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Working Mothers

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Being a full-time mother and businesswoman is a challenge. We'll give you some advice on how to balance work and home, as well as some inspiration for when things get tough.
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I am hoping any of you mother's out there who send there children to childcare centers can help me. I have a class project which necessitates me asking five mothers about their childcare center search. What were you looking for in a childcare center? What attracted you to the one you currently use? What are your safety concerns and does your present childcare center meet this criteria? I need to know your first name only, name of childcare center, and the age of your child. Thank you, kindly, to anyone out there willing to answer these questions. Sincerely, Julie ...
By: Julie on 3/20/06 at 12:00 PM
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I am hoping any of you mother's out there who send there children to childcare centers can help me. I have a class project which necessitates me asking five mothers about their childcare center search. What were you looking for in a childcare center? What attracted you to the one you currently use? What are your safety concerns and does your present childcare center meet this criteria? I need to know your first name only, name of childcare center, and the age of your child. Thank you, kindly, to anyone out there willing to answer these questions. Sincerely, Julie ...
By: Julie on 3/20/06 at 12:00 PM
Day Care Centers
What's there to say when she has started off so well? This is not only someone who understands what it takes, but understands the importance of her customers, or does she? A good business operator will also plan up front and outline customer policies that no only develop the customer, but provides strategies to retain them and develop strong customer loyalty, no doubt a minor over sight. She has a customer involved product and service. I would hope that she is putting the customer first here and not in chasing the dollar.
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By: Dawn Koroniotis on 2/27/06 at 12:00 AM
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Hi: Your article about mothers doing home business is fascinating. Being a mother with young children to take care of is already a full time job. For such a mother to start a home business is like having two full time jobs and it is not easy. Most people have very wrong ideas of doing home business and that is why failure rate is high. Doing a home based business can be more of a hard task and chore than having a regular business or having a job. Doing a home based business requires more discipline and competence than a regular job because you may have to do many different chores all by yourself since at the beginning you probably will be working alone and may not be able to hire helpers. This means that you may have to play many roles and do so many things all at the same time. You may be forced to become a website designer, a copy editor, a sales person, a customer service, a spokes person, an attorney, a book keeper, an accountant, and a publisher all at the same time. This is one of the biggest reasons why most people fail in home based business opportunity because they are unable to play all these roles at the same time. Another reason why most people fail in home based business is that they don?t spend enough money to promote it. To attain success in any home based business may require that you spend thousands of dollars. But most people spend $25 a month to place an ad and if they don?t make any sale they conclude that the home based business opportunity doesn?t work and give up. To succeed in any home based business may require that you do different types of marketing. You may have to do both online and offline marketing. You may have to do many press releases in order to get free publicity and generate free traffic to buy your home based business opportunity. Above all, depending on the type of product or service that you?re promoting, it may take time for you to start seeing a return on your investment and to become profitable. Unfortunately, most people who get into home based business lack patience because they are looking for quick ways to make money. For that reason, they don?t do enough marketing and internet promotion and don?t network and don?t spend enough money to generate traffic and so consequently they fail. Any mother who aspires to do a home business should become aware of these facts and realities. Ikey Benney http://www.maychic.com/maysearch ...
By: Home based business on 2/13/06 at 12:00 AM
Home-Based Businesses
Hi: Your write up about companies being family friendly is great. After all, if there is no family, perhaps there will be no company, right? The family is the foundation of the society and it is the family who produce the workforce which companies need to do business and thrive. Therefore it makes more sense for companies to be more family friendly. One way they can do that is to provide on-site childcare services. This is will help more numbers of mothers, especially single mothers to be able to get jobs and stay in the jobs and be productive. Ikey Benney http://www.maychic.com/maysearch ...
By: Family resources on 2/13/06 at 12:00 AM
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I hope you don't mind a comment from a Working Dad.-) My kids are now well into their school years. In addition to the usual milestones of kids first walking, then talking. You can add the milestone you pass the first time you walk out of the house without a diaper bag. Then there's the bigger one of sending them off to school and your day care costs drop down to after care. Now, I've changed my work schedule so that I can be home when they get off of the bus. To do that I get up at 4:45 AM and get to the office at 6AM. Thank you flextime. Thank you not having a monthly bill for after care.
By: Glenn on 2/12/06 at 12:00 PM
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Dear Kathy, It was lovely reading your article and I must thank you for showing me the mirror..things like feeling guilty for taking a break are so true. But what are the solutions to such scenarios..at times i just leave everything and chill out with my son ,which i find the best way to unwind.. but then the kids are smart enough to understand the varied behaviour of there mom. Now a day I can see that apprehension on the face of my son about the unpredictable behaviour of his mom.!! regards LtCdr Seema Verma India ...
By: seema on 2/12/06 at 12:00 AM
Recharging Your Batteries
Kathy wonderful story! Yes, it will help enormously to remember 'crossing that finish line' and you can draw inspiration from it. Reminds me of when I finally got my college degree - at age 46 (after stalling for 20+ years)! I'll never forget the moment I walked out of the final capstone exam room, knowing full well that I passed it and had 'capped' the accomplishment and reached a life goal. From that point on, there would be no more "I can't do ____" and I draw on that for inspiration. Congrads on your accomplishment.
By: Frank Ross on 2/8/06 at 12:00 PM
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I?m an American of 36 years, married since 10 years ago. I?m in the 7th month of pregnancy. This is our first baby. A year ago, Charles and I decided to take a short vacation, after 4 years of hard treatments and stress, trying to get pregnant. We arrived in Costa Rica, and right away, we went to the Fiesta Premier Hotel, in Guanacaste, in the Northwestern Coast of the tiny country. A fellow worker on mine was there last season, and she recommended the place to us. It has an impressing spa, and it is great all what they offer: aromatherapy, therapeutic massages, and all with natural ingredients. We really enjoyed the place and the service, a true sanctuary of relaxation. Something very amusing happened. The day we arrived, they were celebrating a wedding there. The place was beautifully decorated. The ceremony took place outdoors. It was really different: the smells of the sea and the flowers, the sounds of the waves and of the near jungle were important elements. It?s funny that we are in the video that the hotel was taking for them, because they thought that we were invited! We remembered our own wedding, so we decided this trip was for our second honeymoon. It was a really magic moment! The place, the company... It sounds strange, but soon after that, the doctor we used to visit let us know that I was pregnant! Chance? Maybe, but we are sure that something different we found there helped us too much to make our dream come true. There are many things we?d like to tell about that magic place. We?re not sure what it is, but it?s something that we?d like to share with you.
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By: Petra on 1/19/06 at 12:00 PM
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