Juggling Homeschooling and Growing A Home-Based Businesses

Many working moms find it difficult to return home after a long day at work and then still make dinner check homework, bathing children, reading a bedtime story, clean the house, and list goes on. Now imagine trying to run your home business AND home of your Kindergartner. How can it be done? Good planning is essential to the performance of any home business. This is particularly necessary when homeschooling at the same time. It is important to set aside time each day for work tasks and academic tasks. Here are some things that can be done to integrate the school-house in everyday life: Math – Make a batch of pancakes for breakfast and your child to help you. As you measure the ingredients together, your child learns math concepts and you’ll both enjoy breakfast together. Social Studies – Take a half day off and take a trip to a local museum. Language Arts – during your morning break of 15 minutes, help your child practice writing letters. EP – Take a break from the afternoon of 15 minutes, go outside and throw a ball with your child. Science – Teach your child’s teeth during brushing teeth at bedtime. There are many opportunities to teach your children that are easy to implement while working at home. There are times during my break when I iron around while my daughter is reading aloud to me or work on a spreadsheet. While cooking dinner, she can be close to the practice table to write or work on a craft project. When we’re driving in town, we discuss what we see – signs, buildings in the neighborhoods, the animals, we might see. At the grocery store for your child can help you keep score, choose red apples, pointing how much is spent. Take a walk, go to the park, visit the library. Other resources we use include Sid the Science Kid on PBS. This half-hour show teaches young people about science through play. Then your child can go online and play games Sid the Science Kid and learn more. While I encourage you to spend time with your child to do these activities, sometimes it is good to know they can do these activities and even learn while you’re busy working on a client project. My husband and I both worked at home for three years – since our daughter two years. Not only did she learn to read by three of our businesses have increased. Yes, it can be difficult at times. Some days are more productive than others. But with proper planning in place and see the daily tasks as an opportunity to teach our children, we can juggle homeschooling and develop our business successfully. Are you homeschooling and running a home business? What advice would you share? * You are welcome to reprint this article provided the author bio is included.