Remote Working During Summer

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Remote Working During Summer: How To Squeeze In Some Peacefully Productive Hours When The Kids Are Home

If you’re a parent, you’re already going to have a challenge ahead trying to balance both raising your kids and focusing on your career. OI course, most of the time you have daycare and/or school hours to help out with this. But when the summer rolls around, however, you suddenly have to balance it all and make good on both sides of your life. 

How are you supposed to squeeze in some peaceful and productive working hours when the kids are home and you’re just itching to get outside with them? It’s quite the conundrum, but here are a few tips that could help out. 

Set a Quiet Time Rule

Quiet time is sometimes a necessity! And yes, it’s nice to have a home full of children’s chatter and laughter, but you really do need a bit of quiet here and there to get things done. You don’t need silence, and the kids are still allowed to make some noise, but a quiet time rule can set limits on how much noise that is. 

Pick a time of day when quiet time needs to happen, maybe from 10am to 12pm or from 2pm to 4pm, and then make sure you reinforce the rule when the kids break it. You’re never going to get anything done if you don’t have a bit of consistency in the house! 

Set Up a Divider

If you’ve got a divider up, the kids are going to find it much harder to make their way round and cause a fuss. Don’t feel bad for needing to use one of these though! It’s simply a way to draw up a boundary that’s physical and can be easily reinforced. If they come round it while you’re behind it, it’s not very nice and they’ve broken the quiet time rule you set up above. 

So think about investing in room dividers, to set up in any room you like to work out of while you’re at home with the kids. Your career can have a little of your time to itself when you’ve got a literal barrier behind you and it doesn’t have to be a problem. 

Remember What You’re Working For

If the one thing that’s bothering you right now is the fact that the sun is out and you can see your kids outside, running around, laughing, and splashing in the paddling pool, it can be hard to stay motivated on the laptop screen in front of you. It’s only natural to want to head out there and join them and we don’t blame you for that. 

However, remember what it is you’re working for: your future, as well as theirs. When you’re able to balance your career and home life against each other, not only do you benefit your kids in the here and now, but you make their future more enriching as well. 

If you have to work remotely this summer, you can still balance fun at the same time!