Work at Home Mums – What’s the Alternative?

Women who work become mums, and mums ultimately become working mums, either working for a boss or choosing to be work at home mums. Various factors influence the length of time mothers remain at home full-time to mind their kids and the family home. Financial worries and maternity leave contracts are at the top of the reasons list for going back to work. Women return to work for an company either full-time or part-time, usually prior to their children commencing primary school. Many daycare centres promote that they take on infants and children from the age of 6 weeks. You read right, I said weeks, not months.

I surely do not plan to instill fault on mothers who place their children in daycare so that they can go back to work. Then again, for mums going back to work without a real desire and inclination to do so will each time make me feel disconcerted. It is sad to notice that my generation, the one it, and the one which follows too, is full of women who would love to remain home and look after their children, but do something else, usually because of finances. Can't we mums just be mums, be present, focused, comfortable, devoted and be the primary influence in our children's lives? Sounds naive, I know. However these are beliefs that work at home mums have shared for decades.

Work at home mums have seized a chance to be home with their children, at the same time as working around their family responsibilities and adding an revenue to the household. Who says it is not possible to have the best of both worlds, being a full-time stay-at-home mum and working? The employer? The parental leave agreement? The daycare centre? The bank manager?

Thus for mothers yet to get back to the working mass, what is the other choice to joining the work at home mums who have elected to be home with their kids without having to sacrifice an income and enjoying professional activities? The other choice to owning a business from home is habitually to physically go to work for an employer, send your little ones to daycare, forfeit some of your revenue for child care costs, see your kids part-time and relinquish the independence you could have with your personal duties if you worked for yourself.

No matter what you decide to do for work, as a mum who needs to work and receive a salary, consider your options. Neither road is necessarily easier. Work at home mums experience numerous challenges. Mums working for companies do too. The variance may be in the results and outcomes you are able to produce for yourself, your children and your loved ones, in terms of revenue, lifestyle, flexibility and your sense of fulfillment. So question yourself: What's the other option?

Justine Simard is a mum and home business owner helping other mums being successful at working from home around their children, while creating a high income, a better family lifestyle and more freedom. Visit Work At Home Mums to find out how you can join other successful work at home mums and achieve your personal life goals. to find out how you can join other successful work at home mums and achieve your personal life goals.

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