Juggling Workshop
Working Moms' Q & A

The daily tug-of-war between your career and your kids can leave you torn between the two worlds. Where do you turn? The Juggling Workshop! Ask questions and share suggestions about juggling work and family.

This week's question:

Dierdre,

Just because you work from home doesn't make it any easier. The perception people have is that you'll be able to take care of kids and work at the same time. It doesn't happen that way. So the feelng that you are juggling just as much as if you were working outside your home is accurate. You are.

Most moms who work at home try to set schedules and stick to them as much as possible. They also try to have their kids cared for either in daycare or with a caregiver for a portion of the day so they are free to work. Then they let clients know those are the hours that they are available to for meetings, conference calls, etc. Several women I know have girls between 11-14 who are daughters of friends come after school to play with their young children. They often pick them up after school and take them home for dinner. It buys them a couple more hours of worktime each day. Of course there are the deadline that have you working until 4 a.m., but that comes with the territory. But if you can divide your day up into relatively predictable work sessions, i.e, mornings when the kids are in daycare, late afternoon, and 2-3 hours after they go to bed, you can get a lot of work done and feel less stressed. And you can do the laundry at the same time, which you could never do at the office!

Good luck.

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-- Cathy Feldman

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