7 Business Lessons From a Write at Home Parent

I can’t remember what it’s like to run a writing business without having to think about parenting. That’s probably because I launched the business AFTER I became a mom. But even before that I learned some lessons that still affect my business today.

Lesson #1: Becoming a parent blows a hole through whatever passed for a routine in your previous life.

When my daughter was born just over 11 years ago I was working as a journalism lecturer at a UK university. I took a year’s maternity leave (that’...