Work from home while taking care of your children … without losing your sanity!
These are the secrets for you to be able to work from home while taking care of your children, it is possible, believe it or not!
More and more people are becoming autonomous people who decide to work from home, especially when they have a family and it is a good way to combine work and family life. Although working from home is not something for everyone, since it takes a lot of self-discipline and perseverance at work. In addition, working from home with children close by also requires a lot of patience, knowing how to be and organization.
When you have your child at home, no matter how old they are, it can be difficult to do any job, whatever it is. Concentration is more complicated and being able to work with all the senses is almost an impossible mission. There are companies that when their employees work from home, make them sign a contract so that they are not the main caregivers of the children, thus ensuring that they will be able to carry out their work even if they are at home.
Although if you have no other option, you should take steps to control your child’s behavior and be able to balance parenting and work, at the same time, and without losing your sanity!
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MAKE EXPECTATIONS CLEAR
If you have a small child, it is impossible for them to rationalize. You will have to manage your expectations well so that he understands when your work time is . Instead, for older children you should sit them down at the beginning of the day (or the week, or the month) and explain how the day will be structured.
For example, you can tell him that you will work two hours without anyone bothering you, then you will eat and go to the park. When you return, you will have to work until dinner, for example, and you can tell him that he will only be able to interrupt you in case of an emergency. You can give them ideas of things to do while you are working like playing with siblings, reading a story, doing homework or watching a movie.
YOU HAVE A PLAN TO FOLLOW
If you know that you will work from home with children only sporadically, create fun opportunities for your children on those days. You can organize a game date or designate a morning as a special movie marathon, with breakfast in front of the TV. However, you can also take advantage of this useful idea: a jar of boredom. Write time-consuming activities on a piece of paper and challenge your little ones to ditch the jar every time they complain that they are bored. Some of the ideas that you can include in the boredom jar are:
-Build a high ground
-Choose a task from the weekly task table to complete in advance
-Console game challenges
-Read two chapters of a book
-Write a letter to (person’s name)
-Color
-Write a story
-Costume games
-…
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FROM HOME
When you work from home, who says it has to be from home? If you need a computer and Wi-Fi … maybe that combination you can also have in another place. If you manage to take your computer as a laptop or tablet and you can take the Internet with you, you can go to the beach, a park or a rural family house where the children have more freedom to play and have fun.
You just have to make sure you watch your children well while you work or go to work at Grandma’s house so that your children have a good time with them even if you have to work a little before lunch or dinner.
When it comes down to it, working from home with the kids around you requires flexibility; You must not only manage their behavior but also your own expectations. Instead of coffee breaks or chatting with peers, you will have to take child breaks and spend 30 minutes playing with your little ones. Although sometimes it is possible that you only require a little quiet time to finish your work and you require the help of a babysitter or a trusted family member who comes to your house to help you out.
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.