What type of a mompreneur are you?

Posted on 23. Jun, 2007 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein in Blog

There are really three different ways you can work and take care of your kids.

Work and care for your kids at the same time.
Work while your kids are asleep.
Work while your kids are at school, preschool, daycare, or with a nanny/babysitter/family member.

I do all three. Right now for instance, I am writing my blog during Gracie’s nap. During the week I do most of my work while she is at preschool — especially writing, client work, teleclasses, interviews, and meetings. But I also work while she is underfoot – answering email and doing web 2.0 stuff (blog comments, forum posts, linking).

But I wonder — since I have Gracie in preschool, should I only use that time for work, and not let work spill over into Gracie time? Is it wrong for me to be reading email when she is around (besides, I should not be checking & reading email that much anyway)?

How are moms able to run their business with no childcare of any kind? And I don’t just mean moms with babies and toddlers – I also know of moms who homeschool and run a home business. Do they just work while the kids are sleeping? Or do they have family or friends who help? Or do they have different types of kids (unlike mine, kids who are quiet and spend time with themselves)?

Here’s a more important question — why do I worry about it?

Tags: Childcare

Bee

I do all 3 as well. I don't have childcare, but my son is in pre-school. I know sometimes there is guilt that I may spend too much time working when I should be playing with them, but my kids do play well on their own and isn't independant play good for them? I don't remember playing with my mom at all as a child, she was a WAHM, one of the originals I suppose. I had a good childhood playing on my own, with my brothers and with friends as I got older. I think now-a-days it seems moms are so obcessed with having to entertain their kids every second of the day and cram so many activies and learning things in they forget that is not how we were raised necessarily and we are, for the most part, ok. My kids are playing on the floor right now and my 4 year old is "reading" my 20 month old a book. LOL