About

This site is about being a work at home parent written from the perspective of a 40 something father of 4 young children.

Life at home is fantastic but it’s hard work, both physically and mentally.

Four years ago I took a break from my career to look after the children and manage the home, and whilst it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, it’s also been extremely testing.

Being a stay-at-home parent is tough enough but making the transition to work-at-home parent adds a dimension of pain of like you wouldn’t believe.

Some of the high points have been truly amazing, but the low points have led me to feel despair.

I’m writing things I hope will help other people who are going through tough times–things that make sense to me about running a happy home, having a fulfilling life and finding success in the areas of life that matter most.

I hope that in producing this content I can help you to find the time, space and energy you need to achieve some meaningful work – or at least set you in the right direction.

I’m motivated to create this site because I know that so many of you will be in pain and struggling to cope with the demands of a work at home life. What starts out as being the best decision you ever made, filled with promise and potential, so often ends up making life worse that you ever believed it could be.

And I know from experience that much of the advice out there designed to help you find success and happiness is unrealistic or out of reach to those people at rock bottom.

That’s why I’m developing a survival guide.

You have to learn how to survive before you can thrive.

Life is changeable and it requires you to be self reliant, resilient and adaptable.

If you’ve tried and failed to make changes in your life and feel that you’re now merely existing, I’d encourage you to become a survivor.

Taking control of yourself, your environment and your circumstances is extremely empowering and possesses a certain vitality that makes you feel truly alive.

This is a work in progress and may take me some time to develop but as part of the process I want to post things that offer you hope and encouragement.

If I could sum up everything I’ve learnt in the last four years, it would go something like this:

Be awesome every day