Summary: <h1>Parent Driven Development</h1> <h2>Episode 008: Remote working with kids</h2> <h3>00:37 Who all works remotely?</h3> <h3>02:30 Working remotely with kids at home</h3> <p>Lifestyle choice <br> Nursing and alternate schedules<br> Spouses working from home as well</p> <h3>06:00 Working remotely before and after having a child</h3> <p>The difference between working from home with a spouse also working from home vs. not<br> Hard starts and stops to your day </p> <h3>10:00 JC forgets pickup</h3> <h3>11:00 Dealing with interruptions</h3> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/Mh4f9AYRCZY" rel="nofollow">This classic example</a><br> Interruptions from your spouse vs. the kid(s)</p> <h3>15:00 Allison joins</h3> <h3>15:45 Do companies who accept remote work also do better at understanding flexible schedules and work/life balance?</h3> <p>Tyranny of the green dot on Slack<br> What are the expectations of being remote?<br> Do we feel guilty about doing "life" or kid stuff during the work day?</p> <h3>19:53 Being a remote worker vs. being on a distributed team</h3> <p>Understanding working hours<br> Helping colleagues be more purposeful about working hours and communication</p> <h3>23:00 Shared calendars and communicating hours to your team</h3> <p>slack notifications and snoozing<br> google calendar work hours<br> basecamp Tools</p> <h3>24:00 Based on <a href="https://cate.blog/2016/12/29/figuring-out-remote-work-is-figuring-out-work/" rel="nofollow">Cate's blog post</a> Going in to an office established a lot of defaults for a team and working remotely it helps to be more explicit</h3> <h3>25:30 Being in the office is nice because you get to talk to other adults. How do you deal with isolation?</h3> <p>Going to stores<br> Being in the coffee shop<br> Parenting groups and daycares<br> Playdates with other kids<br> The difficulty of coworking and coffee shop working while pumping<br> Leads to great isolation which is pretty difficult <br> Rant about when people tell you to be social while pumping (spoiler: it's not that easy!!) </p> <h3>31:00 Being home instead of going out as a matter of priorities</h3> <p>What do you want to have time for?</p> <h3>33:00 Listener Question!! Our first!! It is so exciting!!!</h3> <p>When is the right time to introduce screens to your child and how did you do it?</p> <p>Allison introduced games first, mostly on flights. When Allison introduced tv shows, she tried to make it educational like <a href="http://pbskids.org/daniel/" rel="nofollow">Daniel Tiger</a>, <a href="http://pbskids.org/" rel="nofollow">PBS shows</a>, etc.<br> Talking to your child about what they watched and what they learned<br> KWu thinks what screen time and for what purpose. And introduce something, see the effect and make changes from there.<br> JC said as you have more kids, it's harder to control media and screen time. Having structure around things is very important.<br> Josh remembers lots of research but can't remember when they introduced screens<br> Andy says do it collectively and sparingly<br> KWu says that technology and watching things can be used as bonding time and can focus on artistic or creative endeavors as opposed to isolating<br> JC talks about use of imagination using programs like <a href="https://minecraft.net/en-us/" rel="nofollow">minecraft</a>.</p> <h3>45:00 Genius / Fail moments</h3> <p><em>JC</em> - my daughter has been playing softball and she looked at pictures of herself batting and fixed an issue! She was resilient and didn't get discouraged. #Genius<br> <em>Allison</em> - Everything is a genius and fail right now. My son's preschool teacher told me that he's doing fantastic #Genius<br> <em>Josh</em> - my daughter has guinea pigs named Ana and Elsa and one of them fell which led to a visit to the vet. There they found out Ana and Elsa are male which led to a great discussion about gender and what gender means. #Genius<br> <em>KWu</em> - Marriage win! We started watching the Americans together and it is so nice to be doing something together and have something not household related to talk about. #Genius<br> <em>Andy</em> - After a difficult day, my daughter wrote "I love you daddy, even when you're grumpy" #Genius? or #Fail?</p> <h3>53:00 Contact Us!</h3> <p>Tell us what you're learning! </p> <h3>Follow & Support</h3> <p>Please follow us <a href="https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev" rel="nofollow">@parentdrivendev</a> on Twitter or email us at <a href="mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com" rel="nofollow">panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com</a>. Our website is at <a href="https://parentdrivendevelopment.com" rel="nofollow">ParentDrivenDevelopment.com</a><br> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev" rel="nofollow">Support us via Patreon</a> and get access to our our Slack Community.</p> <h2>Panel:</h2> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/joshpuetz" rel="nofollow">Josh Puetz</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/allie_p" rel="nofollow">Allison McMillan</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/jcavena" rel="nofollow">JC Avena</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/kwu" rel="nofollow">KWu</a><br> <a href="https://twitter.com/andycroll" rel="nofollow">Andy Croll</a></p> <h2>Additional links:</h2> <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@benthompson/breaking-down-the-father-on-bbc-being-interrupted-by-his-children-9840cdc8857b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@benthompson/breaking-down-the-father-on-bbc-being-interrupted-by-his-children-9840cdc8857b</a></li> <li><a href="https://youtu.be/-Ojvk-4IcOE" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/-Ojvk-4IcOE</a></li> </ul>
