5 Reasons Why You Should Consider Being a Work at Home Mom
If you're a new mom, you probably dream about staying home with the baby instead of heading back to work in a few weeks.
If your family budget can't allow you to quit your job, you might want to consider working at home, instead.
If you're one of the lucky ones, you work for a company that encourages telecommuting.
However, telecommuting is still a very long way off for most employees, although more and more companies are testing it each year.
For the rest of us, working at home usually means finding a home-based business that we can do while taking care of a child, like web publishing or website design.
Learning how to be successful in any home-based business takes time and a lot of commitment, but many mothers have found that it's worth the effort.
Here are just a few of the reasons why: 1.
More Quality Time With Your Baby In the first few months, the desire to bond with your baby is extremely strong.
Even if you know that your baby is well-cared for in a day care setting or by a nanny, the mothering instinct is still pulling you to stay home.
If you work at home, either by telecommuting or working a home-based business, you have that bonding time with your baby.
When your baby is tiny and spending most of her time asleep, it's fairly easy to schedule your work around naps and feeding times.
As baby grows older, this becomes more difficult, and may require all your executive skills.
But many women who find this challenging also say it's worth it, because they get more time with their child.
2.
Being Able to Schedule Fun Activities You can't run to the zoo or take your child to the museum every day if you work at home, but you do have the opportunity to schedule these fun activities into your day at least once a week.
It may mean that you need to get up a bit earlier or stay up a bit later, doing the work that didn't get done during the outing, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that you spent time with your child doing something she loves.
3.
No Time Spent Commuting Before you had your baby, you may have enjoyed the quiet time during your morning and evening commute.
In fact, for many people the commute time is the only moments they have all day when no one is expecting you to do something for them.
After your baby is born, however, you can't help but see that half hour or more as wasted time when you could be doing what you really want to do - spending time with your child.
If you normally spend 30 minutes each morning an evening driving to work or riding a bus, that's at least one more book you could have read to your child, one more tickle session, one more batch of cookies you bake together.
4.
Discover Your Real Priorities When you go to work every day, the expectations and needs of the boss, your coworkers and even your family are often so overwhelming that you have no time to determine what you really think is important.
Once you give up commuting to work, you have a bit more time to reconsider the things in your life that once seemed important, but may not matter so much any more.
If you worked hard before, even doing as much overtime as you could to increase your paycheck, you may have spent that money on lattes, dinner out, expensive clothes and entertainment.
Or perhaps you pushed for every promotion so you could afford an expensive car and a home in the "right" neighborhood, just to fit the expectations of your family and coworkers.
Now that you stay at home, you may discover that none of those things really matter any more.
That means you can work fewer hours and still have enough money for the things you really need.
5.
Less Stress With no commute, no boss breathing down your neck, no office politics, and no worries about the care your child might be receiving while you're not there, there's much less stress.
Many people hold on to the stress that builds up at the office long into the evening, and that edginess you feel affects your relationship with your kids.
Working at home lets you leave the office behind -- for good.
There are challenges involved for moms who decide to work at home, but thousands of mothers are happy they're working at home
If your family budget can't allow you to quit your job, you might want to consider working at home, instead.
If you're one of the lucky ones, you work for a company that encourages telecommuting.
However, telecommuting is still a very long way off for most employees, although more and more companies are testing it each year.
For the rest of us, working at home usually means finding a home-based business that we can do while taking care of a child, like web publishing or website design.
Learning how to be successful in any home-based business takes time and a lot of commitment, but many mothers have found that it's worth the effort.
Here are just a few of the reasons why: 1.
More Quality Time With Your Baby In the first few months, the desire to bond with your baby is extremely strong.
Even if you know that your baby is well-cared for in a day care setting or by a nanny, the mothering instinct is still pulling you to stay home.
If you work at home, either by telecommuting or working a home-based business, you have that bonding time with your baby.
When your baby is tiny and spending most of her time asleep, it's fairly easy to schedule your work around naps and feeding times.
As baby grows older, this becomes more difficult, and may require all your executive skills.
But many women who find this challenging also say it's worth it, because they get more time with their child.
2.
Being Able to Schedule Fun Activities You can't run to the zoo or take your child to the museum every day if you work at home, but you do have the opportunity to schedule these fun activities into your day at least once a week.
It may mean that you need to get up a bit earlier or stay up a bit later, doing the work that didn't get done during the outing, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that you spent time with your child doing something she loves.
3.
No Time Spent Commuting Before you had your baby, you may have enjoyed the quiet time during your morning and evening commute.
In fact, for many people the commute time is the only moments they have all day when no one is expecting you to do something for them.
After your baby is born, however, you can't help but see that half hour or more as wasted time when you could be doing what you really want to do - spending time with your child.
If you normally spend 30 minutes each morning an evening driving to work or riding a bus, that's at least one more book you could have read to your child, one more tickle session, one more batch of cookies you bake together.
4.
Discover Your Real Priorities When you go to work every day, the expectations and needs of the boss, your coworkers and even your family are often so overwhelming that you have no time to determine what you really think is important.
Once you give up commuting to work, you have a bit more time to reconsider the things in your life that once seemed important, but may not matter so much any more.
If you worked hard before, even doing as much overtime as you could to increase your paycheck, you may have spent that money on lattes, dinner out, expensive clothes and entertainment.
Or perhaps you pushed for every promotion so you could afford an expensive car and a home in the "right" neighborhood, just to fit the expectations of your family and coworkers.
Now that you stay at home, you may discover that none of those things really matter any more.
That means you can work fewer hours and still have enough money for the things you really need.
5.
Less Stress With no commute, no boss breathing down your neck, no office politics, and no worries about the care your child might be receiving while you're not there, there's much less stress.
Many people hold on to the stress that builds up at the office long into the evening, and that edginess you feel affects your relationship with your kids.
Working at home lets you leave the office behind -- for good.
There are challenges involved for moms who decide to work at home, but thousands of mothers are happy they're working at home