Surviving Self-Employment When You're a Parent

I've been self-employed for 21 years, for the entire life-spans of two of my three children and now with three grandchildren around, so I know just how challenging it is to juggle parenting and freelancing, just as it is to juggle parenting and in-house employment. Erin Brenner has tips for surviving.

To the links she shares, I would add these:

• “5 Ways to Juggle Freelancing and Parenting—Without Losing Your Mind”

• “Balancing Family and Freelance Journalism”

• “Dear Newly Self-Employed Editors . . .”

• “Freelancing as a Stay-at-Home Parent: 7 Smart Ways to Be More Productive”

• “How to Win as Both a Parent and a Freelancer”

• Juggling on a High Wire: The Art of Work-Life Balance When You're Self-Employed [book]

• “My Husband and I Are Full-Time Freelancers—and Full-Time Parents