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Using Your Motherly Skills To Drive Your Development

It’s easy to find yourself wondering what you’ll spend life doing once the kids leave home. Living as a full-time mom is a challenging role, taking huge amounts of energy, and often pushing people to their very limits, but it is something which you have grown to love. When the house is empty, this will leave a lot of time free which can be dedicated to the parts of life which you enjoy the most. To give you a helping hand with this, this post will be exploring some of the work which you can put into building your personal development around the skills you gathered as a mother.

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Being a parent grants you a unique set of skills, and these can only be learned through experience. The ability to communicate with a child, for example, is essential in roles which involve counseling or childhood support, giving a lot of mom’s a good direction to start their search. Working on an online masters school counseling will give you the chance to use this talent to support young people. Not everyone will like to invest the time which something like this might take, though, and this can mean looking down alternative routes.

There are plenty of roles out there which don’t involve going to school, simply relying on what you’ve learned as a mom, rather than in the classroom. Working as a classroom assistant, for example, can be a great way to use the tools you’ve developed over the years to help a teacher out. Jobs like this are incredibly satisfying, making the quietness at home a blessing rather than a reminder that your little ones aren’t so small, anymore.

Peyton with a dairy calf in MinnesotaGetting into a professional role can be a challenge once you’ve spent a long time out of work. Having been a full-time mom, you won’t have any recent experience, and this could make it hard to find an employer who will take you seriously. To overcome this, starting your own business can be a great idea. This can range from toy making to babysitting, as long the company you choose is something which uses the best of your parenting skills.

A lot of people don’t want to get into something too full-on when they’ve just finished a stint as a parent. It’s been a tiring couple of decades, and now you have a chance to relax, focusing on work which you enjoy rather than working yourself to the bone. Writing a blog can be a great way to achieve this, opening the doors to a simple profession which can wind up as a big earner. This sort of option is even more flexible than running a traditional business.

There are loads of options for mom’s who don’t want to waste the skills they’ve built over their time as a parent. Personal development is a big part of feeling satisfied with life, making this a great field to look into when you’re just about to find yourself left with a lot of free time.

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About Shanna

Shanna started writing shortly after her daughter was born. She's written for various outlets over the years. When she's not writing about her adventures with her daughter, she's out having adventures!

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About Peyton’s Momma

Shanna is a single mom living in the suburbs of the Twin Cities raising her daughter.

Shanna blogs about family, food, travel, middle-school-age children topics, and more. She shares tips and tricks she has discovered to help make her life run smoother.

She is also an avid cook and enjoys sharing recipes and entertaining. Shanna plans educational events and field trips for her daughter and shares her experiences so other families can plan their own adventures.

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