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The Best Summer Jobs by Age

Kids can learn important lessons outside of the classroom, and summer is a great time to reinforce learning in the areas of finance and managing money. In between trips to the pool or the movies, family vacations and sports camps, consider building in the opportunity for summer jobs. Here is a guideline that will help you with suggestions for the best summer jobs by age group. Junior High and Middle School Age Outside work around the home. Children this age love to be outside, so combine this love with a job doing exterior home work. There are a number of … Continue reading →

Take Time Out for Yourself This Summer

One of the things that can be easy to do when you work from home is to put in more time than perhaps you really should. You can get very easily get caught up in the whole workaholic syndrome. For some people with home businesses, they find summertime to be the perfect opportunity to take time off. But for other people (myself included) it actually becomes a perfect opportunity to do more. Since my children are now teens and have their own plans going on almost everyday, it actually leaves me more time to do more things throughout the day. … Continue reading →

Preparing for Children’s Summer Vacation

When you run a home business and you have children in school, one of the things that you have to prepare for is their summer vacation. And since my children’s summer vacation is less than a month away, I know that I need to get cracking. So what does this mean exactly? Well I think first of all, what it means is sitting down with your kids and having a discussion about some rules and boundaries. Your children need to understand that while a benefit in working from home is your availability to your children, it doesn’t mean that should … Continue reading →

Summer Home Businesses for Teens

Well the days are winding down and pretty soon children will be on summer vacation. If you have teenagers like I do, you know that the job market hasn’t been very good so it may be a challenge to find a job for the summer. My 17-year-old has been looking for a job since December. He has landed one interview but didn’t get the job. Times are difficult out there so teens may need to get a bit creative. So here are some ideas for summer home businesses for teens. Remember that with any home business, it will also require … Continue reading →

Encouraging Kids to Make Their Own Cash

In most homes, “encouraging” is easily interchanged with “threatening.” After all, how many parents relish seeing their fully capable teens sleeping in until noon and then lounging on the couch watching TV or texting when they could be gainfully employed at a decent summer job? Aside from the freedom to purchase expensive jeans, apps, music, and other teen-related must-haves, there are a slew of additional benefits that your child can gain from a summer job, including: learning responsibility, managing time well, honing math and reading skills, communicating, prioritizing, budgeting money and working on interpersonal relationships. However, before your child can … Continue reading →

Cash for Kids

How much would you pay your kid to sweep up spilled Cheerios from the kitchen floor? With summer just around the corner, many kids are looking for ways to make money to fund summer fun. In most cases, younger children look to their parents for spare change or cash in exchange for hard labor. Okay, maybe that’s just my house. Older children may look for outside work to pad their wallets; though securing a summer job is not always easy. It pays to start the search for summer employment early. Many businesses start posting seasonal positions as early as March. … Continue reading →

Schedule, Schedule, Schedule

Schedule, schedule, schedule…it is the word that has been running through my mind for a good week now. That’s because I am beginning to learn even more the importance of this word when you are running a home business. Of course, I have always believed in having a schedule. I believe in scheduling your days to start and end at a certain time (if possible), and to even schedule in your breaks. But one of the things that I have come to realize recently is that scheduling needs to go beyond this. I need to schedule time for other things, … Continue reading →

Thinking Positive Thoughts about Housekeeping

I am very excited to now be contributing to the housekeeping topic. I currently blog in the topics of parents (teens), fitness, home business and marriage. It almost seems natural to add in housekeeping. Why? Because while I am a parent of teens, I enjoy working out, I work from home and am married…I still have a house to run and maintain. It is one of the most important things that I do as a wife and mom. I truly do consider myself to be the “Queen” of my home. For me, housekeeping is very important. I feel much more … Continue reading →

Free Vacations

Just because you don’t have the budget for it doesn’t mean that you can’t have one! Here are some ways to snag some great free vacations. Explore the city I just got a list of all of the fun and free things that we could do nearby in Philadelphia! There are historic sites, museums, music concerts, walking tours and more that are absolutely free. I also found out that one famous theater opens its doors free to the public for the final dress rehearsal before the show. The rehearsal is just like the normal show, complete with costumes, lights, props … Continue reading →