Because there’s so much truth in the adage that the most precious thing you can give your kids is your time, this article may help you to do just that. Sure your present job allows you to buy them gifts such as toys, internet games or electronic doodads, but is that truly worth it? Investments will bring in money, but isn’t the investment in your child worth a hundred times more?

Let us not forget the importance of things like family dinners, meeting your kids when they get off the bus, overseeing their homework and even caring for your kids when they are sick – all without having to miss a day at work – if you work from home.

There are many internet careers that can allow you more time with your family. Some of them are part-time and others are full-time careers. However, it surely would be nice to not have to pay for childcare, nor commuting expenses, wouldn’t it?

For instance, there’s data entry, typing from home and paid online surveys. Granted you will not become rich beyond your dreams by taking surveys, but you can earn good money for just completing those surveys online.

Each of these suggestions will give you the time you seek. If you can write, you may offer your services as a freelance writer. There’s also document coding, legal or medical transcription, translators, telemarketers, proofreaders and online tutors. If you are very computer literate, you might find an online job as an IT specialist, or setting up web pages.

Other jobs that may be not only lucrative but will allow you time for going with the family to school functions, and perhaps even home schooling your kids are making outgoing calls for sales promotions, interviewing the public, and conducting surveys. Or you may become an editor performing miracles with others’ writing.

Running your own business from your home is often lucrative. Please note that this is what makes E-Bay so popular. There are also job opportunities in multi-level marketing or you could become an outsourced home-based call-center worker.

Fun jobs can come from hobbies as you turn your hobby into a business. If your office work used to entail accounting, you can do accounting work from home. Customer service reps are mostly working from home now.

So what will you do with the time you have for your kids between working at these jobs from home? Suggestions are: telling them stories, go out on picnics to the park, take them to an amusement park, set up a family night for playing games, take your kids to a professional game such as hockey, baseball, football, tennis or golf, or take road trips together. There’s swimming, camping or cooking together, not to mention taking afternoon naps on the same bed together, just you, the kids and their pets.

The possibilities are endless as are the warm, loving rewards you will receive. Childhood should not be wasted but enjoyed and they grow up so fast, don’t they?

posted by Chris Simpson