Combining motherhood and working is a never ending problem. More and more women are setting up a business from home, or working away from the office and on the internet. Working from home can be the ideal solution when there are small children involved.Having a home based income allows you to be a hands-on parent and contribute to the family income at the same time. It is an ideal time to be working from home and to build up a business that can eventually become as large as you like.With cities extending further and further out from the main hub, people are taking longer and longer to commute to work, and it is quite harrowing for a women to spend extra hours commuting when she feels she should be home with the children.With the age of the internet women can work out of the office, or they can set up a business for themselves on the internet, develop a hobby into a business or even start something new which may require some study.When turning a hobby into a business you are working with something that you already enjoy and if you are enjoying your […]
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Shmuley Boteach, an accomplished theologian, writer and moral leader, writes in his article “Six Values for Raising Outstanding Children” that it is important to stress purpose as opposed to happiness. He goes on to say that telling kids, “I just want you to be happy” is one of the silliest parenting mantras ever. What if being a lazy beachcomber, womanizer or drug dealer makes him happy?Really makes you think doesn’t it?Boteach’s premise is that it is the pursuit of PURPOSE rather than pursuit of happiness that makes people happiest. If we devote ourselves to a purpose that we find meaningful, fulfillment and happiness will follow. Let’s work through that idea….How often in your life have you heard people say “I deserve to be happy” “Life is too short…” etc? But why do we feel like we are simply entitled to be happy? Are we expecting others to do it for us? How? And is our own happiness the only reason that we exist? Big questions!If you are among us “over 40″ crowd, no doubt you have experienced some sort of “mid life crisis” that is the brunt of so much humor. Doesn’t the […]
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‘Keep on telling me what I am, and that’s what I’ll become’.Be careful how you describe your children to their faces, to your friends and listen to what other family members say about each other and be mindful of accepting what you hear from your child’s teachers. Labels are easy to give and hard to undo.Remember the nicknames, the stories told and the jokes you received as a child. And just be aware of the nicknames, jokes and stories and teasing that goes on in your house. These are the signs that family members are cast into roles and given labels to match.’Oh, he’s the clever one in the family but he hasn’t got any common sense’, ‘She’s a bit of a tearaway’ ‘My youngest is so untidy and clumsy” “Oh, she’s the artistic one.”Labelling is disabling and limiting if you are not aware of it as children are sensitive to labelling and can see it as criticism. They can also take this forward throughout their life - still thinking they are the “bad at maths one” all their life. So don’t beat yourself up if you’ve suddenly noticed this in your family just make a conscious effort to […]
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