how can we get stay at home moms to make good money from home?

Answer 1

One of the series of books I like to read takes place 50 years in the future. The government created a "Professional Mom" category for stay-at-home-moms. They get a stipend for staying home with their children. I've always thought this was a grand idea - if only we could get it implemented. But it will probably not happen in my lifetime.

Otherwise - create a home-based business like day care, or sign on with companies like Mary Kay, Avon, Tupperware, Discovery Toys, all those candle companies, etc. A firend of mine was a single stay-at-home-mom (she found the love of her life and got married recently and is still a stay-at-home-mom) and she supported herself and her 3 kids with day care and a hair and beauty salon that she operated out of her home.

Answer 2

Stay at home moms should not have to have at home, good paying jobs. I believe that a lot of the problems in the schools today is the lack of parents at home when the children leave and come home from school. I think we should look back at when mom stayed home with the kids and DAD was able to earn a decent living to raise the family. This would also pertain to women who want a career and men who want to be stay at home dads

Answer 3

It's important for anyone to get a good foundation of education and or skills in order to go through life in general. If a woman has a basis, an education, training, etc. and chooses to be a stay at home mom, she will have options available to earn additional income while she is in the home and the education to pursue said options. The choices are more limited due to lack of freedom of travel and certain resources, but there will be something to do. It's also important that mom realize this can be temporary if she chooses it to be; it may not be her ideal job for now, but it serves it's purpose for the time. Eventually, the kidlets grow up and mom is more free to change her line of work outside of the home.

Answer 4

Define "Good Money"...

My recommendation is to secure a position with an organization that is tolerant of either part-time or full-time remote work and continue working within your field of expertise. There are no "get rich at home" programs that you will benefit from. They're generally a scam of some sort.

I wanted to continue making a decent salary, so I went back to work rather than sacrifice all of my professional achievements.I'm the MIS director for a large hospital and didn't think that anyone in my family would benefit by my staying home. When a family crisis erupts or one of my children are sick, I can "remote" in and work from home. The children are well adjusted, happy kids that get to ski/snowboard whenever they want and we head down to the Caribbean twice a Winter- they're okay with the arrangement!

Answer 5

You could always try a part time job at night. I am a stay at home dad and work for ups at night. I have just recently started and am in the process of moving up to supervisor where the pay is 1400 bring home a month for 20 hrs of work per week. It also gets you out of the and allows you to make some friends.

Answer 6

Someone mentioned having a hair salon in the home and I thought what about tanning beds?

You can make bookoos of money off running a tanning bed in your home. You need to take a quickie certification course at a local community college so you'll be legal to operate one, then just get a used bed in decent condition, put an ad in the paper, and watch the money roll in. People are tanorexic these days and can't get enough of tanning beds. I had a friend growing up and her mom put a tanning bed in a spare room in their home and she did this. She made good money on it too.

Answer 7

Have the government give financial incentives to companies that encourage telecommuting as part of a conserve energy campaign. If this happened telecommuting could help play a role in saving gas and decreasing air/car pollution.

Educated parents would greatly benefit from having the telecommuting option. Families would benefit as well by being having the parents around more since they would no longer have commute time. I think the whole thing would be a win/win situation.

With a government financial incentive companies would take this "gamble" and thereafter see how it cuts company costs (office overhead) and increases employee satisfaction and potentially health costs.

Answer 8

Have you thought about Arbonne International? It's an excellent opportunity, but it's NOT a get-rich-quick scheme! It DOES take work. It's a European Health & Wellness company that's been around for 26 years, but is just now starting to take off. It's taking the country by storm! The products are phenomenal...herbally and botanically based, never tested on animals or contain animal products or by-products (vegan approved), no mineral oil, and MANY more unique characteristics. My team's marketing strategy does NOT include giving home parties (who has time?). It's worth your time to check it out. Check out the link and e-mail me if you’d like more information. Good luck with whatever you choose!

Answer 9

There are companies you can become a sales person for where you do all your work from home with the ocassional conference and then you go to people's homes who want to host parties and sell your stuff. Two companies I know of that do this is Party Lite candle company and Lia Sophia Jewlery company. You make about 30% of the amount of product that sells and unlike Mary Kay, where you have to buy bulk of your product up front and hope it sells, you have sample jewlery or candles for people to look at and then they order it through you. It makes the cost of being a sales person for those companies much less. Plus, I know as a sales person for Lia Sophia that the more you sell, the more gift certificates they'll give you for their stuff so you can buy more of their products to show at your shows at no cost to you. So I guess technically it is a job, but you do all your work from home with the exception of parties and once a month meetings.

Answer 10

Stay at home moms won't ever make money- but they might raise kids that will! The benefits are the pay off. It is sad most people can't make it on just one income, but it can be done. It just requires making lots of choices and sacrifices. The trick is not to feel deprived- but proud of the choices you made to make your lifestyle possible- which is tons harder.

I think stay at home moms can also put whatever skills they have to use- barter with other SAHMs for goods and services. Some examples- cutting hair, photography (family, senior photos etc), trading babysitting, painting (do murals on kids walls), home chef, piano / instrument / voice lessons, small party catering, floral design, wedding planning, custom sewing, tax preparation, financial consulting (budgeting), manicures, home preschool, cooking / sewing / knitting (etc.) classes, private tutoring, housecleaning, selling crafts at craft fairs, home fruit stand w/ excess produce (etc.), scrapbooking- for others!, personal organizer, web site designer, personal shopper, custom made quilts, neighborhood summer camp, etc.

I am a stay at home mom and freelance writer- it works out pretty well!