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How do you Juggle Being a Working From Home Mum?
Many people struggle to juggle work and personal life, especially for mums who want to contribute their best at work and raise their children. The good news is that you can do both, and in this article, we explore how you can juggle being a working-from-home mum.
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How Can I Be a Successful Work-from-home Mum?
Working from home with your little ones only a few feet away can be challenging. To tackle this obstacle, you need to plan and prepare accordingly.
First, acknowledge the difficulties you will encounter as a working-from-home-mum
Meeting deadlines when your child cries in the next room to play with you, attending conference calls during feeding times or brainstorming with colleagues while your 3-year-old refuses the clothes you’ve prepared the night before for her to wear in the daycare are a few examples of things that may stress you out when you are a working-from-home-mum.
Sleep loss, when your toddler is teething, can affect your ability to do your job efficiently. The emotional and physical exhaustion, because you try to do everything flawlessly, can make you feel that nothing is enough, and making dinner after a tense day at work can seem one of the most tiring tasks on the planet. Yet all these issues are fixable as soon as you understand that being a working-from-home-mum requires a lot of ongoing readjustment.
Allow yourself time to adjust to this new reality and forgive yourself for not having all the answers. You are always trying and will figure them out one step at a time.
Second, get all the help you can
To be successful in this essential endeavour, you need all hands on deck: rally up your family, friends, and colleagues and use an early learning centre to ensure the proper development of your child.
Ensure someone takes care of your child while you’re focusing on your work. This way, the little ones will receive the attention they need, and you’ll get more done at work more effectively.
Seek out people who can listen and support you. Join a parenting group or a play group. Even if your little one is too young to play with the other children now, you’ll appreciate exchanging ideas with other working mums.
Check if your employer has an affinity group for parents; if not, consider starting one yourself. Seek professional help to tackle your emotional hurdles and navigate the bumps of your professional and personal life.
Taking your child to an early learning centre such as Bright Beginnings for a few hours will enable you to focus on working stress-free and without interruptions.
An early learning centre provides your children with essential benefits:
- It enables them to become good communicators, socialise with other children and gain self-regulation;
- It teaches them to negotiate, share and wait to take turns;
- It develops their creativity;
- It teaches them to think, reason and listen to others;
- It helps them gain the skills they need for kindergarten and school;
- It supports their reading and language competencies;
- It enables them to recognise their feelings and the feelings of those around them;
- It helps them elaborate and communicate their ideas;
- It teaches them to interact with those outside their close circle.
- It teaches them to interact with those outside their close circle.
Third, get organised and focused as a working-from-home-mum
Ensure that when you are working, you are not getting distracted by the thought that your child is nearby. To maintain your focus, find a place in your home separated from the room where your child plays and dive into your work for maximum efficiency. Agree with the ones caring for your little one that they will not interrupt you unless needed.
Gain more effectiveness by grouping tasks based on their complexity and common characteristics. For instance, you can group the tasks that entail a higher degree of coordination, like answering emails and setting up meetings and have another batch of tasks that require more concentration, such as planning and writing a pitch or developing new ideas.
Another significant element is to agree on the expectations your colleagues have for you. Communicate clearly and regularly on ongoing projects, accept reasonable deadlines, but don’t accommodate requirements you know you can’t honour. If you are asked to do too much in a short time, propose tradeoffs. For example, if you do one task faster than usual, you receive more time for another.
Another tip for maintaining focus is addressing tasks based on energy levels. You can manage challenging tasks when you feel more energised (in the morning, for example) and attend the ones that require interaction with others later in the day.
It’s essential to be as focused as possible so you can give your full attention to your child after your working schedule is over.
How Can I Work From Home as a Mum?
You can be a working-from-home mum in two ways: work for an employer or yourself.
If you worked for an employer before becoming a mum but find it difficult to resume work because of fixed terms like tight deadlines, you can opt to work independently. You can start your blog, make crafts and sell them on specialised platforms or start the business you always wanted.
How Can I Work From Home as a Mum?
Aside from creating a business plan, getting the funds you need for the initial investment into your company, and finding suppliers and customers, there is a crucial element you need to consider when starting your business from home: have faith in your ability to make it work.
Working independently is not a walk in the park. You no longer have an employer who pays your salary monthly, and the prospect of not having money to fulfil essential needs while having one or more children can be daunting. But there are also advantages:
- You can work on your timeline (maybe during the night when your children are asleep).
- There are no bosses to assign you impossible deliverables.
- You have the flexibility to organise your work as best suited.
It can be challenging to do it, especially if people around you say you should forget about it and get a “real” job. You need all your strength to pass these discouragements and believe in yourself. If you have been able to work for somebody else, you can work for yourself! Even if your company will not have a skyrocketing profit in a few months, be persistent! The patience, skills, and passion you put into it will eventually make your business very profitable.
Is it Cheaper To Be a Stay-at-home Mum?
The short answer: it depends. It depends on your lifestyle, the income you had before becoming a stay-at-home mum and the expenses you can eliminate once you make this step.
There are areas where you can cut down costs, such as:
- Eating Out
Many times, after a long day at the office, the last thing you want to do when you get home is prepare dinner. Hence, you may often order takeout or dinner at a nearby restaurant. You are more likely to eat at home when you are a stay-at-home mum. That helps you save money. The same goes for the money you used to spend on lunch when you had a job: you can replace those sometimes expensive choices with healthier, cheaper homemade meals.
- Commuting to and from work
Depending on how far from home your job is, you can save significant amounts of money when you no longer have to commute to and from work with public transportation or a personal car. The same goes for the high spending on taxis or Uber when you are late for work because, for example, your little ones didn’t get up in time for kindergarten or school.
- Buying and preparing clothes for work
Being a stay-at-home home means you will no longer need to buy office clothes for every season or every time a new trend starts in the office. And you won’t need to wash, iron or dry clean your office clothes every week. That translates into lower energy and water bills and a reduction in the money you pay for new clothes, detergent or dry cleaning. This doesn’t mean you will wear sweatpants every day (unless you choose to), but your budget will welcome the cost cuts.
Becoming a working-from-home mum is not an easy decision. It can affect raising your child, your career future and your emotional well-being. But if you do it in a planned manner, its benefits will be worth your effort. Being close to your child to care for him, satisfy his basic needs (such as feeding or soothing his crying) or guide him when he navigates the complex world of interactions with peers in kindergarten or school is one of the most rewarding parenting experiences.
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Our Early Learning Centres
Our early childhood centre environments strongly reflects our inspiration – The Reggio Emilia philosophy, from Reggio Emilia, Italy.
We provide a creative and open ended environment that encourages infinite learning for the children and strong relationships between teachers, children and families.
The day’s routines are flexible. At the same time, care is taken to recognise and respect each child’s needs.
Why Choose a Bright Beginnings Early Learning Centre?
- Encouraging the use of natural materials
- A strong transition into school
- Teaching team inspired by the Reggio Emilia approach supports your child’s creative potential.
- Healthy, tasty hot meals cooked fresh on site
- 20 ECE hours available/free sessions for 3 year olds
- A boutique, homely feel to our centres
- Strong connections between teachers and whanau.
Here's what our parents say about our childcare centres
We are so happy that our son is a part of the Bright Beginnings family. The staff have been so welcoming and caring since the day he joined here. He has the freedom to explore and experiment as he learns about the world around him. With each passing day, he is growing into a confident and independent young boy, while building friendships and learning important life skills. We are also especially happy that he gets nutritious meals everyday, an important concern for us as parents. Most importantly, he loves it so much here that he can't wait to be back at the Centre every morning! As parents, we can go about our day with the assurance that our son is in good hands within a safe environment. Thank you to the entire BBELC team for that, Devika.
Bright Beginnings has and is a second home to both my son and now my daughter. Amber loves coming to the centre everyday and to see the relationship she has with the teachers is very special. We love everything Bright Beginnings embodies and are thankful to have found this centre.
- Best price
- Best service. From Jade Tavita
I was absolutely blown away by the presentation and the effort that went into the parent teacher interviews. I have not seen anything like it before and it made me feel very comfortable and welcome as a parent. From Darren Masters
Super duper loving, caring teachers. Awesome environment where our boy can flourish everyday. Thank you, Brad and Joanna.
Dillon absolutely loves his new big boy class. He even asks us if he can go on a Saturday and Sunday. Thanks all for making going to school so easy for us. Thanks, Anika.
I love and enjoy watching April develop and grow, I am so happy and grateful that she is in an amazing environment filled with people who care and look out for each other.
Beautiful Daycare. Thank you all.- Best price from Zara.
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Cherry: Our family is very grateful that we found BBELC. So far it is the best daycare we have seen. We are glad to enrol our kids here. Having peace of mind that our kids are safe, well fed, looked after and enjoy activities with the teachers and other kids is PRICELESS!!!
THANK YOU for helping my kids explore new things. You are all amazing. Like what I always say to the teacher, I don't know how you all do it but the teachers here at BBELC are SUPERHEROES! As parents we feel your passion, dedication and love.
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