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How To Make Money Fast

If you are a stay at home parent there are all sorts of things you can do to make money.  I don’t propose to tell you how to make money fast, but rather how to make money quickly.  The difference here is making money fast would assume you get paid upon completion of a task.  There are ways to do that, like selling things on eBay, but very few of them can be completed quickly. Read more of this Parenting Magazine Article

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Getting Sick

When you are the stay at home work at home parent how do you deal with it?  While there are two of us at the moment with any luck that will change soon and Katy will be back to work.  I say that not just as the part of me that wants peace and quiet back in my day, but the part that is worried how the hell were are going to pay our bills.  For those that don’t know I got a recent trip to the hospital and things were not peachy.  I have been trying to take it easy, and watch my stress levels which is much easier said than done.  The next time a medical type person says I should be careful how much stress I am under, they should have to default half their weekly check to me for a month and allow me to smack the shit out of them.  That would assure some stress relief.  How does anyone else deal with this?

5 Things Every Stay At Home Dad Needs To Know

In the course of nearly ten years of being a stay at home dad by default I have learned a few things. Call it a parenting course based on my on the job training.

5) You are Dad. That means a lot, don’t shirk your responsibilities. You will have to turn off your xbox or step away from the computer to watch Sesame Street and smile when you would rather strangling that fucking Elmo. Putting on the right face is part of the job.

4) You are Dad. Don’t try and be Mom. It will never work. It doesn’t matter if your child has no mother or even another Dad, if you try and be Mom you will fail horribly. Be Dad and be a good Dad, it is all anyone could ever ask or expect.

3) You are a stay at home dad, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to work. Don’t put up with any crap from people who think you don’t work. If you are doing your job right, you will work your ass off every day. If you happen to have a secondary job to being the stay at home parent, remember that it is always secondary to the job of being the stay at home Dad.

2) Show your respect for the person going off to the job that lets you be a stay at home Dad. Don’t, however let them get away with shoving off all their responsibilities of being a parent and living in the house off on you though. You are a stay at home Dad, not their personal servant. Even if you are into that sort of role playing, remember it is when the kids have gone to bed and you are allowed a temporary reprieve.

1) Realize until your kids are in school all day long five days a week your free time is limited, so make the best use of it you can. i recommend napping every time they do.