Articles tagged with: multiple income streams
Parenting »
Raisngkids has identified a new kind of family unit, the ‘relay parents’.
Relay parents take turns of working and looking after the kids, working in ‘shifts’. They report that research shows that parents are spending more time with their kids but less time together or as a family unit.
How it works for us…
Over the past six months what was a part time job for me sometimes exceeded twenty-five or thirty hours. My husband works shifts and I slotted my shifts around his, we took turns of looking after our daughter. …
Life, Mumpreneur »
Today I’m wondering if there is a sea of change in the world of work for mums.
A very rudimentary timeline;
Pre-1980′s (?) Mums stayed at home to look after children, whilst father earned the ‘daily bread’.
1980′s – Noughties Mums managed careers and family simultaneously. Supposedly ‘having it all’.
The Future
The landscape is changing, many mums are accepting that they wish to be a stay at home parent, if not in full, then in part. Mums also accept that they a) cannot survive on one wage and b) have ambitions of …
