7 Ideas To Entertain The Kids While Working From Home

Many Sales and Marketing Professionals are also Working Parents – Here’s 7 useful ideas aimed at entertaining a 3-9 years old while working from home.

Like us at Secret Source Marketing, you are probably now well into the swing of dealing with days in Lockdown, working from home whilst also acting as teacher, snack supervisor and entertainer to your children. Our team members have children across all age ranges and while we recognise every household is different, none of us are ‘perfect parents’ and of course all of our children are unique, we’ve found it helps to share ideas on how to keep children happy, stimulated and educated whilst also getting our own work done. So we thought we’d share some ideas with you that suit best the 3- 9 years age group. Hopefully at least one of them is that little nugget that helps your home working day go more smoothly.

Not The New World, It's The Now!

We don’t all have separate home offices and are often working in communal areas when we make conference calls. Although we are all aware of this situation there are some

clients that are less empathetic than others and we all fear that moment where one of the darlings pops up on screen uninvited, begins to scream about the success they’ve just had on the toilet or generally have fun making noise.

Tip:

Try and time meetings alongside the times when you know the children will be engrossed in their own scheduled activities. If they are engrossed hopefully this will give you a window of calm.

Try and arrange calls where they can keep themselves entertained in a different room with an idea of how long their activity will last or keep their interest, so you know your timescales.

working from home with children ideas If this is not possible we’ve found that children are more likely to understand your need to concentrate on a conference call if they understand how they work. Children who have been included in web calls with family or friends tend to understand why their guardian is asking them to be quiet. Try and use these opportunities to show them what makes calls difficult! Point out to them that you can’t hear Granny because more than one person is speaking at once on the call, note how things happening in the background, like the dog barking loudly, are distracting and make it harder to hear the person speaking. By linking this with the fact that you ask them to stay quiet and stay ‘out of shot’ when you are on a work call might just help you have less of a battle when you are trying to look professional from your home setting.

“I've learned with a bit of preparation, I can set my daughter up with everything she needs to complete a task. Without me standing over her, she's empowered to do things at her own pace, in her own way". (Secret Source Mother)

Create An Area Of Learning

We know you are already ploughing through the school work, hopefully using some sort of schedule that you’ve found gets you through the day, but have you made it a good work environment for the children.