Father’s Day is in just a few days, and I would like to discuss some of the ways that dads contribute to home-based business success. Some dads are home-based professionals. Many men enjoy the freedom that comes with entrepreneurship or home-based work and they often achieve professional goals that far exceed what they had imagined. Some of these dads are also stay-at-home dads, balancing fatherhood and work while building close relationships with their children. It is also important to note that stay-at-home dads provide valuable support to their wives or girlfriends in their careers whether the women work outside of the home or at home.
There are also dads that work outside of the home who contribute immensely to the success of many work-at-home moms. I am proud to call one of these wonderful dads my husband. Without his love, dedication, and support my home based dreams would have remained unrealized. Because he works outside of the home full time, he is able to provide financial support for our family. He supports my desire to be a stay-at-home mom and shares my feeling that it is of the utmost importance that I am able to be at home with our son. He helps me get more work done than I can cram into my standard working hours of naptime and night time, too. On his days off, he spends time with our son while I am out at court or doing some extra writing. He has told me that he is proud of what I have accomplished with my work, and I feel his love and support every day.
There is also another type of dad that contributes to the success of many home-based professionals. This dad is the proud father of a home-based professional, the guy who takes pride in telling all of his friends about the great business that his son or daughter started, or the wonderful work that they do from home. He’s the dad that encouraged you to reach for the stars when you were little and helped you find your way as you got older. The one that was there to lend a helping hand if you needed it while encouraging you to become independent and self-sustaining. I have one of these dads, and I am forever grateful for his love and support. Because of him I grew up feeling like I could be anything that I wanted to be, and he has shown his support in many ways as I decided that my “anything” is being a stay-at-home, work-at-home mom.
Dads do not necessarily have to be a part of the same household as their children’s mother in order to support her desire to work at home if she chooses. In families where a father is separated or divorced from his children’s mother, he still may support their mother in her efforts to be a home-based professional. These dads have their kids with them according to a regular schedule, which leaves the children’s mother with some free time that she can dedicate to working at home. Divorced or separated dads can be immensely helpful in this regard, especially if they remain supportive of and have an amicable relationship with their former spouse or partner.
Happy Father’s Day to all of the great dads out there who work from home or support their wives or girlfriends in their home-based endeavors. You are appreciated perhaps even more than you know.