The ones you really love and go to the absolute end of the world for!
With the school summer holidays starting (for some children it has already started!), all the juggling and activities you’ll be doing to keep the children entertained will likely have a huge impact on your working week – especially if you’re a mumpreneur.
Many teenagers are carrying dangerously heavy bags to school that weigh up to 10-15% their own body weight, and this is putting them at risk of back pain in and related disorders the future, according to a new study.
If you’re the mum of a conscientious student, you’ll often marvel at how they manage to carry such heavy bags. It may look like they are trying hard at school, but according to findings published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, the posed threat by the substantial weight is made even greater by the fact that many teens do not get enough exercise.
School holidays are typical times of the year when website traffic goes down – with juggling the demands of the children at home and just not having enough time or energy to browse, the impact hits everyone, so don’t get despondent if you notice that your website traffic suddenly takes a dive!
The main goal for most internet marketers would be to try and get as many visitors as they can. And yes – if you have an online business that you are promoting online, you fall into the ‘internet marketer’ bracket, too!
Driving more traffic can be very easy for some people, but for others it can be an impossible task – especially if you don’t really know what you’re doing.
The problem really lies in your strategy and the things that you write about on your website. Is it worth reading? Is it something that people will click on if they read the excerpt on Facebook?
As every working mum knows September means the start of the new school year, and the kids heading back to the classroom after the summer break.
For many mums, with the kids out of their hair, this time of year brings a chance to explore new earning opportunities. With the kids occupied once again, direct selling offers working mothers a flexible, independent way to supplement their family income.
Direct selling has low start-up costs, and offers mums the opportunity to choose their own flexible hours to fit around their family commitments.
Has your youngest just started school, leaving you with more time on your hands and a yearning to start doing something that will earn you some money?
Perhaps spending more time with the children during the summer holidays has reignited your dream of sustaining your family with your own business and you are raring to get started.
This week, we are going to look at online businesses and what they could mean for busy mums who want to either earn an extra income or gradually remove themselves from their employers financial grip! By Friday you’ll know everything you need to know to turn your online business from a dream to reality.
Day 1: The home business roadmap
Have you been at home with the kids for what seems to be like an eternity? Is your first or last youngest child off to school in September ?
Being a mum of three ( Robert now 22, and twins Tomas and Maisie seven) I know when the new term starts in September and your little ones are off to ‘big’ school it makes you start thinking about what are you going to do withnyour time, and the word ‘work’ pops into your head.
This is an amazing time and such an exciting chapter for you to embrace joining the workforce if you’ve had a break for a while.
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School summer holidays are the most expensive in the school calendar. With at least six weeks off, the cost of holidays and keeping the kids entertained without breaking the bank is an ever-juggling phenomena.
That’s only part of the spend though – what about feeding the family while out on all those must-see sights and never-ending activities?
We’ve compiled a list of great family friendly places to eat while out and about with the kids, that will save you money as well.
Now that schools have broken up, have you had a chance to look through your child’s report yet?
If you’re panicking that your child’s maths results just don’t add up, then who else would you have as a private tutor if you could than maths whizz Carol Vorderman?
Lucky then that you don’t have to try to get the impossible (Carol is a busy working celebrity mother of two herself!) – but you can get something very close to it by way of Carol’s Themathsfactor.com
Carol Vorderman has just reopened her interactive online summer Maths School at Themathsfactor.com for the second year running and Motherswhowork.co.uk is offering 12 lucky parents the chance to win a FREE SUMMER SCHOOL MATHS PACKAGE for their child, running from July to the end of September.
According to research by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) 93% of teachers had received gifts from their pupils at the end of the year.
The popular American trend is becoming the norm here in the UK, too. The only thing is, just what do you buy a teacher and/or head teacher that you probably don’t know too well on a personal level.
Start with a decent card
I was amazed when I saw how many thank you cards for teacher when I popped into my local supermarket a couple of weeks ago – it’s a sure sign that the trend if giving something to teachers is really a popular trend, as the ATL survey of it’s members found in 2010.
If you are a mum of school aged children, you may well be relieved to get some respite – not of the school run, but because you can avoid other mums at the school gate…
And not, it’s not because of back biting, fake smiles, getting blanked by other mums or boring small talk (as annoying as they may be!), but it’s probably because you want a much-needed break from the indiscreet fashion and beauty contests or just feeling inadequate about your attempts to keep up appearances.
According to a recent surgery, 50% of mums feel under pressure to look good because of other mums and surprisingly only 10% feel the same pressure from celeb mums. But despite this, only a third of mums spend less than five minutes in the morning doing their make-up compared to one-fifth of women who do not have children.
Last week, there was a lot in the press about how the Easter holidays is going to affect working parents.
I was quoted in the Daily Mail, and appeared on BBC Breakfast to talk about how it will affect parents, but obviously this won’t call a stop (neither should it, I might add) to Easter holidays.
So, what can you do to ease the pressure at work if your child is one of those who will only be spending around seven days at school in April?
1. Nanny share
Some of you may be doig this already, but it you don’t then you can get together with two or three parents with children at your child’s school, and find a nannyt o look after them, therefore reducing the cost of you paying for one nanny yourself.
Mumpreneur Nicky Grant has launched www.afterschoolcare.co.uk, a web-based venture that seeks to match working mothers with enthusiastic and experienced child carer providers.
As well as nannies, nursery nurses and teachers, the site also attracts students, part-time workers and grandmothers with a wealth of experience raising children – and a bit of time to spare.
After School Care was set up by Nicky in Buckinghamshire in response to her own experience, and research, indicating that working women with school-aged children don’t want to employ a full-time nanny and are increasingly looking for part-time care before and after school.
“The credit crunch has meant that everyone has had to look again at cutting costs and a lot of mothers who work and have school aged children no longer want to pay for fulltime childcare,” says Nicky.
