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Confessions of a Single Mum

The ups, the downs and sideways views of life as a single parent

Balancing Work and Home

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When you're a single parent it is doubly hard to get a balance between work and home. The two kinda blend into one. I can remember for many years life just mushed into one long day with no definition from work and home. When I was at home I was stressing about work and when at work I was stressing about how such an awful mess I was making of the parenting thing. I felt like I was failing at both. So with that beautiful thing called hindsight, this is what I wish I had learned ... VIEW POST

Work From Home? Avoid These 3 Mistakes

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Being able to work from home all these years has ticked so many boxes for me. I didn't thave to send the children to childcare in the holiday which they hated. I don't feel so bad on day sI can't work from being ill ( I have M.E). Plus the feeling I get each morning when I get up knowing that I work from home still is a mixture of immense excitement and that feeling when ou stands at the edge of a cliff. But there are a few things I never really truly anticipated when I started and a few I am ... VIEW POST

So What Is A Flexible Career?

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It used to be that you would go to school to get your grades. Have a careers talk that lasted all of an hour, if you were lucky. Then you would decide the following week what you would like to do. The clever girls would go into nursing or teaching, less clever would have to be secretaries and the rest of us had the dizzy heights of shop assistant to aspire to. Yay ( a very underwhelming yay). You left school, hopefully, got a job and that was you set for life or until children came along.  It is ... VIEW POST

Work From Home Tips

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I must admit I love working from home. There is freedom, flexibility, it's rewarding and a fridge just an arms reach away. But it can also be lonely, hard work and challenging. When I first went self-employed about 7 or 8 years ago the children were younger and did understand that even though I was at home I had to work. They new desk time meant work time which meant quiet time. Admittedly now they are older they forget I am working and I have absent minded teenagers roaming in and chatting. But ... VIEW POST

Crucial Questions to Ask When Going Through a Divorce With Children

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2016 may have gone down in history as one of the worst years ever, but if you’ve entered 2017 with a divorce on the horizon, the chances are this year doesn’t seem any better right now. Perhaps your divorce is already underway and you’re dividing assets and laying out child care arrangements with the help of your London divorce lawyers. Or if you’re still in the processing stage, you might be still working through the legal 500 family law website, looking for the best divorce lawyers in ... VIEW POST

Spotting Work At Home Scams

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When you star thinking about working from home one of the first things you probably tried was a quick google. Currently, the phrase working from home is pulling 207,000,000 results. Pretty impressive. But among those results, there will be a scary amount that is just scams. They will be just out to make money from you and you probably won’t earn a penny. But how can tell what's legitimate and what is a scam? Keep in mind that there are no real ways to get rich quick, so if it sounds ... VIEW POST