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How to work at home with young kids without losing your mind. Follow these tips to reduce stress and stay productive
- The coronavirus pandemic means that millions of parents are trying to work from home while keeping their kids occupied
- Here are some tips and guidelines to help you do your job with children thrown into the mix
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“How to work from home with kids?” lamented my friend over the phone to me (yes, we’re practising social distancing). “How do you do it?”, she asked in a voice made hoarse from shouting at her kids, while in the background I could hear squeals, whoops and thuds. This clumsy orchestra was composed of her children, aged nine and seven.
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The world is shutting down due to the Covid-19 pandemic. As a result, people are finding themselves confined in their homes with their families. They’re learning new terms: social distancing, self-quarantine, and work from home. These are essential phrases to know and understand to slow down the spread of the virus, and keep economies and businesses ticking. But for many, how to work from home with kids thrown into the mix is challenging to say the least.
How is it possible to be on a conference call with your preschooler banging on his toy drum in the background? Even worse is that video call you have tomorrow morning around the time the kids wake up and loudly demand breakfast (remember “BBC dad”?).
How can you focus on that urgent report your manager is demanding, when your child is equally demanding about getting food every two hours?
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These are just a few of the issues work-at-home-mums like me face and deal with often.
Here are some useful work-from-home tips I shared with my stressed-out friend, that will surely help you, too, work effectively from home, especially when your kids are also with you.
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