How to work from home with kids around
Before Breakfast
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🗓️ 17 March 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:19.8 | Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:27.0 | Good morning. This is Laura. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | Today's tip is about how to work from home with kids around. |
| 0:37.0 | I've worked out of home offices for years, |
| 0:40.0 | but my cardinal rule has always been that work is work, and so just as if I were in an office, |
| 0:45.2 | I need child care for kids who are too young to watch themselves. |
| 0:49.1 | I make sure to tell people who'd like to try working from home that it's actually not a great way to save money on |
| 0:53.8 | child care. I mean, yes, you'll need fewer hours if you don't have a commute, but you'll need |
| 0:58.4 | another caregiver or family member to watch your children, or you'll need to enroll them in |
| 1:02.3 | daycare or mostly use school hours. |
| 1:04.9 | Otherwise you'll feel pulled in multiple directions and constantly distracted. |
| 1:09.9 | With many offices closing these days due to concerns about the coronavirus, |
| 1:13.8 | lots of people are trying working from home. The problem with this is that many schools and |
| 1:18.0 | daycares are also closed, and so these experiments in remote work are going to be far from ideal. |
| 1:24.3 | That said, it's also just life and we need to deal with it. |
| 1:27.8 | My kids are home from school for the next few weeks. |
| 1:30.3 | And there are a few ways I've found and that maybe you can find too to preserve time to focus and spend time with your kids and keep all of you from going insane. |
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