Work at home moms: do you feel your family respects your time?

what you need to do is designate 'me' time for work. tell you children that you cannot be bothered during such and such hours and dont cave or feel guilty! i know this is easier said than done, but its something you have to do...be firm!

I think that all people, especially women, feel that way. If you do any work at home, you are just wasting your time and you should be doing the dishes (done.) or something else productive instead of on the computer. I was starting on novel writing when my boys were young and then it was on a typewriter, I never could get anything done because it was just not convenient, and when we finally got a computer, I could not get on it because it was for the boys's research, and when we got high speed internet, I could not write because we had only one computer, and my husband took priority. So it was not until we got two computers, and even now, housework or dishes are more important.

I have worked @ home for 13 yrs and I think the key is that people treat your business the way you treat it, if you treat it like a hobby, then so do they. I have always tried to have set office hours and my family always knew that typically I wasn't available during those time periods, of course you can "take a day off" but for the most part I tried to work my home based business everyday. Jill Gold Canyon Candles www.candle-diva.com Ask me how to start for just $49.00 !

jillbeth hi dont feel guilty you are not a built in babysitter for your kids, believe it or not. you deserve to follow your writing talent. have a certain time for this and' tell your kids that between certain hours you just are not available to babysit anyone. she will have to hire a sitter, that is only fair.also suggest that with your writing comes the chance to write a best seller and they will have been the ones to help you by observing your writing hours.