Working At Home With Kids *Whew*
I don’t have kids, but I spent last week watching two children while trying to keep my schedule as normal as possible.
I learned two things:
1) Having a schedule for both you and the kids is key. Without it you are setting yourself up to be less than productive.
2) Even with the schedule things will still get off track.
Because I had a school-aged child as well as a newborn I got to see the full scope of things.
Newborns are newborns and you are on their schedule and that’s that.
School-aged children need to be kept busy.
What I decided to do what type up a daily schedule. I made sure I had activities for all times of the day so that I would have a chance to get some work done.
There was arts and crafts time, school work, reading time, tv time, exercise time, and so on. Keeping that schedule would probably get tiring day after day (because I had to come up with the school work and arts and crafts activities); but it’s better than having kids complaining to you every 5 minutes that they are bored.
Like I said, I don’t have kids but that was what worked for me. What has your experience been like?
