Workingmums.co.uk- guest post

I'm obviously not a working mum, and a lot of mum's at the moment aren't either, thanks to the cost of childcare. Even though wifey went back to work after the birth of Fifi, the contribution after childcare costs she made to the household income wasn't enormous, and certainly wasn't proportionally worth all the stress and aggravation. Talking to a lot of the mum's at work, they sort of forlornly assume that plodding on is the way to assure that they still have a job to come back to full time when their children are old enough to go to school and they suddenly don't need a childminder any more. Our childminder is absolutely lovely and is really like a second mum to Fifi, they've been hanging out together since Fifi was about 9 months old. We're lucky in that until recently we've been able to afford this but thanks to the economy wifey has been made redundant.

Fortunately on top of the blogging she has also picked up various pieces of freelance contract work, some ongoing and some project based. This kind of stuff pays in cash, not goods in exchange for reviews or work, which is nice but it is hard to come by.

That's where in the round about sort of way I'm famous for, www.workingmums.co.uk can prove very useful. If you are a stay at home mum, they do have a lot of information about homeworking, and also a job board that currently has about 70 homeworking jobs listed on it. They also have an invaluable advice and support section that covers all sorts of legal aspects of working as a mum, ranging from being made redundant on maternity leave (exactly what's happened to us, to finding the right sort of flexible working arrangement that will allow you to pick the kids up from school without constantly getting the evil eye from your boss.

If you read my blog you'll know that I don't do an inordinate amount of sponsored posts but I had by happen-stance come across Working Mums when I was looking for employment related advice for wifey. So in that sense, it's well recommended.