Work at Home Mom's Guide to Entertaining your Toddler

by Kristen Lemoine a.k.a Artsy Momma

When you work from home, keeping your toddlers entertained when business matters arise can
be a challenge. One of the reasons you chose to work from home was to be with your children,
but there are times that you need a few moments to concentrate on work. While we do have a
wide array of educational programming available to us today, TV isn’t always the answer to
keeping young ones occupied. This list of suggestions might help and if it doesn’t fit your
situation exactly, they will spark your creativity into tweaking it to suit your needs.
1. Set up a child-sized desk next to your own. By equipping it with some paper, crayons
and perhaps a toy telephone, this set-up will allow your daughter to work right by your
side.
2. Bring your laptop to one end of the dining room table while creating a Play-doh station at
the other end. Your son will enjoy creating works to rival Michelangelo while you are able
to catch up on email.
3. Set up your shipping area in the kitchen. Serving up a healthy mid-morning snack to your
child will allow your hands to be free to package up your orders and get them ready for
the post office.
4. Grab your legal pad and head on out to the back yard. You can enjoy the outdoors, feel
your children’s joy as they explore nature and jot down your list of things to do for after
they have gone to bed for the evening.
5. When they are very young, you can read anything to your child. It doesn’t matter if it is
the phone book, because it is the tone of your voice that is important. So, print out that
marketing eBook you have been waiting to review and read it out loud while they
snuggle on your lap.
Multi-tasking is a key component to work from home success. You want your business to
succeed and that takes a lot of work. You also want to be there with your children, enjoying their
laughter and spending quality time with them. You can combine work with parenting when you
take a moment to apply creative solutions to your day to day challenges.