Got Pre-Schoolers? Need to get work done during the day? On a Budget?

WAHM - Work at Home Mom, Mompreneur, Mom Entrepreneur on a Budget but need time during the day to work on your business ?

I am a mom who is at home full-time. I have 3 children, one of which is a very active 16 month old toddler/runner. For months, another work at home mom and I have been talking about trading babysitting. Well, we finally started it 2 weeks ago.

I take my Jonathan to her house on Tuesdays from 10am - 4pm and she brings her Emma to my house on Thursdays from 10am - 4pm. It has been FANTASTIC ! I am all on with toddlerland and chaos and fun for one day. Then I am all off and able to get amazing things accomplished in the 6 hours I am toddler-free.

Guess what? It's an even trade because we are moms on a budget. We feel like total SuperMoms flying around the house getting a million things done from doing laundry, doing dishes, washing floors, making and returning client phone calls without baby's chasing us down to talk in the phone.

Is there a mompreneur, mom entrepreneur, mom in business in your neighborhood that you could set up a toddler swapping trade with ??? Think of six hours of having a wonderful lunch and kicking out a dozen things off your massive To Do List...

Send Your Kids Outside for 1 "Green Hour" a Day !

Send kids outside to get close to nature and appreciate the world around them. Remember when we were kids. We ran in from school, grabbed a snack, and then ran back outside to play until our moms called us for dinnertime.

The National Wildlife Federation recommends that parents give their kids a "Green Hour" every day, a time for unstructured play and interaction with the natural world. This can take place in a garden, a backyard, the park down the street, or any place that provides safe and accessible green spaces where children can learn and play.

Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods, refers to this nature-child disconnect as "nature deficit disorder." One of the primary symptoms is the replacement of the green space by the screen space as the occupier of children's free time. Indeed, a Kaiser Family Foundation study found that the average American child spends 44 hours per week (more than 6 hours a day!) staring at some kind of electronic screen.

Studies have linked excessive television viewing to obesity, violence, and even lower intelligence in kids. Now, a growing wave of research indicates that children who spend time outdoors are healthier, overall, than their indoor counterparts.

Children who regularly spend unstructured time outside:
- Play more creatively
- Have lower stress levels
- Have more active imaginations
- Become fitter and leaner
- Develop stronger immune systems
- Experience fewer symptoms of ADD and ADHD
- Have greater respect for themselves, for others, and for the environment

Turn off that television, computer, video games and kick the kids outside until dinner to run around, get some fresh air, soak up some vitamin d, and have some good old-fashioned outdoor
fun !

SOURCE: http://www.greenhour.org/, http://www.moregreenmorelife.blogspot.com/

The Entrepreneurs - A New T.V. Show hosted by Donny Deutsch

Wednesday Nights at 9pm - Watch "The Entrepreneurs" with Donny Deutsch

I just recorded this show on my PVR. I have yet to watch it, but I was a big fan of the Donny's show "The Big Idea". I know that there are people out there that don't like Donny's big personality, but the fact remains that he had a great show about entrepreneurs like no other out there. I can hardly wait to watch his new show sometime this week.

Donny Deutsch is the host of The Entrepreneurs, a primetime special profiling the success stories of America's entrepreneurs. He was also the host of The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch. Donny has interviewed everyone from budding entrepreneurs to Billionaires, discovering their secrets to success and showing YOU how to turn your idea into a BIG IDEA." Next for me is to buy his book that just came out December 2008, The Big Idea: How to Make Your Entrepreneurial Dreams Come True, from the Aha Moment to Your First Million

"It's the moment when you say, "There's gotta be a better way." It's the moment when you ask, "How can I solve this problem?"Donny Deutsch's hit CNBC show The Big Idea has put the spotlight on that ordinary moment and the people who have the courage and stamina to make their dreams come true.Some people think a big idea is like a lightning bolt striking out of the blue that slams you in the head. But it's hardly ever like that. The Big Idea isn't an act of God. It's an act of daily life. Simply put, the idea that will make millions starts with an observation.

In The Big Idea, Deutsch draws not only on his own tremendous focus and expertise, but on that of dozens of the successful entrepreneurs whom he has interviewed, to help you create your own enterprise. From the "Gut Check Moment" to "Mom Power," The Big Idea takes aspiring entrepreneurs along every step of the way. The Big Idea is your road map to the American dream."

SOURCE: http://www.cnbc.com/, http://www.donnydeutsch.com/, http://www.deutschinc.com/