Motherhood is a job, too - one that involves lots of networking.
Moms who meet at playgrounds, parties or preschools like to keep in touch and get their kids together for activities.
If you work outside the home, you can just whip out one of your business cards. If not, well, you can fumble in your purse for a pen and some scrap paper. Or, you could join the stay-at-home moms who have begun turning to “mommy cards.”
They’re business cards — complete with titles, such as “Evan’s mom.”
Where can moms get these?
ACE Custom Designs, which Avalon Park entrepreneur April Ernst runs from her home, has begun offering the cards. They’re also available through many other card-printing companies. VistaPrint, an online company that prints business cards and other paper products, launched mommy cards in 2005. Online companies such as cardsformoms.com, themommycard.com and mommy-cards.com have also sprouted up.
Where can you use them?
Playgrounds, parties and anywhere else you meet new moms and want to keep in touch with them. They can also provide contact information for baby sitters. “They’re kind of clever and they’re fashionable,” said Kristin McLaughlin, a mom of two young boys. McLaughlin used to work in public relations. Now a stay-at-home mom, the 30-year-old Orlando woman had missed the sense of identity that business cards give. “It allows people to know you are still somebody,” she said.
Image from mommy-cards.com.
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