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Kids Heading to School?
Fill the Time by Fulfilling Your Dreams
By Jenn Director Knudsen
(Tricycle Press, slated for release fall 2006).
Attard, 60, of Centereach, N.Y., returned to work in an era when the vast majority of mothers did not work outside the home. But about two years into motherhood, with a toddler and infant in tow, she was desperate to do something other than caretaking. "I was bored, and we had a small house – it didn't take a long time to clean it," says Attard, a grandmother of two, whose children are now 34 and 31.
When her children were little, she spent some time thinking about what she did before becoming a mother, what she wanted to do now and whether it could fit into her family's lifestyle.
Previously a writer in various capacities, Attard wasn't passionate about that work. So she volunteered on the PTA at her son's indergarten, spearheading a fundraiser. Her effort brought in more money than any previous fundraiser ever had, Attard says.
In doing that unpaid work, it laid the path for her eventual career as an entrepreneur. Today she is owner and president of Business Know How