Can homeschooling moms own a successful home business and homeschool effectively?
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Can homeschooling moms own a successful home business and homeschool effectively? Homeschooling is becoming a hot trend for a lot of moms who have a home business. It is not only effective way to educate your kids but it is time efficient and productive for children. For women who have a home business of any kind, homeschooling is the best way to go. It is quite possible to manage homeschooling your kids and making money online and let me tell why.
I want to explain why I recommend moms who have a home business to homeschool their kids. Not every mom will have endurance to do and not every one will agree with what I think on this matter.
When I decided to make money online and I commited myself to becoming an enterpreneur, I had to make a decision about my kids. My kids are my main reason why I do online business and knowing how busy I was homeschooling was best option. You would think, “Tatyana is nuts with her ideas” But before you do that, let me tell what I think.
If my kids were in a traditional school enviroment they would be in school mostly of the time. Yes good for me but not for them. They would be exhaused, grouchy, sleepy or worst on sugar rush! I would still have to do homework with them and spend hours explaining what teacher was supposed to do. It will leave me brain fried and my 6 year old will not be a happy camper.
Their well being is a big factor. With my schedule I can homeschool my son in the morning or afternoon and even spread it out. It is not a chore for him but joy. My school does not always involve sitting at the desk and spelling words. Life is a big fun game. We do cooking together, baking, cleaning, and even do shopping. He learns things from me and we build trust and love for each other. We learn about how to connect with each other from day one and not when he turns 14
If I have to go on a business trip my husband homeschools him and it is so easy and so flexibile. As you can see there are few points that I want to make
1. Time
2. Building Relationship
3. Fun
That is the beauty of homeschooling for work at home moms. It is doable. Everyone can do it if they really want it. Want and desire are the keys to successful homeschooling for moms who want to make money from home.
My son has the appreciation for what I do. I work at home. I am a bread provider for the family as well as my husband. He knows my time. He knows my schedule and I respect our time together when we do projects and do homework.
I think managing myself is the imporant factor why I can do homeschoolig, run a home business, be a mom and a wife. It is simple if you make it simple. I do not get my son involved in too many things as sports, music and arts! . I do not want to overwhelm him with all activities. Overloading kids with too much to do will never leave time for yourself and family.
Here are 10 tips for homeschooling moms who want to work from home but do not have enough confidence if they can do it:
1. Plan your week activities ahead of time
2. Every morning spend time eating or cooking breakfast together with your kids. It builds an amazing bond with your children.
3. Start your school program with simple reviews and spend about 45 minutes per each session. If you are homeschooling a preschool age children, two to three hours or school with activities is plenty.
4. Try to be done with school before lunch or shortly after. I do my best to finish all the school work before 1.30PM.
5. Afternoon is the time when I am getting back to my clients and customers. My son is involved in his quite activities as drawing, painting, or working with his lego sets.
6. When evening comes, make sure you spend at least an hour with your spouse and kids. Spring is around the corner, so make sure to get out outside for at least 45 minutes without phone interruption.
7. Evening hours could be from 7.30-8.30 PM. That is what I do every day when I have to get back to my prospects and training team members
8. If you have a growing team in your existing business, it is a great idea to host a team call once a week and provide training that way you do not feel you are babysitting every single member of your team.
9. If you work at home and have a busy schedule with your homeschooling, do not be afraid to let everyone know what you do and your time schedule.
10. Have fun! There is no point to homeschool and have a business if you do not enjoy it! Ask for help from others in your family or business associates from time to time.
To find what business I recommend when you homeschool your kids please visit Instant Income Plan.
Have fun homeschooling and making bug bucks!
You deserve it!
Tatyana Gann
I want to explain why I recommend moms who have a home business to homeschool their kids. Not every mom will have endurance to do and not every one will agree with what I think on this matter.
When I decided to make money online and I commited myself to becoming an enterpreneur, I had to make a decision about my kids. My kids are my main reason why I do online business and knowing how busy I was homeschooling was best option. You would think, “Tatyana is nuts with her ideas” But before you do that, let me tell what I think.
If my kids were in a traditional school enviroment they would be in school mostly of the time. Yes good for me but not for them. They would be exhaused, grouchy, sleepy or worst on sugar rush! I would still have to do homework with them and spend hours explaining what teacher was supposed to do. It will leave me brain fried and my 6 year old will not be a happy camper.
Their well being is a big factor. With my schedule I can homeschool my son in the morning or afternoon and even spread it out. It is not a chore for him but joy. My school does not always involve sitting at the desk and spelling words. Life is a big fun game. We do cooking together, baking, cleaning, and even do shopping. He learns things from me and we build trust and love for each other. We learn about how to connect with each other from day one and not when he turns 14
If I have to go on a business trip my husband homeschools him and it is so easy and so flexibile. As you can see there are few points that I want to make
1. Time
2. Building Relationship
3. Fun
That is the beauty of homeschooling for work at home moms. It is doable. Everyone can do it if they really want it. Want and desire are the keys to successful homeschooling for moms who want to make money from home.
My son has the appreciation for what I do. I work at home. I am a bread provider for the family as well as my husband. He knows my time. He knows my schedule and I respect our time together when we do projects and do homework.
I think managing myself is the imporant factor why I can do homeschoolig, run a home business, be a mom and a wife. It is simple if you make it simple. I do not get my son involved in too many things as sports, music and arts! . I do not want to overwhelm him with all activities. Overloading kids with too much to do will never leave time for yourself and family.
Here are 10 tips for homeschooling moms who want to work from home but do not have enough confidence if they can do it:
1. Plan your week activities ahead of time
2. Every morning spend time eating or cooking breakfast together with your kids. It builds an amazing bond with your children.
3. Start your school program with simple reviews and spend about 45 minutes per each session. If you are homeschooling a preschool age children, two to three hours or school with activities is plenty.
4. Try to be done with school before lunch or shortly after. I do my best to finish all the school work before 1.30PM.
5. Afternoon is the time when I am getting back to my clients and customers. My son is involved in his quite activities as drawing, painting, or working with his lego sets.
6. When evening comes, make sure you spend at least an hour with your spouse and kids. Spring is around the corner, so make sure to get out outside for at least 45 minutes without phone interruption.
7. Evening hours could be from 7.30-8.30 PM. That is what I do every day when I have to get back to my prospects and training team members
8. If you have a growing team in your existing business, it is a great idea to host a team call once a week and provide training that way you do not feel you are babysitting every single member of your team.
9. If you work at home and have a busy schedule with your homeschooling, do not be afraid to let everyone know what you do and your time schedule.
10. Have fun! There is no point to homeschool and have a business if you do not enjoy it! Ask for help from others in your family or business associates from time to time.
To find what business I recommend when you homeschool your kids please visit Instant Income Plan.
Have fun homeschooling and making bug bucks!
You deserve it!
Tatyana Gann
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Permalink Reply by Lisa Jo Rudy on -
I've been freelancing for many years, and now, with my husband also self-employed, we're balancing two home-based businesses with homeschooling. I've gotta say that yes, it can be done, and no, it is NOT easy. Some of the challenges: while my son will work on his own, I feel it's important to get out there among people (including other homeschoolers), doing music lessons and ensemble, sports, art...and all of those activities mean leaving our house and being unavailable to clients. another huge challenge is that freelancing is not predictable, which means the phone may ring at any time - even while we're working together. Sure, I can put off work - but then again, I can't put off the mortgage.
Lisa Jo Rudy
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Permalink Reply by MariaD on -
Tatyana,
Excellent tips for a more structured approach to homeschooling.
Or, you can unschool >_>
My kid helps to administer a Ning site, not nearly as busy as twittermoms, but still there is a lot of correspondence involved with inviting people and so on. This, in my mind, counts above and beyond any 10yo-oriented "language arts" exercise book. Or she helps to prepare and run workshops and conference presentations. I can count on her to create a good outline of a document, illustrate it with some comics, and put it up online, into some shared workspace. Her Google calendar is as busy as mine. My daughter has not done a single workbook page in her life. She works out of an SAT book for when she wants to take some college classes - I help her with math, and she works through the language parts by herself.
I know I would not be able to work as I do if I played the role of a teacher. As it is, I am a mentor and a facilitator to my kid. Or maybe she's my apprentice. Lately, my role with her is a social networking coach, so to speak - I help her organize and run her own group activities, but she does not even need much help with that. We did full attachment parenting when she was younger, as I was getting my PhD, and back then the dynamics were a bit different, of course.
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Permalink Reply by Tahneesha on -
Hello All,
The last few months has brought about new changes for our family. A new business and a new desire to homeschool our children. I just recently started homeschooling. I found the comments very interesting and useful. I enjoyed hearing the different views about unschooling too. My goal is to define a routine but keep it fun. I also want to interact with other homeschooling families in our area.
Thank you Tatyana for this needed discussion.
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Permalink Reply by Peggy Alvarado on -
Can homeschooling moms own a successful home business and homeschool effectively?
Absolutely!!! I do it. This is our third year homeschooling. If I need more time to teach, I schedule my business around it. If I have a meeting with a client that 'has' to be during our school time, school has a break. Honestly, the amount of busy work the public school gives to the kids is ridiculous. We can get the same amount of work done and actually understand it in a fraction of the time. And in our house, there is no homework in homeschool. So I have plenty of time for my business without taking time away from my daughter.
Looking forward to reading the other replies! Take care.
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Permalink Reply by Felice Gerwitz on -
I'm new to this group and so glad (as I just recently joined twitter moms) that there was a homeschool group. I laughed when I read this post. It is a loaded question!
I help my husband with his two businesses and I have two of my own. I began my publishing business by accident. I began speaking for local homeschool groups and that grew into a book (Teaching Science and Having Fun) and then other books... now my concentration is publishing other authors and marketing, promoting, consulting. In summary, I read most of the posts here to date... organization is key (not my strong point) and getting the bulk of our schooling done by noon, which frees up my afternoons for work. It also allows my children to build things (they were attempting a dock on the pond... don't ask), practice basketball and baseball, create with legos, read books in a treehouse or the deck, and my favorite bring mom a cup of tea at the computer and a neck rub!
We are eclectic homeschoolers, read lots of book, hands on activities, some seat work (math)...since I've schooled since 1986 (I know, some of you were in middle school!), I have seen what works and what doesn't for us...what I've found is each child is different and one size definitely does not fit all. My husband advised long ago that I create check off lists for the children. We don't do every subject everyday, but when we do, there is a check by it... they have a sense of accomplishment and so do I!
As far as what works for me and my business (the second is an online video website where anyone with something to teach can post a video and sell it), I have learned not to try to do everything myself. At this point I'd consider myself more of a manager. I have a webmaster (two actually for different websites), business partners, a graphic designer, editor, printing company, etc.
I would definitely say that in our home my husband and children do come first. But, I am very happy when I'm creating, public speaking, teaching online classes, etc. When I'm happy, so is the family! Everyone is different, glean from others, but find what works for you.
Today is history day and I'm off to ancient Rome for the next few hours.
BTW I'd love to connect, either the group here, on Twitter and Facebook... go ahead and send me an invite.
Wishing you the best!
Felice
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Permalink Reply by Christina on -
I sure hope a mom can do both successfully. More importantly I hope I can as a single mom. But I can't do it alone. I am counting on the support of the homeschool community to spread the word and support me as much as possible.
I am starting a contest open to all homeschool kids as my way of supporting those who I hope will support me. Check out my site http://homeschooltees.wordpress.com/ for more information on the contest and how you can help.
I am looking for sponsors!
Also looking for advice and suggestions.
But most importantly I am looking for others to help spread the word - promoting is probably 99% of a successful Internet business and the most expensive part if you don't have a circle of supportive friends. This is why I came up with the idea that I did. A way for me to give back
Please at least check it out http://homeschooltees.wordpress.com/
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Permalink Reply by Rain Fordyce on -
Thank you Tatyana for your words of wisdom!
Yes, it can be done!
Together my husband and I have 4 businesses and we homeschool our children!
I wrote and published a picture storybook about life as homeschooling children
I am a life coach, speaker, author and creator of the peace treaty.
I am an editor of an inspirational online magazine for women.
My husband is a software developer for websites and more...
Needless to say, we are busy!
We have worked out schedules so we each get a full day to play and explore with our children (I love my Fridays!)
We work with our children and they help us when they are inspired to with our businesses (for example, my computer savvy child helps with emails and my younger child helps with shipping the books.) Both of our children are learning hands-on how to run their own businesses!
We have a daily, though flexible schedule that allows for creativity, exploration and learning.
The kids have learned to write on our large family calendar events they are interested in and trips to the library or playdates.
Most importantly, my husband and I have learned to stop what we are doing (with the exception of calls) to look our children in the eyes with love and listen attentively to their desires and ideas. This always brings a great amount of joy for all of us!
After all, we work at home so we can be with our children and support them as they grow!
I wish all of you WAH parents great success!
Smiles and joy,
Rain
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Permalink Reply by Michele PFM on
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Of course you can do both! The way to do so is to have reasonable expectations for your business, your homeschooling time, spouse time, house time, and self time! Also, you have to remember that an education doesn't have to happen in a "traditional" sense, i.e. at the table filling out worksheets for six+ hours a day. There are days when we really focus on several topics, or just one topic for a few days, or they work on individual projects while I pursue a work deadline. Balancing time doesn't have to mean an equal amount of time for all things each and every day. Focus on what needs to be done. Ultimately, if the business begins to become too much, you can change business objectives to meet your family needs. I also agree that children can become involved in the business and they can learn from that experience as well.
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Permalink Reply by Diane Gomes, Usborne Books on -
Tatyana,
You make some VERY good points toward working from home AND having a home based business. Besides many of the advantages you mention for both home schooling and working from home there is also the opportunity to involve your children in your business. There are a lot of things they can learn that they would never experience in a traditional school classroom. Helping sort orders, accompanying you with deliveries, and as they grow older helping with filing, sorting orders, and so on.
Who knows you may be raising a responsible, creative entrepreneur!
There are also home businesses that can HELP with home schooling. I am an Usborne Books & More (UBAM) consultant and sell books to families, schools and libraries. Many UBAM consultants are active in their business to not just add to the family income but to add quality books to their home school library! and earn trips that their entire family can participate in.
As a former school librarian I enjoy selling home school families books and helping them get direction to a curriculum that will work best for them.
I encourage families to consider combining working at home with schooling at home! Browse around for what works for you....
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Permalink Reply by Deb Maubach on -
I agree, Ruthie, that making home business a part of homeschooling is one of the best ways to teach real life skills. It's not easy, but finding a group to plug into can help. Obviously, I believed in it so much that once several of my kids graduated I started the business that I did. I think the hardest part was setting priorities and then sticking to them.
Ruthie Appleby said:
I don't think it is a question...i think that if you are home schooling you SHOULD own a home business and let your kids help and do it as part of their schooling so they learn how to run a business. My parents had a printing business in our home and iit has helped me tremendously through life.
Ruthie
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Permalink Reply by Tammy DePew Smith on -
I just launched my new blog today with this theme in mind. I've had a successful virtual assistant business since 1999, and 2 years ago when my son started Kindergarten, I knew I wanted to homeschool him, but family and friends were telling me that I couldn't homeschool and continue to run a successful home based business. Well, 2 years later, I'm still running my homebased business and still homeschooling him. I've learned alot over the past 2 years, so I wanted to share the tips and tricks I've learned on working from home and homeschooling. I hope you will subscribe to my blog - lots of good info on the way everyday, including a Free Report to download on earning money from home.
http://www.bestofbothworldsathome.com
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