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Mistakes To Avoid When Starting Your Home Based Business

I just read an article about starting a home – based business that rubbed me completely the wrong way. Of course, it may be more about me than it is about the author of the article, because it was mostly a good article. It is simply written from a different perspective than the one that I come from. I take my home – based businesses just as seriously as anybody else, even though I work part time because of my primary career as a stay at home mom. The article that I read seemed like it was written for home … Continue reading →

Free eBooks for Your Kindle – Week of February 8, 2012

One of the great things about the Kindle is that it makes it way more convenient for you to carry around the book that you are currently reading. Amazon.com tends to offer free ebooks for the Kindle, that are completely legal for you to download. This week, you might want to check out some free Romance novels on your Kindle. Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Irresistible Forces is a romance novel by Brenda Jackson. You can download it to your Kindle from Amazon.com for FREE right now. The story is about Taylor Steele, who goes on a “procreation vacation” … Continue reading →

Why Home Based Businesses are Great For Retirees and Parents

Starting a home – based business can be a great thing for almost anyone, but there are a few types of people who stand to gain even more by starting one. If you are retired or are retiring soon, or if you are a parent who stays home with the kids or wants to stay home with the kids, there are numerous advantages to having a home – based business or working at a home – based job. Today I would like to mention some of the ways that home – based work is especially well suited for retirees and … Continue reading →

Book Review – The Moms Town Guide To Getting It All

Today I learned about a book and web site that could serve as resources for some stay – at – home – moms who love what they do, yet crave something more than caring for their homes and their families. MomsTown is a web site run by two women who are dedicated to inspiring moms to create the lives that they want. Both of the women, Heather Reider and Mary Goulet, were successful professionals in the corporate world prior to starting their families. Each of them enjoyed staying at home with her children, and each of them experienced a sort … Continue reading →

Mom-Friendly Home Based Businesses

One type of person for whom home-based work is especially appealing is the stay-at-home parent. In honor of Mother’s Day, even though it was a few days ago, I would like to talk about some home-based businesses that are mom-friendly. Even though some home-based businesses are inherently mom-friendly, there are still things that need to be taken into account in order for the businesses to work. Mothers of young children, this one’s for you. Freelance writing is an excellent home-based business for a stay-at-home mother of young children if you go about it the right way. By going about it … Continue reading →

Don’t Pay Off Your House!

I had the most interesting conversation with a lawyer last night. He was telling me and my husband some ways to improve our credit scores and how to prepare for home ownership, and he said something that made both my eyebrows go up. He said that we shouldn’t be in too big of a hurry to pay off a house once we get it. Pretend there are two families, and they each buy a home for $200,000. Family A makes the regular monthly payment, and Family B puts every penny into paying it down faster. Some time goes by, and … Continue reading →

Sometimes Work And Kids Work Well Together

Whether you are working at home or working outside of the home and bringing your child to work with you, it can sometimes be challenging to balance working and parenting. Depending upon how old your child is, they can be doing any one of a number of things at any given time that makes it hard to get work done. Some children make a fuss whenever mom or dad is on the phone, because either they are not getting attention or, in my case, the little one wants to play with the phone. Sometimes, they could care less that there … Continue reading →

How to Increase Your Income at Home 2

Would you like to add some more income to the household? Yesterday, I shared some information about how to do just that. Now, today, I’d like to share some more legitimate work at home opportunities. Get a website. You can earn money if you have a great website that gets lots of traffic. Advertisers will pay you for sending them customers. Find a way to meet a need, instruct or entertain your visitors or create a community. Look into something called “affiliate marketing” to earn money. Basically, you put ads or links on your website that lead to store websites. … Continue reading →

Getting Teens to Dress Conservatively for School

I realize that this subject is interpretable and perhaps a bit controversial, but the way teens dress for school really does affect their education. Take for instance, the Cobb County GA Teen who liked to wear women’s clothes to school and the disruption that three days in skinny jeans caused. While most teens don’t go nearly this far to express their personal style, they do love to push boundaries, and they often push them too far. Just five years ago, low rise jeans for girls were pushed to the extreme. It was common for girls to wear these jeans to … Continue reading →

Disciplining Other People’s Kids

Back when I was growing up in a tight knit community in Queens, New York, we kids took it for granted that any adult we knew might feel free to discipline us for bad behavior. Today, parents aren’t quite so sure. We wonder if we have a right to discipline someone else’s child, even if that child is getting away with something that we would never in a million years allow our own children to do. We often ignore the bad behavior in someone else’s child, leaving our own kids bewildered. I think there may be two big reasons that … Continue reading →