I was talking with my little son while he was staying with us this week. He was quizzing me about my job as I was sitting at my laptop all day. He knows that I have an Internet Business, Work From Home and do a number of Online Jobs, but he wanted to understand just what I did. “Why are you always typing on your laptop?”

He even used VOIP messaging on his father’s laptop, to talk to me while I was working on.

I told him that for a lot of my time, I write reports for clients. I explained that reports are like stories. He asked what these reports were about. I advised that they could be about any subject, but had to reflect the concerns of my client too. In the way of young kids, he advised me he could easily write stories about anything, pointed to his beanbag and advised me he could without any trouble at all write a story about that!

Well, I do not wish to be outdone by a 9 year old, so here goes, I will write a report about his beanbag.

Here I sit, on our young boy’s beanbag, while I Work From Home, writing reports for clients to assist in promoting their internet sites. While this beanbag can be comfy for short periods, I realize I will not be sitting here long, as I have an inclination to slip off and onto the floor, making it rather tricky to focus on my Internet Business of search engine optimization (also known as seo).

The little polystyrene balls move to support my back, which means that provided I do not need to change position I am okay, but the only way I can manage to get back up out of the beanbag is to roll onto my knees and get up from there. I am positive there is a talent to getting off a beanbag in a dignified manner which leaves one in one’s teens.

When I am not obtaining the beanbag for my Online Jobs, it joins the other two we own and they have many different uses, many of which I am positive were never the goal of their original manufacturer. In our house they are used as very effective draught excluders, pushed up against our living room door. They are also used in playfights between father and son – being picked up by the handle and used as a tool for hitting each other – in a gentle fashion. They are also used as landing cushions as he and his friends launch themselves from the sofa, moving the beanbag further and further away and attempting to land in the centre of the beanbag.

This week he found a further new use, steps towards the ceiling, in order to endeavour to reach one of those sticky toys which had somehow managed to attach itself to our ceiling – one did not quite make him tall enough to reach the toy, but two (I could hardly bear to watch) worked just right. No bones were broken in the harum-scarum pursuit, so I think it could be counted a successful venture.

This article goes to show that if we listen to our youngsters we can be challenged to look at things in a new light and maybe even gain from the experience.