| Kids play hard, and sometimes that means they play | | | | really made me laugh, because I have pulled similar |
| really loud in the midst of exploring their worlds and role | | | | tactics just trying to get a moments peace! And, yes, I |
| playing with siblings and friends.I know with my kids, if | | | | have to admit, I have used them |
| I'm not hearing some degree of noise; [i.e. play], from | | | | to make my business workable too!Oh I know... I hear |
| them, it probably means one of them is not | | | | some of you saying... why don't you just get your kids |
| feeling well, or they are coming down with a cold.My | | | | into daycare, or find a babysitter or a Nanny |
| world is blessed with two very artistic and | | | | to take them. Well, that makes perfect sense of |
| rambounous boys; 5 years and 2 1/2 years old. With | | | | course. But for the many WAHMs who have given up |
| their play and with their | | | | jobs to work at home, |
| singing; [they love to sing Country music at the top of | | | | first, they do not want to be giving the majority of |
| their lungs!]; they have the ability to raise the noise level | | | | what they earn to those services; although they are |
| in our house to a "heaven-bending" volume in 9 | | | | very valuable services. And, second, there's that |
| seconds flat!And while I loved to hear them hard at | | | | guilt.The guilt we feel because it was our choice to |
| play, the sporatic and unpredictable noise [play], posed | | | | stop working at jobs and stay at home so we could |
| challenges at times when I was doing sales calls, or | | | | be with our kids. That was a conscious choice we |
| when clients called with final questions about starting a | | | | made. So when we start looking at having to farm our |
| business relationship with me.Clients don't wait, when | | | | kids out to daycare, babysitters, or bringing in a Nanny, |
| they want to have questions answered and they don't | | | | guilt; as to the purpose of why we were staying home |
| always call at the best times. Sometimes these calls | | | | in the first place starts to manifest.So what is the |
| would come through when the kids were eating or | | | | solution? Is there really a solution to how to make |
| doing activities that were not so noisy. Great! But.... | | | | sales with noisy kids in the house? Well, I don't know |
| most of the time, they did not!5 year olds are pretty | | | | if this solution is for you... But I do believe I found the |
| predictable. You basically know when they are going | | | | right solution for me!I don't have to hide in the closet |
| to make noise. But, if you know anything about | | | | anymore. I don't disappear into the bathroom to talk |
| the 'terrible 2's syndrome', you're already familiar with | | | | muffled into the towels, lol! I no longer work 5 to 9 |
| the unpredictability of when the next scream, or loud | | | | hours a day on the phone during play time, or any time, |
| laugh will erupt!Some clients understood. I would say: | | | | doing follow ups and sales calls.Clients no longer call |
| 'yes I know you can hear kids in the background. That | | | | the house at unpredictable times, or at all for that |
| is why I do this business. | | | | matter. My kids no longer have to worry about how |
| So I can be at home with them". For other clients, that | | | | much noise they make in the house! And, I'll still make a |
| was not okay. I had some near misses and some fair | | | | nice 5-6 figure contribution to my family's income this |
| size loses | | | | year!What did I discover to make my sales business |
| in bringing people in, to work with me in my business | | | | work for everyone in the household? Well.... that's |
| because of this home-based situation.Over the course | | | | another story that needs to be explained at another |
| of working out of my home, I have had many a | | | | time!My typing time is up - and my kids are calling me |
| conversation with other work at home Moms | | | | to come outside and play water-bomb balloons with |
| [WAHMs], and at times have doubled over in laughter | | | | them! Got to go ; )!Tracey DePaoli is a |
| at some of the ingenious, and sometimes silly tactics | | | | work-at-home-Mom [WAHM] who got tired of building |
| they've pulled just to get a moment of quiet when they | | | | success at the expense of her family's time. She has |
| needed to portray the illusion of "executive-office | | | | a successful business now that allows her the time |
| professionalism" for the really important calls.Some of | | | | freedom to travel, play and spend precious time with |
| them would hide in the bathroom. Others would sneak | | | | her two young boys - 2 1/2 and 5 yrs and her partner! |
| downstairs, or sneak out into the garage. The funniest | | | | She has been an avid Internet marketer and |
| one | | | | researcher of online trends for over 15 years. Discover |
| I heard was the hiding in the closet trick... so the kids | | | | more about how you can also earn a 6 figure income |
| would not be making noise right under-foot. That one | | | | while at PLAY! |