Working from home is a good way to reconcile our work life with that other that every father has, that is, to be a father and spend time with your children. A priori, everything seems advantages, you can be with your children in a pleasant environment or that is what is expected of one's home and with a schedule that can be distributed at discretion, more or less. We are getting an idea of everything we are going to be able to do and the time we will stop wasting with traffic jams.
But what we do not realize is that our children may not have the same idea as we do to share the day and so it could happen that everything becomes a bit chaotic. Because that of work at home when surrounded by children It may not be as simple as it seemed.
Schedule
Something basic for all work activity, mark our times, a start time and an end time, your breaks, coffees ... make the purchase, put the washing machine, clean the bathroom before someone declares us a radioactive zone. It seems that the thing is a bit complicated and we have not yet added the destabilizing factor par excellence, children.
After a few months working we will realize that our life has become a first-class example of the mathematics of chaos, you know when you start (because it is just when you wake up) but that is all that you will be clear in your workday.
Therefore, the most important thing is to create a schedule and try not to go out too much.
Separate work, home and children
Are you working at home or are you multi-employed? One thing is that your office is in the living room of your house and another that your workday is 24 hours. We will have to separate the different activities in our day to day, unless we want to risk sending our customer the shopping list, who knows, maybe you are lucky and they do it to you. So if there is no other way and you have to deal with this kind of thing make a schedule.
You can take advantage of the children's school trip to make the purchase, after all if we know how to do it well, it is a time we spend with our children. In the case of cleaning the bathrooms, I have sometimes proposed it as a game and I recognize that it has leaked, sometimes. The problem is that then you have to review the bathrooms three times.
The children
Whenever I have had to work from home, children have always been the biggest problem, perhaps because they are part of the equation that has its own life. When you have a baby of a few months you can, in some cases, solve the problem by having it by your side while you work, unless you are a professional welder that then we can have a small safety problem.
When they are older, the problem is that let's respect the schedules, The theory tells us that if they know that in a while you can play with them and dedicate your time they can dedicate themselves to their games.
That's what it says the theory: Children remain entertained in their space while you work.
Reality: Dad, I want water Dad, I want to play the ball game, the one on the top shelf in the closet. Why can't I ride the scooter? Papaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, XXX has hit me. When do we have dinner? What do you do? I can work with you? I just got bored
If you propose a game while you finish working 80% of the time, all those who need adult supervision, hand painting, scissors, depleted uranium or a couple of hectares of land at least to vent out will occur , like going to the park, playing soccer or going to prepare the iron-man of the next Olympics.
And every time, start over. Where I was? What is this I have on the screen? So, if you are one of those fathers or mothers who work from home with your children polling around and you get everything to be more or less good, I can do nothing but Congratulate you and ask for the recipe.
And now I let you have to go clean the cat and put water on the little one, or was it the other way around?
