Parenting With A Home Business
Getting Work Done When You Just Can’t Distract The Kids
Hi Folks
A blog for the wealthy affiliate moms and dads who stay at home because of the kids.
When you work at home, one of the biggest challenges can be keeping the kids busy. There will be the days when the usual tactics won’t distract them. Nonetheless you just have to get some work done. It might just be time to do something the kids won’t expect.
Some work at home jobs and businesses may not require you to actually be at home. Can you bring a laptop and work at the playground, library or fast food restaurant? You’ll still have to keep an eye on the kids, but they’ll have a chance to release that pent-up energy.
Tips To Keep Kids Busy When You Need To Get Work Done
There will be times you may have to take advantage of the flexibility your work at home job will allow you. Go and play with them. Find something fun to do with them for a while.
Don’t make a habit of this though or your kids may expect you to drop everything to play with them. But there are times when you can make exceptions.
How To Work To A Schedule
Not all work at home parents can do this, of course. Some of your work at home business tasks do require you have a set schedule. In that case, have someone you can call on to help. This doesn’t have to be another adult. Having an older child from the neighbourhood come over can be enough to let you get some work done.
If you are regularly having problems with the kids needing your attention while you are trying to work, it may be time to reassess your home office hours. Children’s needs do change as they get older, so the schedule that worked perfectly for your toddler may not work now.
Remind yourself as often as you can why you decided to work at home in the first place. It’s easy to get priorities mixed up when you have a schedule to keep and deadlines to meet. Your children need you too so let them know how much they mean to you.
Its been a long time since I had these sort of everyday problems of having kids underfoot while I was trying to get some work done. Nonetheless I've been there and know how hard it can be. Therefore I'm asking all you moms and dads here at wealthy affiliate to pass on your own tips and advice.
Do so via a comment below. I'm sure any help will be appreciated.
Have a great week folks and be successful.
Robert Allan
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I try to get every thing done before my grandson calls to pick him up then there is a snack to prepare and then supper to put on then clean up. From breakfast to off to school I have a good 6 hours in the day. till after supper clean up I have another 3 hour. I think 9 hours is enough but I have my week ends to look forward to try to turn every thing off by Friday night.
We need balance in our lives also. Maybe I will get to be a great grandparent some day and to old to enjoy it.
I'm blessed to have what I have know but being a parent and a grandparent was not what I thought I would be going at this time of my life. It's like the never ending story LOL
I guess there is always a better way
Linda
Hi Again Linda and thank you for your input.
You seem to have a good system going that works for you and that is the secret.
It may not work for someone else but it works for you.
If you're happy with they way you can sort out your day/week then stick to it.
One thing though - don't forget to pencil in some ME time.
You have to have those times during the day/week when its all about You!
I don't get to see my grandkids simply because my 2 girls live so far away from me and of course they have their own lives to lead.
I'm actually a great granddad and way too young for that lol.
Your time will come as well and you will be glad of the rest when they go back home lol
Its like a madhouse here when they all land at once so I know what I'm talking about.
You enjoy your kids/grandkids whenever you can Linda coz they really do grow up very fast.
have a great day today and remember that 'Me' time.
Robert
Great posts and if you can work for home and still spend time with your kids, are the best thing to do.
Yes indeed Theo.
You just have to find the time to do both.
That's where a good schedule comes in handy.
Make one and try your very best to stick to it.
Thank you for reading my blog and for your comment.
Have a great Tuesday.
Robert
Hello Robert.
What a great post!!!!
The photos are so true of what it is like trying to get something done at home with the children all around you!
I enjoyed a real belly laugh as I read your post and viewed your photos! Thank you for that laughter!!
I agree 100% on the grandparent note!
Wonderful post.
It is very uplifting while addressing a genuine issue for stay-at-home working parents.
Susan
Hello Dear Lady, just sent you an email.
Glad you liked my blog.
It was meant to be lighthearted with an underlying message to those moms and dads who have to stay at home for various reasons and have a work from home business as well.
Now I best reply to some more messages and then off for the night.
Thank you for your kind comment.
Its good to be appreciated.
Robert
Far too fast Dennis.
Then along come the grandkids and it starts all over again.
Wouldn't change it for the world though.
Have a great day.
Robert
Hi Pablo, a lot of patience needed for the little ones no matter if you have work to do or not.
Have a great day.
Robert
Thanks Robert for writing this blog.
It took me a few years ago, when I was a single working mom and had to support two young boys.
This was before internet business, I used to teach Quilting to a few groups and I used to make hand made items to make a living.
I used to work as much as I could while my two boys where at school, but when they had summer vacations they used to stay at home most of the time, so I had to find the way to keep working and make a live for my family while my children spent all the time at home.
The best way I found to solve this problem was to sit down and talk to them.
So I told them, if I didn't work, as a family we might have some money problems, so I will do my best to keep at my work and they could do their best to stay at home while I had to go to work for just a couple of hours.
The deal was to keep some free time so we could spend some quality time together and they didn't get to bored during their vacations periods.
My children said yes to this plan and everything worked ok.
One day I was watching some TV and my youngest son looked at me, (he was only 8 years old then) and he told me...
"-don't you think you're watching too much TV. what about going to sew something so we don't miss some money to have a good living?
"Oh my!!" I thought, "poor little one!" he was worried about money!
So I told him I was doing ok by that time, so I could take one afternoon off and watch some TV.
He smiled to me and he also spend that afternoon watching some TV with me.
In that time I worked off line, part time, I worked sharing what I knew to make, I was lucky to find enough people willing to pay me to teach them my crafts.
I made enough to pay off my house and make a living for my children and for myself.
Today my children are young adults and they are on their own, I have good memories of that time.
Times have changed, and we are lucky to be able to work from home, and we are so lucky to have found WA where we can learn to make good and real money online.
What worked for me, was to talk to my children and talk with the true.
Parents with young children will face some challenges at home, but I find if you talk to them, children will understand.
I have good memories of me spending long hours in front of my sewing machine, while my children where at the same room doing their homework or playing!
Thanks Robert for letting me share my memories here, hope my story helps others.
Alejandra.
Hello Alejandra
Thank you for your long comment, it was a joy to read of your experiences raising your own kids.
Your story rand many bells with me.
What you were doing with quilting and sewing we called a cottage industry.
Mainly it was farming folk as we were.
We had to make a living any way we could.
The women folk and 'Big' girls did the sewing work and made baskets and other containers from willow bushes and the men and sometimes the older boys made things from what we could find on the land.
I use to make Shepherd Crooks and sell them at the little farming markets that were usually held once a month.
We kids usually had chores to do when we came home from school as well and of course do homework for the next day and after a couple of hours outside we were usually too tired to do anything but fall asleep.
During the holidays (vacations) we had even more chores to do as well as going out to find food from the lad so that the women folk could actually make meals.
It was a hard life but it made us the people we are today.
Strong, Independent with a never say die to any situation we find ourselves in.
We get on with it and god help anyone who gets in our way.
Thank you once again for your great comment Alejandra and I hope you are having a great day over there in SW Quebec.
Robert
Hello Carol all the way over there in Brisbane and thank you for taking the time to read my blog.
Thank you also for your comment.
I guess you're like me in that its been a while since your kids took up a lot of your time but that image at the bottom says it all does it not?
Hope you're having a great day Carol.
Robert
Yes, Rober, the image says it all! I have 5 grandchildren, the youngest is 18 yrs old so I guess I have to wait for great grand kiddies now :))
I have one great grand daughter and I'm way too young to be a great granddad lol.
Of course the wee one thinks differently, she's all over you like a rash looking for sweets lol.
Have a good one Carol.
Robert
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Thanks Robert for this great post! I'm a father too. And even I never was a stay home father having a home business, I did spend quite some time with them. I remember we always made the homework together and I was their coach in learning for ahead of any test. I went with them to different places on Saturdays doing sometimes some crazy things so my wife could have a bit time for herself. Nowadays they are young adults. But when we come together we often talk about those times.
Hi Erica and thank you for your input.
Lots of parents, single or not have to spare time for the kids.
When I worked on the land I used to take my youngest daughter with me all the time from when she starting walking.
As she got a wee bit older as soon as she saw me getting ready to go out she was off to get her own boots and coat and right behind me.
Great days with lot of great memories.
Have a great Thursday Eric.
Robert