are looking to have a mix of a home business and kids
then you are going to have a very differently defined work schedule than
a parent that works out side of the home. It can be difficult to make
your kids understand that even though mommy or daddy are at home, they
are working and cannot be disturbed. You are going to have to train
your children to accept this fact and it will not be easy at first.

If you want to be successful with a home based business or even just
work at home employment you are going to have to resign yourself to the
fact that you are just not going to get all the work done that you would
like to. Now on occasion you might, but most of the time you probably
will come close but not get all of your work done. Most people that
work at home will take on more than they realistically can do and if you
throw some kids into the mix, then all bets are off. If you are
looking to work and have your children around as well you never know when you
are going to have to stop work and deal with some sort of emergency.
However there are ways to deal with this and set yourself up so that
maybe you can stop the amount of time you are disturbed or even schedule
the time as well.

The best thing you can do to make sure that you have a stress free work
day is to realize that you have to be flexible. If you are willing and
able to approach your work with an attitude that you have to be
flexible then you will have a better quality of life and your business and
kids can happily coexist. An example of this flexible attitude is if
your kids need some attention from you during the time you have allotted
for work, what is the best way to handle this? You need to resign
yourself to the fact that you will need to take a break and help them with
what they need. It might even be better for your mindset if you just
schedule a break at a certain time each day and let your children know
that they need to not disturb you until break time. You might then need
to make up that time for your business after they have gone to bed.
Another strategy that you might be able to use to get that undisturbed
work time is to give them motivation through the enticement of fun time or
play time with mommy or daddy. The deal could be that if your children
give you so many hours of undisturbed business time then you will give
them an hour of fun at the park or the zoo or some additional activity
they like.

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