Staying Home With the Kids: How to Stay Sane, Stay 'You' and Enjoy Your Time at Home With Your Little People - Softcover

Considering giving up your paid job to become a stay-at-home mum? Made the decision to stay home with your kids, but wondering if you made the right choice? Yes? Then Staying Home With The Kids is for you! Nicola Semple draws on her experience of staying home with her kids, as well as interviews with other mums, to provide a frank account of what it’s really like to be a stay-at-home mum in an age when women had a ‘life’ BC (Before Children). Disputing the job role ‘status’ hang-ups of society, she provides a voice for the thousands of women who work tirelessly day-in-day-out with no financial reward and little recognition outside the four walls of their home. Nicola shares practical advice on how to make the day-to-day reality of staying home with the kids a more rewarding and positive choice.

Nicola Semple, is a mum of two who passionately wants women to feel empowered and able to create the family life that works for them. BC (Before Children), she was a management consultant working with large corporate and private sector clients. Now she uses her business skills to help mums build a successful and profitable business from home. Nicola is a displaced Glaswegian, living in Surrey, England. (You can take the girl out of Glasgow, but you’ll never take Glasgow out of the girl.) She lives with her Surinamese Dutch husband and two little people. When not on the school run or spending endless hours in swing parks and soft play, she can be found working one-to-one mentoring clients and running online training programmes to help mums find focus, skills and direction to rock their business their way. Nicola has been featured in The Green Parent, The Guardian, The Business Mums Journal and was the winner of Work For Mums Marvellous Mumpreneur Award in 2013.