If you are a parent with children between 3 and 6, you can relate to the difficulty of balancing working at home while taking care of young kids. Both activities require your attention yet it's your smiling little angels who usually win out at the expense of your work productivity. Having a strategy in place to strike the right balance will reap huge rewards for both parents and kids. The following tips can be used as a template to help level the work-at-home playing field.
- Give them their own jobs. Kids love tackling tasks around the house. Especially if you empower them by providing them with work that they can complete independently. For example, you could ask them to fold and put away laundry or putting books away on the shelf by size order. It could be a "clean up" contest with a family prize. Maybe a special lunch with mom or dad?
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All of the above suggestions can be utilized in conjunction with one another depending upon the time frame required. Children's interests vary so what ends up being effective will be a subjective endeavor attributed to trial and error. Parents more so than kids will need an open-minded approach. Remembering to breathe helps too.
How do you handle working at home with kids? Please comment below to add some ideas.