| It is something that many parents dream of:the chance | | | | can lead to the decline of many cultural and social |
| to be able to stay at home with their children and to | | | | traditions.Cocooning also affects the way we interact |
| not need to take their children to the babysitters so | | | | with other when do finally leave the house and meet |
| they can go to work. | | | | face to face. |
| It is hard to find a place in this world that will allow you | | | | The availability and popularity of the internet has |
| to work and contribute to the family income, but that | | | | changed the way that humans communicate and |
| will also allow you to stay at home with your | | | | interact. We can spend hours in chat rooms pretending |
| children.Luckily, if you are working online there are | | | | to be beautiful,successful and brilliant when in fact we |
| many jobs that you can do as a stay at home parent, | | | | are average looking, overweight and unemployed.The |
| and still do your best to help your family make ends | | | | person at the other end of the keyboard has no way |
| meet. | | | | of verifying our claims or disproving them. |
| There are many different jobs that stay at home | | | | Discussion over the internet removes an essential |
| parents might do.The important thing about working | | | | aspect of communication: body language.Such things |
| from home and being a stay at home parent is that | | | | as posturing,fidgeting and eye contact all are |
| you can set your own hours.This is very important if | | | | unconscious transmitters of our true intentions.We |
| you have small children that are going to need your | | | | learn as small children not to make eye contact when |
| time. Instead of making your children wait until your | | | | telling a lie and to cross our arms to distance ourselves |
| work is finished,you can figure out a way to make | | | | from unpleasant people or situations.As of today, the |
| your work wait until your children have free time you | | | | computer screen has no way of converting these |
| can spend at work. | | | | communication skills into data that can be observed as |
| Being a stay at home parent and working is something | | | | overtones in the written text of a conversation. |
| that requires a little bit of structure,but once you have | | | | This cocooning may affect the communication skills of |
| figured it out is something that is easy to do. You are | | | | future generations.While excelling at expressing |
| going to be able to stay at home and get your work | | | | themselves through the written word, our children may |
| done, and you are also going to be able to show your | | | | lack the skills to give a convincing speech in public of |
| family that you care about them by being there for | | | | carry on a comfortable conversation while waiting in |
| your kids all of the time. | | | | line at the grocery store.Some youth even use text |
| There are many things that a stay at home parent | | | | messaging to communicate when they are in the |
| can do to work from home.The most important thing | | | | same room. |
| that you can do is to figure out what kinds of things | | | | The prevalence of home based businesses may be in |
| you are interested in.You should try to get a stay at | | | | part due to this preference for cocooning and |
| home job that falls in one of your interests,because | | | | nonverbal communication.It is perfectly acceptable to |
| working is something that is going to be with your for | | | | home school your children, run a business from your |
| awhile and you want to be sure that not only are you | | | | home, email your mother and fax your clients.You can |
| doing good work but you are making ends meet for | | | | even order a pizza, shop for a birthday gift and have |
| your family in a way that makes you happy. | | | | your groceries delivered:all without any verbal |
| There are many stay at home parents,who work only | | | | communication. |
| in their fields, whether this is writing or marketing or | | | | As in everything in life,a balance is needed.If you email |
| other forms of art.You can find something that you | | | | your mother today,call her tomorrow and visit her on |
| love to do, and you can find a way to do it at home, | | | | the weekend.If you work from home,make time to visit |
| so your children never have to be at home without | | | | the park.Join social groups rather that internet |
| you, and your family time can be spent as a family. | | | | message forums.Limit the amount of time that your |
| Working form home is something that has become | | | | children use the internet and cell phone for text |
| quite popular with families and with other parents.Try | | | | messaging.Encourage teens to take a speech or |
| to find a way that it can fit in your lifestyle as well. | | | | debate class along with that computer programming |
| Are Home Based Businesses Encouraging Social | | | | class when signing up for college courses. |
| Isolation? | | | | Many great social traditions like wedding rituals and |
| Sociologists have studied what has been termed | | | | back yard barbeques may someday soon be in |
| "cocooning" very carefully since the explosion of the | | | | danger of extinction.We all must do our part to keep |
| World Wide Web.Cocooning is the process of social | | | | the spark of social interaction alive for future |
| isolation where a society withdraws from physical | | | | generations. |
| interaction with each other.This "hermit-like" behaviour | | | | |