by Janea Washington

Created on: July 21, 2008   Last Updated: July 26, 2008

I am a stay at home mother of four children. Three boys and one girl, she is five years old. I stopped working 2 years ago to stay home and care for my kids. My days are busy with cooking, cleaning, and managing my home. My daughter is my little buddy and likes to help me as much as possible. She plays with her baby brother, helps me cook and even puts her laundry away.She loves to play with her fake kitchen and her baby dolls. She is going to be a great mommy one day.

. Last month, my husband and I sat down to discuss our financial situation. With the cost of gas and everyday living on the rise, we were starting to feel the ache of being a one income household. The time for me to return to work had come. I wanted to find a job that could allow me to work around my schedule. I searched high and low for at home businesses and found the perfect one for me. I am now in direct sales and am managing my own business. My desk at home has transformed from bills to work files and organized bins of my products and catalogs. My computer is now used for order placing and business correspondence. I have noticed a change in my energy level and motivation. I didn't realize just how much I missed being a member of the income earning working world.
My daughter has watched this transformation in me and I have watched her transformation as well. She has started playing "working mommy" , as she calls it. When I am not at my desk, she taps my computer keys, shuffles threw my old paperwork and pretends to talk to customers on the phone. She is even playing kitchen in an entirely different way. She isn't cooking for her family anymore, she is a boss ant her own restaurant. She is seeing the world in an entirely different way. She asked me the other day who my boss was. I explained to her that I was my own boss. That I was in charge of my business. She said" So thats why you get to still take care of us and we don't have to go to a babysitter".
By taking on this business venture for myself, I have unleashed a new idea to my daughter. You don't have to be confined to working for others your entire life. You can create your own career. She has always been strong willed but now I can show her how to become her own leader. I have set her onto a new path of independence. She knows that she can stay home and care for her kids and that is just fine. She also knows however, that if she wants to do more than that, she can. I am proud of the positive role that I am playing in her life and of the strong woman that she is going to become.

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