As a busy mom it's very important that you manage the balance of your work-family time correctly.
However, I know from first hand experience that most work at home businesses are so very time-consuming.
What I am talking about here are offline home based businesses.
For example, I was just watching a television program the other day about a mom running her 'shoe' eBay business from home.
The TV camera's went into her home and what used to resemble as her dining room, was now a stock room piled high with hundreds of pairs of shoes.
She then went on to say that she had recently achieved her best month as she had sold just over 1,300 pairs of shoes on eBay.
Now she was really ecstatic about this and you might think that this is great too.
But you know what? I wasn't impressed at all - in fact, I felt quite sorry for her.
Why? Because her house was being taken over by shoes and imagine all the hard work and time it takes to individually package and then post 1,300 pairs of shoes on a monthly basis! Yes she is working from home and running a profitable home based business, but instead of being a slave to an outside employer, she is now being an eBay slave in her own home.
I relate to this as I used to sell plus-size women's clothes through eBay myself and I was in exactly the same situation as our shoe lady! Today on the other hand, I work Online for 15 hours a week and earn a nice monthly income for my efforts which is growing on a monthly basis.
I can choose which 15 or 20 hours I want to work around running the home, my children, shopping and going to the gym.