The authors offer advice on an impressive range of topics, from when to see a financial planner to essential office equipment to online networking. But Parlapiano and Cobe have come up with a useful and instructive guide that can help you integrate responsible motherhood with a serious home business. The poll results that the authors provide help the mompreneur to see that, in an age of independent professionals, her situation and problems are not unique but widespread. The authors make the point that the mompreneur has to be more disciplined and organized than someone who works outside the home. She has to be ready to make use of an undisturbed hour whenever it comes.
Schedules have to be reworked to keep up with changing conditions.
In order to succeed, the IP has to switch back and forth from professional to mom several times a day. Such flexibility, however, is harder to achieve for women whose work is heavily weighted toward phone appointments and considerable interaction with clients. To be able to pull it off, you have to be careful that the Sesame Street theme song isn't playing in the background when you answer the line. And instead of saying that you have to take your son to the doctor on Tuesday, you say that prior commitments make Wednesday better for you. If you have scruples about little white lies, mompreneurship is probably not your thing.