With summer vacation from school upon us, parents with home based businesses must juggle these tasks along with child caring ones.  If the youngsters are older, they can care for themselves and even help you in your business.  When they’re younger, they tend to be underfoot so you need to learn how to be productive regardless.
 *If your youngsters take naps, you may find this an ideal time for working.  However, you must be well organized so that you can be productive during this time and not waste it with unrelated tasks.
 *Perhaps you can involve your children in projects in the …read more

Hard times make people inventive.  One of the newest and hottest home business ideas around is the used clothing store-in-a-closet idea.  The Wall Street Journal recently reported that women are selling their used clothing directly from home.
When I first read the title, I thought these women were selling on eBay.  Nope, they are selling their clothes directly from home.  Many of us have a variety of clothing at home, in many sizes, styles, and colors. I also know a few women (some of them in my family!) who have many pairs of shoes that could be sold.
Advertising would be relatively …read more

Last week I wrote about un-supportive spouses/significant others/partners.  But un-supportive children are a different story.
An adult has a choice and two adults can have a meaningful, if spirited, conversation and come to some conclusion.  But can you persuade a child to be understanding and supportive?
Well, I guess you can bribe them, but I’ve found that doesn’t work for very long.  And, like all bribes, they keep escalating.  So pretty soon they own the house…and the car… and you’re in trouble.
So what do you do? How do you get your children to support you in your decision to work from home? …read more

I usually go right to the source when I find news articles of interest, but this time, I wanted to give credit to another “work from home” blog:  Empowering Moms.  They posted an article from CNN about “Companies that will hire you to work at home.” Many new work-at-home jobs are being created, and many companies are transitioning to home-based jobs to cut costs and keep valuable employees.
The jobs in the CNN article seem to fall into a few categories:

Call centers/Advice centers.  These require you to be on the line to receive calls, which might be difficult if you have …read more