Last Monday, over 4000 schools in the UK were closed because of safety concerns after a heavy snowfall. That will have been a major headache for working parents across the country. As work-at-home-mums we’re lucky in that we can work more flexibly than most. But it’s easy for virtually all your work time to be [...]
Childcare
This post could could stop you from getting into trouble! Last week I got into a debate with a self-employed friend: she was convinced that as a sole trader she could consider childcare to be a business expense. After all, she needed the childcare to be able to work. On the other hand, I was [...]
My guess is that childcare is the number one worry for any working parent. Either it’s not up to scratch, it’s not flexible enough, you’d rather be at home caring for your own kids or it’s just too expensive. Being self employed does give more flexibility, but I’ve found this has still given me some [...]
The number one problem for business mums has to be childcare. If you're running a business around a family, most childcare isn't flexible enough to fit your working life. Working from home isn't as great as it might seem, either (unless your home office is like the one on the right…). You can miss connecting [...]
Answer – Get a childminder! But what if you can't afford one or don't want to use childcare? Is it really possible to run a business with babies or toddlers in the house? I thought I was pretty good at managing my time before I had my daughter. It's far harder now with tiny children [...]
Childcare for mums running home-based businesses is completely different from childcare for employed mums. Most mums running a business do so because they want to spend more time with their children, so need and want less childcare. For mums like me who have two children under two, then childcare is so expensive that it would [...]
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