From the course: Working from Home: Strategies for Success

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Plan breaks with your kids

Plan breaks with your kids

- If you're working early morning hours and working when your kids are asleep, that means you actually have off-time during the day, so you should plan special breaks with your kids. Take 'em outside, teach 'em how to fly a kite, do a scavenger hunt, teach 'em a board game. Just do special things to spend time with them. Maybe ya teach grandma how to use Zoom and get on a video chat so grandma can see your kids. You want to just do special things for your kids so that they can be making special memories too, and not just waiting on you to get done working. The other thing too is, if you do special things with your kids, they'll probably be a little bit more patient and less obnoxious when you're on a Zoom call with your boss. So it's a give and take thing, but you are a parent and an employee or business owner. So you've got to figure out how to do both, your kids are only going to be young once. So figure out how to spend…

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