The number one reason children love their parents working from home is time with you. Even if you are in your home office typing away, your children are content just being in your presence. They feel a sense of security knowing that you are at home. You also have the ability to take a break for lunch or a breather and say hi to your child. Give them a hug or ruffle their hair. Taking just a minute to say I love you to them makes their little lives brighter. Makes every working moment worth it to both of you.
When you work from home your children have the relief of knowing exactly where you are. This can be ultra comforting to a child. If your child becomes ill or injured while at school, they know that they can call home and mom or dad can come pick them up. They know that even though mom or dad does have to work, their parent or parents can be at home to care for them. There are so many times that parents have to struggle to take off from work to care for their children. It causes stress for the employer, guilt for you as a parent and misunderstanding from a younger child. Working at home allows children to be more comfortable with your job employment.
Your children also love you working from home since there is a greater time for special school events and family time. By working at home you are often able to work your hours around so you are able to attend school events and functions. Such an example would be a birthday party or special parent lunch at school. These may seem like such small events to most adults but to children they are so much more. Being able to attend such events makes children feel as if everything that is important to them is important to you as well. This makes our children feel that much more special in there parents eyes.
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danakeith on June 15th, 2008 at 4:28 am
yeah.. hopefully soon if i get married, i’ll have opportunity to work from home so i can take care of my kids myself, coz presence really counts a lot specially in their “growing up” stage.