Mums have such busy lives caring for their family, it’s even busier when mums have to work too. Working mums are a credit to themselves, keep up the good work

An interesting article thanks for sharing, know the feeling quite well of balancing it all.

Interesting article. Always good to get all perspectives. Thank you.

I definitely know the feeling Good tips thank you for the info

I know a Mum who worked in a family business which meant her little girl had to go to childcare. They did some research and found one suitable, and by agreement made a few brief visits for the little girl to get used to her surroundings and meet some others. The first day, they arrived and only walked a few steps when the little girl said “I’m OK Mum, you can go now”. Needless to say she kept talking to her while walking inside and signing her in then beat a hasty retreat before Miss(only just) 2 year old changed her mind. As their relatives all lived interstate AB had only very rarely been left with another person – in an emergency.
She was quite happy there for the whole day. In fact after a few weeks one Saturday she asked it she was going that day. One very happy family – no tears at all. I know a 2 y.o boy who recently was having such a good time playing with the other children and staff suddenly decided he wanted to stay, not go home. He walked down to the corridor OK but when they stopped at reception while his Dad signed him out he suddenly threw a tantrum and started to run back to his play room. His Dad had picked me up on his way home from work as I was staying with the whole family for a few days. At the same time their Mum was going to the elder one’s school a long way in the other direction (about 1 hour between the two). He cried in the car for a few minutes then started singing along to the CD. He definitely knew some of the words. He had been doing some of the “actions” for about 6 months. He goes one day a week. Sometimes he is happy to go to Childcare, other times he wants to go to his Aunty’s. He loves the children he plays with though which is great as there are no relatives with children near his age range. The neighbour’s children are around the age of the elder one and there is a 5 year gap between them.

We’re all in the same boat really, whether we work outside of the home or not or run our own business – no we don’t have super powers we all just have good organisational skills and do what we have to do because that’s our job. Not sure why the author of this thinks an admin job is walk in walk out, I never ran my own business but I never used to walk in my front door of a night until 6.45 pm after travelling for 45 minutes on a train, if I left work before 6.00pm I thought myself lucky, however that was the choice I made to continue to work

Never feel bad about making “me” time. Every mum deserves it.

Great perspective, I enjoyed reading this.

Totally agree with the 2 minutes to sit and breathe

Wonderful article and having some time to ourselves balances life out. thanx.

An interesting article thanks for sharing

Of course we all need to make the time! Its just “making” it that seems hard.

Interesting read. You do need to make time for yourself also.

What a great article. We all need to be kind to ourselves.

Loved reading this.. I always don’t allow time for myself either as it’s so hard to think about yourself when you’ve always got kids to think of first