Telecommuting with a Two-Year-Old

As I begin writing this, my two-year-old is shaking a can of Diet Nestea with his right hand and scribbling on the mouse pad with his left. Ahh, “the joy of being ambidextrous”. Before I started to work from home I would have missed out on most of these innocent activities. Now I continue to type, secure and confident that I (thank God), have a life of my own and can spend more quality time with my child.

My life is truly the tastiest blend of all worldly ingredients: I "earn my keep", I am "at home for the family", and I don't have to "pay someone to take care of our son". Most important, I say: I now get to do something I like and not wonder about every little thing my son does when I’m working!

You see, back before I was working from home, I frenziedly read six monthly baby magazines and numerous baby books to see how well my son "scored" developmentally-- to make sure he was not only "as good as" but better than all other children! (Actually, I read them until my son reached his "It's Fun to Tear up Paper" period. Before I worked from home, I was so tired at the end of the work day that I was, nervously monitoring my son’s activities and behavior. Now, I am much more at peace and enjoy being able tend to my son during the normal work day.

Now that I work from home, this is a much calmer, gentler, more confident era for me. While I get creative at writing, my adorable little co-pilot gets creative at drawing (sometimes even on paper), and watching the Blue's Clues ABC-123 video (he recites "AOL" and counts 1,2,3,4,6,9.) Now I relax more, confident that there's no need to worry about how good he is, since I know he is the best!  Though I now have more to do, my house is just as clean--or dirty--as it was before I worked from home. Also, my son now enjoys my company and the security of knowing that I am there for him.

I shouldn't have waited until he was 20 months old before I started to work from home, since I feel I have more control over my life and am doing something of which to be proud.  It also makes me feel good that my customers praise me for my writing talent, of which I can do at home instead of traveling to an outside office.

The moral of my story is:  Before you look for a traditional job outside the home, try to work at home first. I did, and I love it! By the way be sure to visit http://www.workingfromhomejobs.com when searching for that perfect work at home job.  I did and they were able to help me find work that I enjoy right from the comfort of home.  In case my testimony doesn't set you on fire, maybe my logic will. If you got an outside job, you'd have to hire a caregiver, commute to and from work, report to a boss, work certain hours, and probably live for the weekends. At home, you:  (a) Can earn money  (b) Stay at home with your small children to watch them learn things such as flushing the toilet 20 times    (c) Don't have to be sworn at--or swear at--other commuters   (d) Can work in your pajamas and talk to yourself without anyone being the wiser  (e) Can work whenever you want (f) Will no longer live for precious weekends, since every day will be precious  (g) Go shopping whenever you want--very important  (h) Still have something to put on your resume besides organizing nap and bed times, feeding, dressing, diapering, cajoling, going to the park, tickling, pretending to be Winnie the Pooh, etc.  Though I sincerely think those are valuable abilities, most employers don't have my superior mind.  I'm sure I could go through the entire alphabet, but I'm too lazy, and you might be like my husband, who would have stopped reading at (d). 

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