making things work at home

With the modern woman getting more and more pressure from society to have a legitimate career outside of the home, more moms struggle to find time to spend with their kids. Moms who understand the importance of mom-to-child time have found a way to make it work by taking their kids to work with them.

Many are baffled at the idea, and wonder how any woman could possibly juggle multiple children while getting work done. The key is having a kid-proof space for the kids to hang out in, and tons of activities for the kids to do while mommy is busy working.

And there are plenty of sites that understand this need, and have created free resources for moms to get printable activities for their toddlers and older children to do. For religious moms, there are websites that offer printable bible quizzes for kids. You can have your child do this with a bible handy, kind of a home made CCD course without the inconvenient CCD evening classes.

A great way for younger children to develop reading and math skills before preschool, and printable shapes for toddlers. Fisher Price has a whole slew of them available on their websites. The key is to take a break now and then to discuss the shapes with your toddler, and point our what color they are using, and how to spell out the word of the shape. It's been proven by numerous studies that children who get their shapes and colors down pat have a much easier time with developing their reading and math skills in the future.

Another great way for a toddler to learn his letters and numbers, are printable color by numbers and color by letters worksheets. These are great motivational tools for your child to learn his or her alphabet and counting orders because they offer a rewarding end result. They give toddlers a means to draw more advanced pictures for their levels just by following the letters or numbers.

For babies, quiet book patterns work great. Moms can either buy these at specialty toy stores, or make their own. You just take thicker fabric and sew it together to create pages in a book. On each page, you sew on cloth flowers, cloth butterflies, cloth dogs, different textured fabrics, ecc. The key is to use things that won't be choking hazards. These will usually last babies 20-30 minutes of exploring while moms get tasks done. Moms can make multiples of them, and send a bit of time with their baby or do a task that allows them to hold their baby for a bit in between uses of quiet book patterns.

With these tools, moms have been able to save money on day care by providing themselves as a teaching mentor and loving adult presence in their children's daily lives. Also, they develop discipline skills for their kids by teaching them to practice patience and obedience while mommy is busy getting some work done. The key is for moms to take breaks every once in a while to monitor their child's activities. It's also nice for children to get a break from the learning activities, and get to veg out in front of some educational cartoons while they take a break from studying.