The Ultimate Guide to Working from Home with the Kids

To practice social distancing, most employees around the world have shifted from office work to the home office.

Maintaining a balance between personal and work life in such periods can be challenging though, especially for employees with kids. However, controlling your lockdown life becomes possible when you learn to dedicate time to each thing separately.

Below are some tips that will surely help you get over such challenging situations.

Regular but not Frequent Breaks

Make sure you are respecting the regular Working hours, which means from 9 am to 5 pm, while at the same time taking quick breaks from time to time.

Working from home does not mean you have to work 24 hours a day or 7 days a week. Away from your sofa, bed, or kitchen, try to find a way that keeps you focused and concentrated during work hours, to avoid having delays in your professional To-Do list.

Check on the kids during your break time and make sure you gather all together for breakfast, lunch, and dinner instead of having a spaghetti bowl in front of your computer. At the same time, try to explain to your children that you will be seriously working and therefore won’t be able to take frequent breaks to check on them.

Tasks Sharing with Partner

If you have got a partner at home with you, learn to dispatch childcare tasks and activities. If you managed to come up with a timetable or schedule of indoor activities that your kids can go through during the day, allow your partner to supervise the implementation of this, and vice versa.

While children are being largely impacted by their routine’s disruption, parents should think of ways to structure these kid’s lives, as they are the ones who need the most reassurance and care in such a period. Make sure you think of the idea of indoor activities that won’t require any kind of supervision such as reading, writing, educational TV shows, School Apps or platforms, and so on…

Children Reward System

Start rewarding your children for good behavior. If you explain how busy you might be and how important for them not to interrupt you while working, and your kids fully understand the situation and respect your job hours, you have to reward them.

There are various ways in which you can pamper your kids in such cases, such as playing a game with them, reading some books to them, extending their possible online video game spent time, and others. Sometimes, just a simple ‘thank you’ or a small piece of cake work perfectly fine.

Stress Relief and Strict to-do list Avoidance

While most of us tend to come up with a timetable with the to-do lists to structure each day efficiently, sometimes it can be difficult to respect these. You should assume that kids will continuously be around to disturb and interrupt you, so you should be ready for that!

Some days would be more challenging than others. Think about it this way: Whatever you are missing during busy days can actually be postponed to calmer days. Doing so will help you get rid of a huge load of stress that you might be experiencing because of deadlines.

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