Can You Juggle Things Enough to Work at Home and Be a Mother?

Working from home and being a mother might sound like an easy option but it does have some pitfalls that need to be dealt with from the start. The first one, of course, is teaching your children that when you are working you are not to be interrupted, especially when you're on the telephone.

Making a sales pitch, or negotiating a deal on the phone while Junior is screeching for attention is not the easiest thing to do. It could lead to your not being taken seriously, losing a deal, or even losing your job. If you are self employed you might even sound as though you aren't serious about what you do.

So, the main pitfall of working at home and being a mother is your children. Making rules and setting times for work is the best approach here but then the other pitfalls come into play. What do you do when your children are sick, genuinely need your attention, or look as though they might injure themselves?

Simple, you do what you always do as a mother and drop everything to attend to them. In some ways this makes working from home more difficult than actually going out and doing a job. You are there, on the spot and you can't ignore your children. After all, they are most probably the reason why you opted to work from home in the first place.

Although there are pitfalls to working at home and being a mother there are advantages. You can earn an extra income while you are doing two jobs. After all, multi tasking is what women are so good at. If you can successfully combine the two roles everyone stays happy.

You are already doing several jobs as cook, laundry worker, cleaner, child teacher, wife and general 'go for', so what's another one? There is a really big pitfall to working at home and being a mother though, you have so many roles to perform that you lose sight of who you really are. So, stay organized and in control.