feature Yes, You Can! 7 Ways To Become A Cheerful Work-At-Home Parent 10 • September 2016 / www.volusiaparent.com Exercise At Home. Studies have shown that sitting at your desk all day without breaks leads to disastrous results for your health. So make daily exercise a part of your daily routine. If you have kids at home even part of the day, establish family exercise time. Try putting on your workout clothes when you get up in the morning to remind yourself you are serious. If accountability is an issue, join an online exercise support group where you can check in after a workout. If you set yourself up for exercise success, you will be more likely to complete your workouts. Schedule Sunday Prep-time. Set aside Sunday morning to spend quality time with your family, but reserve an hour or two during the afternoon or evening to get a jump on your workweek. If you can empty your inbox, do a bit of planning, and make a to-do list, you will get off to a great start. If this works well for you, consider adding in a family meeting afterwards, to go over schedules, consolidate errands, delegate tasks, and send any necessary family-related emails for the upcoming week. Activate Your Cool, Calm & Collected Powers. When you are a work-at-home parent, you don't usually get to sleep in. So go ahead and set your alarm an hour earlier than you would normally get up so you can have a few moments all to yourself each weekday morning. What do you consider a joyful morning meditation? For some it will be drinking coffee and journaling. For others, it may be fixing a smoothie and reading inspirational passages. Some parents love a morning jog and hot shower. Whatever gets your day off to the best start is time wisely invested. by Christina Katz Working at home alongside kids or with kids in school comes with its own unique challenges. Often people don't take the fact that you are working seriously. They may even wonder if what you do is legitimate. So don't be surprised if friends ask you to watch their kids since you already enjoy the luxury of spending so much time at home. But what really matters are not the things you cannot control, like what others think and do. What really matters is what you can control, like what you think and do. Better yet, if you can manage what you think and do all day, you can discipline yourself to work happily and productively so you can maximize the benefits of being a work-at-home parent. So forget what everyone else thinks, says or does. You are a busy, focused work-at-home parent, and you have two important jobs: earning money to support your family and taking excellent care of them, too. And you can do both cheerfully-here's how. 1 2 3
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