Being a work-at-home parent can sometimes be a challenge. When you work at home you are dealing with your family and your business in one place. As soon as you start your business be sure that your family understands that when you are working you are not available for other things.For this reason it is best to have a separate room in the house for your business. Your family will need to understand the rules. The rules being, that if you are in the office you are at work and are unavailable for other household duties, just as if you were at your office out of the home. It may be hard to establish, however, your family needs to realize that when you are in your office working that room is off-limits to other members of the family.Having your own home business means having the discipline to set regular office hours. By letting your family know the hours that you will be working, they will understand that you are not available for household chores or tasks as you are working just as if you had a regular job. Friends and family members will need to understand that is not fair for them to expect you to drop everything whenever they need you.Another thing about having a home business, is that you may want to have a separate phone line for business calls. Your family members need to realize that they should not answer your business line. You can set up your business line with an answering machine so that it will take messages for you
in a professional manner.You can work your business around your family, and example with the taking the kids to and from school. If you have to take your kids to school at 730 in the morning, then when she dropped them off you will work until you need to pick them up. If this is not leave enough hours in the day to run your business, then your family needs to realize that once they come home you may need to work for a couple more hours. As long as you set up some sort of routine that your family understands between personal and business, it will make the transition easier for everyone.