Have you ever wondered why some people seem to break out of the norm to create the life they dream of and some don’t?  Or why some mums are stuck in low paid jobs that they hate? Read on to get some views from Erica Douglas of www.becomeamumpreneur.com:

Life coach and author Teejay Dowe explains you should remain faithful to who you are, and not live life the way you think you should be.
Remember when you were five years old and people would ask you: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” They allowed you to dream of being a doctor or a nurse, a policeman/woman or a fire fighter, an astronaut or a teacher, a writer or a circus performer – who knows! You could be anything …

Workingmums.co.uk, the UK’s number one jobsite for professional working mums and flexible jobseekers, is holding its second annual Top Employer Awards which celebrate the leading companies for work life balance.

Then you need the BusinessMums Summit Scholarship Programme.
We know that it can be hard to invest in the business training you need when you are starting a business and supporting a family. 
For the second year running the lovely sponsors of BusinessMumsSummit: BabyTod, Baby Signing Mummy, TotsToTravel and Become A Mumpreneur have agreed to help other mums come along to the conference. 

ACEInspire is looking for an experienced blogger to write and edit posts for a range of sites.

The Fatherhood Institute is looking for individuals and couples happy to be interviewed (and perhaps photographed or filmed) by the media later this week or early next week on the subject of Additional Paternity Leave.

Right now, the government has created proposals to alter the current maternity and paternity leave system. Dads could get more leave, taking over a proportion of the mother’s leave if she chooses to go back to work after 20 weeks. And small firms employing 10 staff or less could get an exemption from offering some maternity and paternity rights.  From my point of view, the first proposal has lots to recommend it, while the second is scary and could drive mums back to work before they and their baby are …

The number of mothers working full-time has increased from less than a quarter to almost a third over the past 15 years, new figures show.
The Office for National Statistics said 29% of mothers worked full-time at the end of last year, up from 23% in 1996, driven by a growth in full-time working generally.

Millions of women have returned to work just weeks after giving birth because they can’t afford to stay home, a study conducted on behalf of Philips AVENT reveals. Eight out of ten new mums head back to the office because they are ‘in desperate need of money’, while only one in five return to work because they love their job.

My name is Emma; I am 26 years old, a mum to five year old Rachel and wife to Mike.  Before motherhood I ran my own business as a risk and value manager and facilitator on civil engineering projects.  I closed it when Rachel was born, enabling me to focus on motherhood, local voluntary work and lay ministry in our church.
Babies become toddlers, toddlers become pre-schoolers and before you know it your baby is at school full time.  I had extra time on my hands and the cost of living …