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Slide 1: Work from Home Mom – Pros and Cons Like all other profession, stay at home mom experiences many challenges and rewards over the course of everyday living. Staying at home with children is a blessing but it can be challenging. Here are the pros and cons of being a work from home mom. Let’s start with the positive.  Flexibility It will be easy for you arrange your schedule and can easily accommodate daytime activities such as you can errand during business hours, attend important events and make time for your children. You can also easily join conference or workshop related to your career.  Family-time You can easily there for your children during the morning rush as you don’t have to be rushed. You can help your child in his study and even attend different functions.  Working Hours Working from home will allow you to do your works on your own hours- when you have the most energy and ability to concentrate- either in the morning or midnight.  Less Travel Regular travelling to the office is time consuming and stressful. Skipping the regular drive to office will help your budget and you can add additional time to your working hour or reserved it for your family.  Casual Clothing You don’t require business attire while working from home. You can be work comfortably in your casual attire- pajamas or sweats. You can also save on your business attire and you don’t have to spend time on tailoring and dry-cleaning of your dress.  Lower Childcare & Business Costs By staying at home you can not only give your children a lot of time you can also reduce your childcare cost as you don’t need help from a babysitter. For your business, you don’t have to rent office space and cost a great deal to start-up. In addition to all of these, you will get a terrific tax deduction. Now consider the negative. Page 1
Slide 2:  Less Professionalism You can face the problem of concentrating to your business work. While at home, there may be a million of household works to complete. So you can face problem of giving priority to your business work.  Overlooking Household Works You can also face the vice versa. You may overlook your house hold duties to spend more time with your business duties. While you will work as a stay at home mom, you should need help from your family. Seek help from your husband, kids or if needed from an outside service.  Less Quality Time Spending time with children is the basic cause of working as a work from home mom. But you may also have to face challenge. Undoubtedly, you may have a great deal of quantity time with the kids but it may be difficult to turn the time into quality time. Save a night every week to go out with children for games, movies or outer activities.  Isolation You may be isolated from adult while working from home. Limited interactions with family and friends may cause isolation and remoteness. They may not realize how much work you may have to do. There are the challenges and rewards you will face by working from your home. Before selecting your career pay out few hours and thoughts on these. Get more idea at www.stay-a-stay-at-home-mom.com Page 2