A weekly radio show on Toginet.com, Fridays at 6pm EST or available to download on iTunes, This Little Parent… takes a fresh and straight forward approach to helping moms and dads to realize that there is a better and more economical way. No other program dares to be as brutally honest about what to expect, yet inspires us to take the boldest risks of our lives. This is a truly realistic, no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is method that will have you laughing and crying, surviving while struggling, and hammering away at the hardships as you travel through one of the greatest journeys of your life. Get empowered by joining thousands of other parents who have also decided to take a leap of faith into a double career with longer hours and half the pay simply because of the love they have for their children.

Laugh along with This Little Parent each week…

…as you go through this “no-brainer” tutorial that will show you how to give up your corporate salary, and get started supplementing your family revenue offering the skills you’ve always had. This Little Parent… covers important issues such as how to work as a family unit to make your dreams become a reality (how to get your spouse on your side), how to discover untapped resources in your very own community, how to start a business for under $200, and everyone’s favorite: how to manage your time between building your business, providing for your family, and taking much needed time for yourself to recharge each day. You’ll learn how to survive on a fixed budget, work around additional expenses simply by getting creative, and enjoy a more simplified life with your family.

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Founded in 2008, OurMilkMoney.com provides a valuable service for self-employed parents and consumers to easily connect through a simple on line search and is an affordable way for family run businesses to get adequate exposure for the products and services that they offer. The Our Milk Money Organization is dedicated to providing opportunities for parent entrepreneurs, and offers a community of support to parents looking to staying at home with their children while earning revenue for their family. For more information, visit http://www.ourmilkmoney.com.

About This Little Parent Stayed Home

Part of the new HerInsight Radio Group, offering inspirational voices from everyday life, This Little Parent Stayed Home takes a fresh and straight forward approach to helping moms and dads to realize that there is a better and more economical way by speaking to both parents in a way that encourages coming together as a family unit and using ones own resources to be able to adequately provide for the children in the best way possible for the family. The show airs each Friday, at 6pm-7pm EST and 3pm-4pm PST on Toginet.com, a Live Internet broadcast. The show is also available for download on itunes. For more information, visit http://www.thislittleparent.com

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The Wandsworth-based company lets parents book a workspace – a hot desk or meeting room – and a place in the on-site OFSTED registered crèche for their child, at times that suit their specific work requirements.  This flexibility will be ideal for independent professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers, remote, home-based workers or employees who are able to work from home at least one day a week.

“Remote working is on the rise. We are creating a space where parents can work without the overheads of having their own office, while having their child looked after in the same building. This cuts down on the stress of trying to commute from work to collect children on time and it means they can spend more time with their child during the day,” explains Shazia Mustafa, the mother of two behind the brainchild.

“Most importantly though, it gives parents the flexibility they need. Most childcare establishments require a child to be booked in on fixed days every week, usually for a set number of hours. Parents often find themselves on waiting lists just to get their child a spot and often don’t get the days or times they need.  For people with varying levels of work, this inflexibility costs them a fortune, particularly as they still have to pay for the care, even if their child is sick and can’t go. We’ve taken away all of these problems by allowing parents to book space on a pay-as-you go basis,” she says.

Shazia also thinks it will be a great way for home workers to meet like-minded parents, share ideas, network and have more social interaction than they’d have if they worked on their own in a home office. And for mothers who aren’t sure what to do once their maternity leave ends, Third-Door gives them the child-free time they need to put ideas into action.

To celebrate the opening, Third Door is running a competition in which a prize worth £4,000 can be won including free Third Door membership, 30 hours of free workspace/childcare, a Business in a Box package (including logo, business cards, letterheads and website), 3 hours of consultancy with business experts, a smart phone and laptop – everything needed to start up a business.  To enter or to find out more about Third Door, go to www.third-door.com

Yesterday we came out of testing and launched the hiremyparents Partner Programme that pays you to refer our great service and get paid. And this isn’t some 5% breadcrumb deal. We pay our referrers a massive 75% of all revenue created.

This percentage of sales combined with a no-brainer offer to customers means that one of our beta partners pocketed over $5000… in a week!

How? How?….How? – I’ll tell you.

Our PartnerResource Website (this is what’s taken the time) is chocked full of graphics, article, ebooks, emails, tutorials, reviews… everything you need to promote hiremyparents. If you don’t have the skills and knowledge to use these tools… no problem – we have put together a daily step-by-step to do course that will send you an email each day with ‘things to do today’ inside. Follow the steps and slowly build a revenue that will continue to grow and provide a residual income on auto-pilot.

This is no get-rich-quick scheme, we wouldn’t do that to our reputation! The bottom line is – if you don’t get your 75%, we don’t get out 25%! So we’ve made it as easy as possible to earn, and earn quick, through our programme with the kind of results that will ensure you continue to promote hmp into the future.

Take a look at the programme now. It’s available globally and there is absolutely no commitment necessary. If you feel it isn’t for you (ha) just walk away.

Any questions you have should be directed to Steve, your Partner Manager, at steve@hiremyparents.com, or, leave a comment below.

If you’re one of our members then you’ve probably noticed a few changes around the hmp site. It was good before but now it’s the best. And this isn’t an idle boast. We’ve listened to our members, we’ve combed the web and we believe we have brought together the very best resource on the web for anyone looking for a flexible life with a flexible income.

• Our job board now has over 600 flexible jobs on it, growing daily.
• Our new ‘Extra Income’ section shows the very best in instant income opportunities from around the web – vetted by our members
• The Library now has over $250,000 worth of courses, guides and software available for our members to download …and sell!

Combined with our expert panel, our member useable social network and customer service second to none we are ..the best!

Here ends the lesson.

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One of our experts, Antonia Chitty, has just launched a brand new business programme specifically geared towards parents. The press release is below, I urge you to take a look:

One of the downsides of running your own business is that you are the one who needs to solve all the problems and drive the business forward. Doing this singlehandedly can only get you so far. Fortunately, Mumpreneur Guide Antonia Chitty has devised a programme to help mums in business get support and solve their business problems, any time.

The Mumpreneur Guide Business Programme is an online programme that mums running a business can access at any time through the internet.  You can work on modules to help you with business finance, marketing, sales and much more. By working through the programme you can find out where the gaps are in your business planning.

What’s more, the programme means that single handed business owners get support in developing their business. Antonia says, “Each month you can flag up areas that you need input and I’ll help you work through your particular blockages. The programme offers incisive questions that can make you think about your business in a new way.”

Mums who have tried the programme say, “I like the way The Mumpreneur Guide Business Programme works. It’s hugely convenient.” Marian, starting a copywriting business

“Antonia is a very good coach! She is very insightful, has great ideas, can get to the point without loads of meandering and side tracking and obviously knows what she is talking about!” Lisa Cole of www.lactivist.co.uk

There are a limited number of free trials for the Mumpreneur Guide Business Programme available each month so you can check it out for yourself. Go to http://www.themumpreneurguide.co.uk/mentorme.php

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Think about what the term ‘balance’ means to you.  Are you picturing a pair of scales with equal amounts in each dish?  The definition of balance in Dictionary.com is ‘a state of equilibrium or equipoise’.  Is this what you’re trying to achieve in your life?

The fact of the matter is that life is never equally doled out in these measures.  Sometimes, work can take up all your time and then you have days upon days with the kids during school holidays.  No wonder people are always stressed and feeling guilty that they’re not putting enough time into various areas of their life – and let’s not even get started on exercise, visiting relatives and all the other little things that take up our time.

So, what’s the answer?  Well, firstly, I think it’s to address the very term.  Why not call it work/life compro-balance?  Simply by changing the term, it changes expectations and beliefs about what is possible to achieve.  The ‘compro’ in this case represents compromise ‘a settlement of differences by mutual concessions’ by Dictionary.com definitions.

The use of this new term reflects the achievement of ‘balance’ in life much more truthfully as in the pursuit of this state, there will always be concessions made.  There is simply not enough time in the day to achieve everything we want to and whereas use of the old term seemed to indicate this was possible, the new allows people to understand it isn’t always.

Think about the term work-life compro-balance, does the use of this term relieve the pressure of trying to be all things to all people?  Allow you the opportunity to forgive yourself if you don’t get everything done in the day?

The second step of the process is to use the term to re-evaluate what you’re trying to achieve.  List the areas of your life that need to be attended to, for example, sleep, children, husband, work, friends, business, housework, exercise, including things that you might like to do but have never been able to before.

Then, think of your life as a 100% whole, acknowledging that the time we have is finite and we can’t create any more out of thin air.  Divide this whole into those things you are required to do (they will need to be factored in first), followed by those you want to do.  It’s up to you how you do this but a weekly or monthly representation would be more effective as some things are only done once a week or month.

By looking at your results you will be able to see a representation of your time and how much you truly have for exercise or coffee with friends.  When you have this understanding, you can not only start trying to reallocate percentages by, for example, hiring a cleaner to allow time for exercise but you will also have an understanding of why you aren’t able to fit certain things in your life, thus reducing guilt and the feeling of pressure.

The resulting feeling of understanding and the knowledge that you are in control of all aspects of your life – that is true balance.

Alli Price runs Motivating Mum, a website and events business offering support and advice for mums in business, or those starting up.  www.motivatingmum.co.uk

 

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Current European rules give pregnant women 14 weeks leave fully paid. In the UK, pregnant women get a year off, with the first six weeks on 90% pay, followed by 33 weeks on Statutory Maternity Pay. The rest is unpaid.

There are concerns that employers could discriminate against women of a child-bearing age if the rules are passed. The UK’s Employment Relations Minister Lord Young expressed his doubts about the proposals.

“We already have a generous system which is better than many European Union countries and works well, balancing the needs of businesses and workers,” he said. “A substantial increase in maternity leave paid at full or near-full pay risks undermining this delicate balance at a time when economies across the EU can least afford it.”

Mary Honeyball, the UK’s representative on the European women’s committee, said: “This bill is urgently needed to level out the current imbalance in European women’s maternity entitlements. The UK currently has one of the lowest maternity entitlements in the EU, third only to Greece and Luxembourg.”

The maternity directive will be debated and then voted on in the next parliament session in Strasbourg on 5 and 6 May.

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These are ways for anyone with access to the internet to perform an action on behalf of a client and in return get paid for that action. These actions could be data entry, taking a call, creating links, performing social media tasks, the list goes on. They offer the ultimate in flexibility because if you don’t do the work you don’t get paid – if you do you do. They can be dropped and picked up as you wish.

Over the months we have posted these ‘performance’ jobs on our job board but only as and when clients have requested them. As these jobs are always available we have now decided to build an ‘Extra Income’ tab to our jobs section that will simply list the best of these kinds of opportunities that you can join as and when your life allows some revenue time.

We hope to get this up and running in the next couple of weeks and it will only be accessible to hmp members, so things won’t get clogged up on the clients side.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for the new section in the comments, what you’d like to see, details you’d like access to, and we’ll let you know when it’s up and running.

 

Having a baby is a leading cause of  poverty traps in the USA, the extra cost combined with time off can cause a down spiral that can put families over the poverty line. What Obama proposes is a fund that would help states launch family leave insurance programs by covering start up costs, and it’s a big deal for the economic security of America’s families.

Paid family leave helps stop family poverty before it starts by offering a bridge of economic security when parents must take time off after a new child arrives. With family leave insurance in place, new parents receive pay via the insurance fund when they take the essential time to adjust to a new child and recover from childbirth.

Paid family leave can also help lower wage gaps between women and men. The wage gaps mothers face are huge, and they significantly contribute to family poverty: Women without kids make about 90 cents to a man’s dollar, mothers make less at 73 cents to a man’s dollar, and single moms make only about 60 cents per a man’s dollar. That wage gap literally takes money that families deserve right off the table. Studies show that having family-friendly policies in place, like paid family leave, actually lowers the wage gaps between men and women.

Sounds pretty good huh?

I’m not a US citizen, have no plans to be (not sure they’d have me) but if I called crisps ‘chips’ I’d be contacting my congressperson via every form of communication the modern world can avail. Put the pressure on America, before the Right torpedoes it just because they can.

Link To Congressional Directory

NB – chips are fat fries

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