Comments on: Work Life Balance Conundrum

By: Fran

Fran — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:10:07 +0000

In reply to Christy Garrett @ Uplifting Families. I found it was much easier when my daughter was under one. She slept a lot as newborns do. As soon as they enter the toddler stage and need a lot of entertaining it gets very tricky.

By: Christy Garrett @ Uplifting Families

Christy Garrett @ Uplifting Families — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 23:01:44 +0000

My toddler wouldn’t let me get very much work done if he was at home while I was trying to get some work done.

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:40:04 +0000

In reply to Yasemin.

Thanks for your comment. I think people mistakenly believe that working from home is the ‘easy option’. I think it’s more difficult. I was only part-time from home with my first daughter and found that I wanted to do everything – take my daughter out all the time to do things, but also do my job well. It’s a challenge! It’s good that your work is quite flexible.

By: Yasemin

Yasemin — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:50:47 +0000

Hi. Lovely post. I work from home too and it is so difficult to keep the balance between being a mum and working when you are at home all the time. My work is full time but thankfully it is quite flexible and I can compensate the non working times in the evenings. It is getting easier as my son is growing (he is 2.5 yrs old now) as now he can entertain himself so I can do more work than I could when he was younger and needed my constant attention. I sometimes wish I didn’t have to work so I could be a full time mum but then I guess as you say there will come a time where you will need a challenge and miss talking to other people about topics not necessarily related to children.