Staying home with the kids and making money as a virtual assistant
Stay-at-home moms are overwhelmed with ads for companies promising big money from home for minimal work. Though I vouch for none of these personally, here are two of the companies making work-at-home headlines right now.
Home with the Kids
One of the latest in a list of work-from-home job opportunities, Home with the Kids, is offering stay-at-home moms and dads the opportunity to make some money while enjoying family time. They have jobs in every line of work imaginable. If you have a marketable skill, you will surely find a paycheck here.
Virtual Assistant
There are also sites like Virtual Office Temps and Virtual Assistant Jobs that reveal the hows and whys of becoming a virtual assistant for public companies and private individuals. A virtual assistant is a person who does office work from home on a project-by-project basis. There are generally no contracts, and the pay scale is minimal. It is cheaper for the employer because they do not have to pay a full-time employee, and it works great for the employee because he or she can work as little or as much as they want to.
Other opportunities
For a list of potential work-at-home jobs, check out the blog on Achieve Your Career Goals or the Fox Business report on “real” work-from-home opportunities.
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Say Goodbye to the Pacifier
Being a parent is hard work, but it’s the most rewarding job there is. One of the first challenges is ending your baby’s undying lover for the pacifier. The problem is there is no clear direction coming from the experts regarding parenting with regards to baby pacifiers. Infants are expected to use pacifiers.
Much research indicates the baby pacifier is best removed sooner than later. If not, the child may not begin the babbling needed for the beginnings of speech. Just take the pacifier away because you are the Big Person. It worked for me…give it a shot.
Got An Angry Kid ?
We spend most of our time trying to control anger in children by giving them what they are giving us: Anger for anger. Does it work? If your intention is to teach a child that anger is bad, you will never teach him or her with anger. Getting the child to respect you and direct his anger elsewhere depends on how angry the child is. You may teach the occasionally angry child that he is best advised to direct angry any place but at you.
If you have a child who is angry all the time and as a result makes you angry all the time, then he is likely to spread his feelings all over the landscape: upwards, downwards and sideways. Now you’ve got problems because he doesn’t care who gets his anger. It is this child who needs a different parental anger strategy. No anger display from you. Period. So now we have two angry people. Great. For the most part, adult anger, when directed to an annoying child, is an adult tantrum, no matter how justified the adult thinks it is. Adult tantrums do not produce the change adults want: respect. Respect is vital in child control. Self-control is how you get it.
Listen to Your Baby
With 9 months to spend in close quarters, you and your baby will have a strong bond to last a lifetime. Ebaymaternity.co.uk has a large range of foetal heart monitors and listening devise so that you can hear your baby’s heart beat at any time of the day or night.
By listening to your baby you and your husband can enjoy spending time together, learning about your future son or daughter. Other products that ebaymaternity.co.uk sells to make your pregnancy even more memorable a special are foetal heart dopplers to monitor your baby’s heart beat. It is shown that Mozart played for a baby in the womb can actually make your baby smarter. According to studies, the rhythm and tempo in Mozart’s music causes the baby’s brain cells to react in the positive way – all the more reason to talk and play music for your baby.
