1. Don't allow your business to consume all your child's waking hours.  Pick up your child from school and go on a lunch date once a week.  Focus solely on your child during that time.  Cell
phone and pager OFF.  Things can wait a half an hour and your child goes back to school a mini-celebrity.  If your child's school will not let them off campus, then dine in the dining room with her.  Your child will be the envy of all her friends.

2. Do you have a teen?  Apprentice him/her in your business!  At conventions, let him work  the booth with you.  Bring him to networking breakfasts and luncheons, introducing him as your
partner.  Not only will it polish your child, and bring him more  esteem, it will teach him business etiquette as well.

3. Have your child do her homework in your office as you do your paperwork.  Working and problem solving side by side can do wonders for both of you.  Closeness is not just in deep
conversations, special outings and spending money on expensive gifts, but in being together.  By having this open door for homework policy, you may even see your child spend more time
on schoolwork.

4. Brainstorm with your child.  Need some fresh ideas?  Make brainstorming a game over dinner!  After discussing the respective days of your family members, bring up a situation at work you
need help with.  See who can come up with the most creative solution.  While you may not get exactly what you need, your brains will all stretch and get more polished in the meantime!

5. Include your younger child in your business as much as possible:  allow him to stuff envelopes or do simple filing.  Have him sit at your desk and take care of such simple tasks as you interact 
with clients and customers on the telephone so you model how to behave as a business   person as they also participate in the process.

5. Hold  at least one "Family Night" a week where no business is  discussed.  Decide once a month what you will do on your  Family Nights.  Maintain this schedule as you would any other 
commitment. 

7. Be in partnership with your child.  Let her know how much you value her above all things.  When you are together, look at her when she talks to you.  Give her recognition for her ideas.  Do 
not lose focus of the important reasons why you get up in the morning and work as you do.  Show that little reason why each and every day!

Julie Jordan Scott is a Life Coach, Speaker, Writer and Mom to three glorious girls, one of which is playing at her feet as she wrote this article.  Visit her at http://www.5passions.com to sign up for an upcoming free Teleclass, subscribe to a Free Ezine, or just learn a lot about living passionately!  Julie is driven by the Passions in her life.   A Certified Life Purpose Coach as well as a Motivational Speaker and Writer, Julie loves her role as Mommy best of all.  Her ebook, "Don't Let it Take Two Death Threats: My Journey to Living Passionately Everyday" has been read by people on five continents.