This had been bugging me for a while now....?

Question

So i plan on being a stay at home mom but i need a job and thought of tutoring. I'm smart enough so it's all good however what would happen if my baby needed me while i was tutoring? My husband wouldn't be home yet so it would be me, my baby and the kid i was tutoring. So basicly what would i do? Thanks x

Answer 1

a tutoring lesson usually goes for either half an hour, or an hour. If you plan to feed, change and nurse baby before each lesson he/she will likely be happy during the course of the lesson.

Should baby need you during a lesson, go to baby and apologize to the student.

Answer 2

give the tutoree some quiet work to do, and go take care of the baby..

Answer 3

attend to it? or plan to have the child over for tutoring while its sleeping. Thats the thing with motherhood, we learn to multitask really good. and I'm sure you can have at least an hour of having a baby in a bouncy chair or a play pen while you do your things.

Answer 4

Well try to make it so your child doesn't need you like maybe put him/her down for a nap

talk to the parent and if you need to take a small break see if thats okay and make up the time at the end of the lesson  

Answer 5

I think you should definalty consider the tutoring job as it is good pay and also quite fun. =)

but as for the baby thing i think you should hire a nanny or prehaps  you and your husband could take some time off work to take care of the baby so when hes not working he'll be looking after it and when your not working you can look after it

i hope my advice helped =D

Answer 6

I am a working mom and I have the ability to work from home whenever I want to or go to the office.  I can tell you from experience that you can not work a job at 100% with your baby there.  When they are very young it is easy but by 2 or 3 months when the fussies set in and they also start to get loud and screechy when they play- FORGET IT!

Answer 7

Instead of doing the typical one hour session, talk to the parents of the kids and be honest about the fact that you will have the baby to take care of also, so you would like to shoot for a 1hr 15minute slot, or maybe 1.5hrs, in case you need to walk away for a minute or two.  If your baby is on a strict schedule, work around that. Tutor during naps.  As long as you are honest with the parents, they should understand, they obviously have kids too.  Plus, you could go over the work with the kids being tutored, then say "ok you get 10 minutes to work this problem out yourself, let's see how you do, and I will come back and see how you did".  that way, you are teaching them to do it without you, but still helping them if being done incorrectly, and you can slip away and check on your little one.  

Answer 8

You really can't tutor and take care of a newborn. It's not fair to the student. I'm a teacher, and now that I'm a stay at home mom, I tutor in the afternoons. But I go to the library and leave my daughter with either my husband or my mom. There is NO WAY I would be able to do it with her around. Babies need all of your attention, as do the students you're working with. You'll have to find a sitter. Good luck.

Answer 9

You could hire a mother's helper...if you hire a young teen they won't charge you as much. Many teens around 13-14 look for babysitting jobs but are often too young, but helping the mother while she is home is suitable for that age group. Plus, you'll still be at home and able to check on the baby if necessary. I'm sure there are many people in your area able to help. Good luck :)