What Your Home Business is Teaching Your Kids...Proud Mommy Moment Here!!!

My Daughter, Brittani:)

When I started by home business in 2006, my biggest reason WHY I wanted to reach success from home was to provide a life for my kids that they deserved.  I was about to become a single mom and didn't want to have the typical single parent home with the struggling financially and mom working two plus jobs just to make ends meet.  I wanted so much more for them.  I wanted to be a mom that was front and center in their lives, attending every field trip, class party, helping with their activities and sports, the whole nine yards.  I wanted them to live in a nice home in a nice neighborhood with top notch schools.  I knew that if I worked my home business hard and made sacrifices the first year that I could absolutely make that happen for them....and I have.  And I am blessed beyond belief.  What I didn't know were the other effects my home business would have on my kids.....what they would pick up from me along my journey.

My daughter, who just turned 10 years old this week, recently started doing Girl Scouts.  And it's that time of year when it's time to start selling Girl Scout cookies!! Wooohoo!!  The second she got that order form in her hand, I could see her wheels start turning.  Her eyes got big and it was like I could see and feel her dreaming big.  She instantly shouted "Mommy, I am going to sell 1000 boxes!!!"  I told her that was such an ambitious goal but that the top seller last year only sold 350 and that maybe we should go by that as an example.  She thought for a moment and said "Ok, let's sell 400 mommy!!"  I said "Are you sure baby, that's going to be hard work?"  And she said with her chest out and her head held high "I can do anything mommy if I just believe I can" and she continued on with a mini speech that if I would have gotten on video, she could have been the next YouTube inspirational video sensation.  I felt tears start to well up in my eyes and I just hugged her tight.  I'm shaking a little as I write this.  I am one PROUD momma with an amazing little girl!!  And earlier this afternoon, I heard her chatting with a friend about a mini obstacle and she said "Where there's a will, there's a way, we can make it happen."  I've noticed these little instances in my children over the past few years, I could go on and on with things her and my son have said and done that make me realize that I am teaching them so much by just being home with them and building my home business.

Having a home business is so much more than just making an income.  As mompreneurs, we go through so much personal development and really refine ourselves as successful, positive people inside and out and that rubs off on our kids.  They see us everyday working at home to build something for ourselves!  We are teaching them to set goals, to aim high, to think outside the box and to dream big!  We are teaching them that with a positive attitude and hard work, they can do anything!  We are setting amazing examples for them and that is something to really be proud of!  

So if you are a mompreneur, give yourself a pat on the back.  You are doing a FANTASTIC job mom!!