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YYour Family | Your
Career | Your Business
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- Your
Family: As parents today,
we are all united in seeking a healthy, reliable home environment
for our children to grow in. How lucky we are to be living in
an age where this goal is finally being realized by so many.
In the U.S. alone, an estimated one-third (11.7 of 33 million)
of families with children 18 years or younger currently work
at home! These parents are finding out that they can merge traditional
family values with progressive career goals to enjoy a lifestyle
rich in both emotional and financial security.
The Internet/Information Age
has ushered in a whole new era of work-family unity — not seen since the Agricultural Age over a hundred
years ago. As a new generation of parents, we certainly have
our share of new workforce worries, but we also have outstanding
opportunities! By sharing information, experiences and resources
through such a global connection as we have here, we can work
together to realize the dream every parent, throughout history,
has strived for.
Here at Your
Family, we have articles contributed by parenting, child
care and work-family experts, as well as essays written by a
wide spectrum of everyday parents struggling with and conquering
their work-family goals. You'll learn alternatives to those long
days of paid child care, how to partner up with your spouse whether
or not s/he is directly involved with your home career, and what
it takes to keep those home fires burning at the same time you're
making money for all that firewood! |
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Career: Ever get tired
of people asking you what you "do" for a living? It's
like asking a ring master how he runs his circus. A working parent
and a ring master could struggle with similar thoughts to come
up with an answer. "With chaos and confusion, um, skill
and talent, uh, laughter and fear, well, I guess, balance,
whenever possible..."
It's easy for a parent to stumble
with career clarification. After all, the moment you become a
newborn parent you inherit a second job that will come in natural
and constant collision with whatever employment course you've
been on! Face it — you, your spouse, your house and your
career will all be in a tailspin for the next twentysomething
years.
So what are you supposed to do
in the meantime, put everything on hold? For most parents, this
is just not an option. Life goes on, and so do careers. However,
parenthood and your paid vocation are ever-interwoven now. You
need both to thrive, and both need your focus,
commitment and faith to survive as well. A feat, without doubt,
worthy of a ring master!
Here at Your
Career, you'll find what every ring master needs — experience, know-how and vision. You'll learn
from career counselors and workplace experts across the nation
how the age of career flexibility has arrived, why more and more
employers are open to the telecommuting option, and how working
at home can fit into your long-term career goals. |
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Business: It's a new
age — of global connection, high-tech income,
virtual offices and babies at the keyboard! As you lean
forward in your office chair, tuned in and attentive to the revolutionary
opportunities of the computer age, little hands are spinning
that chair around, giving you, The Entrepreneurial Parent, another
wondersite to behold!
Today home businesses are enabling
parents like you to forge ahead professionally while staying
behind domestically, where you can care for, teach and enjoy
your children on a daily basis. While you may not at first consider
yourself cut out for self-employment, you may very well find
that parenthood itself has in many ways prepared you for this
work option.
Here at Your
Business, you'll find a wide variety of advice, tools,
exercises and insights to help you start, manage and grow your
home business. You'll learn home business start-up and management
basics, brainstorming techniques and marketing/publicity campaigns
from savvy SOHO experts across the nation. |
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Your Community: En-parent.com is YOUR Internet community. We encourage
you to discuss
the successes, failures, fears and hopes of work, family and
entrepreneurship with fellow EPs,
or to ask questions
of your EP
Mentors if you're stuck
on a personal, career or business dilemma. Enjoy your visit and
come back soon to learn more, contribute to the discussion, or
see who
else has joined the Entrepreneurial Parenthood Community! |