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Category:
Careers / Job Hunting
Publisher: Shannon L. Buck
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 10
Copyright: September 21, 2016
ISBN-13: 9781365412462
Price: $4.99 (eBook)
This 2nd edition of Let Your Teen Help As You Build a Home Business: While Learning Valuable Skills for the Future, has been edited and updated, with more information on the important ways that your teenager can help out during this transitional period and beyond.
By coming together as a family, it's possible to successfully create a career you can have from home. With your teen as part of your team, you will go far.
Teens can be a big help with:
* Helping with some of your business tasks.
* Teaching you about technology.
* Helping you to plan different aspects of the business.
* Helping with their siblings sometimes.
* Helping out around the house.
By having your teen help out they'll learn valuable skills to take into adulthood, to use at home and in their career. This will put them ahead of other young people who were not given these opportunities.
Excerpt
Introduction
Building a business where you can work from home takes a lot of work and energy, whether you have a job outside the home or not. You will be spending much time on business tasks, rather than doing things you want, especially at the beginning when you are setting up.
Regardless, it’s important to set aside time to hang out as a family, as a couple, and with each child separately. And it's important to take time for yourself, to relax and refresh. Schedule these times on your calendar now if necessary. Shoot for at least one date night with hubby per month. A monthly date with each child separately is also a good idea, and at least one family day. Try to have have a meal with your family each day, without bringing work to the table. Your family needs to know they are still important, and should be your first priority.
Then sit back, with a notebook and pen, and consider how your teen(s) can help you through the transitional period and beyond. Get input from them and your spouse. Teens are not slaves, but need to learn skills to carry with them into adulthood. It will not hurt them at all to be responsible for some tasks.
The skills they learn now may help them to acquire a job later on, or at least develop skills that will help them to decide on a career and get started in it with important basic knowledge. The skills will also give them the knowledge necessary to start their own business, if they so desire.
A teen who takes care of younger siblings and babysits neighborhood children might grow up to be a teacher or a highly valued daycare provider. One who organizes files and closets may have a professional organizers business.
The skills they are learning can be listed on job and college applications, and resumes.
While it is a great idea to expose teens to many skill sets, things will go more smoothly if you mainly have them help in an area of interest for them; something that fits their personality or a specific interest.
If you have more than one teenager at home, having them each do the job(s) they prefer is another option so helping out won’t be hard on them.
A teen who likes to keep her things organized can put those skills to use in many ways. For instance, she or he may enjoy organizing a small area of the house each month. One month she or he may organize the pantry. The next, maybe a hall closet. At the same time they are organizing, they’ll rid the space of things that are no longer needed. Obviously, mom and dad will have to approve of anything being disposed of in any way, as the item may be needed or wanted by them.
The items the teens clear out might be handed over to them. Perhaps they’ll hold a yard sale and earn money to put toward school clothing purchases. It's reasonable to expect the family to keep things organized once they are done.
A good organizer may also enjoy helping you to organize your office space, or to get ready for a stock-up shopping trip.
Switch things up a bit. One week, have your teen help their younger siblings get ready for school and onto the bus. The second week have them do some picking up in the main rooms and vacuuming in the evening. And the third week they could spend a couple hours a day helping you in the office.
Your teen can be a great asset to you. He or she can also be a useful part of your business.
I would like to suggest you pay your teen if money is available, providing that a few agreements are met each week:
1. She is keeping up with her school work.
2. He is keeping up with his regular chores.
3. Your teen is being respectful to you and his/her younger siblings.
4. Your teen is not fighting with his/her younger siblings, and is paying attention to them.
5. He is not leaving you with messes to clean up.
6. She is handling herself in a professional manner, no matter what job she may be doing for you.
What you choose to pay your teen is up to you. It will depend on your income and his or her needs. Set some guidelines for some of their money use, but not all. For instance, for a teen who is paid at least minimum wage at a part time rate, I would expect them not to have to ask for gas money, lunch money, or personal care items. Decide what you think is important, and go from there.
Some parents may offer to pay for summer camp for their teen rather than hand over cash. Or maybe pay for the occasional dinner out with friends, a day at the beach, and/or a concert. There are many agreements that can be made with your child that will equate to monetary value. What is important to them? Don’t know? Ask. Always keep the line of communication open.
From here on out, I'll use the pronouns she and her, because I have daughters, but know that I'm referring to any teenager.
Shannon L. Buck
livethefreelancelife.com
Let Your Teen Help You to Build a Home Business
There are many things your teen could be doing to help your freelance business along, either directly or indirectly. Only you and your teen can determine what these tasks will be. This ebook is set up to give you ideas. Not as a set-in-stone way for your family to do things. Each business, and each family, is different. Do what works best for yours.
May I offer some advice? How about sitting down with your teen, letting her know what your needs are, and asking her what works for her. Treat her like an adult. Compromise. See what comes of it. She may not get exactly what she wants; you might not either. That is fine. It is a learning experience for everyone. She may have some wonderful ideas for your business, as well as for taking care of home needs.
With your partner working as well, your teenager(s) will be a huge asset to your family. It would not be fair to expect your teenager to do everything you can’t, but having them help out two or three hours a day, three to five days a week, is not a bad thing. Always take into consideration their homework time, after school or other extracurricular activities, whether or not they have a job outside the home, and their energy levels after they are done with all that stuff. Be flexible. Work around your teens schedule.
I’ve covered how having your teen help teaches them important skills for the future. It gives them a sense of responsibility, and let’s them know they are valuable within their homes and to their families. Many teenagers these days are not learning these skills, so your teens will have a leg up. These are exceptional skill sets that will set them apart from others in their age group.
On the following pages, I'll be giving you a plethora of ideas for ways your teen might be helpful to you. Enjoy the read. Think about your options. Decide what is necessary to the survival of your business and family, and make these decisions with them.
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