Hey @QuinnyPig - I read your most recent comments on parenting, paying attention, and work-life balance with interest. It is great that you are paying attention to all of this, and I know that it will all work out well for you and for your family.
You talked about setting an example, and that's all well and good. You know that your children will watch and learn from you, and you want to make sure that they pick up on the right cues.

I would like to talk about the other side of this...
Back before the Industrial Age, parents worked at home or on the farm, and what they did was physical, nearby, and obvious. Tend to the crops, feed and care for the animals, and so forth. It was easy for children to learn by example and to slowly take on some of the duties.
150 years ago or so, parents began to spend more time away from home, toiling away in factories. Their labor was still physical, but no longer necessarily nearby.
Children probably did not fully understand what their parents did, or how all of that time away from home turned in to shelter, food, clothing, and so forth. Perhaps those factories had a "take your kid to work" day, but somehow I doubt it.
Today, many parents are knowledge workers. What does this mean, as seen from a child's point of view? Their parents talk on the phone, type, or sometimes just sit there, thinking. It is no longer obvious what parents do, or how those thoughts & actions become money.
Seems to me that parents who are privileged to work from home have an interesting opportunity (because you totally need one more thing to do, right?) to explain what knowledge work is all about, and to show the non-obvious mapping from thought to money.
Many years ago I was consulting from home and took a short break. @tinabarr was 4 or 5 at the time, and when I told her that I had to get back to work & make money she very perceptively asked "But how do you get the money out of the computer?"
I have never forgotten that question, and think about it often in the context of knowledge work, WFH, and setting a good example.

So, go easy on yourself, be that good example, explain what you do to your family, and I think it will all turn out just fine!
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