I've been working from home for the last 7 years. Interruptions suck and you don't need to embrace them. You can perfectly have a dedicated time for your famil

I've been working from home for the last 7 years. Interruptions suck and you don't need to embrace them. You can perfectly have a dedicated time for your family as well as dedicated time for your job. It's all about planning and ensuring that people around you understand your schedule. You can still have 1 hour allocated time with your son during the day and you can be present, that doesn't mean your son needs to interrupt you 5 random times within 3 hours. If you know when he comes home from school, by all means allocate that fixed 30 minutes or whatever to him, perfect. There is pretty much no difference between allocating random time frames to people you love vs. allocating fixed times to people you love. We all know from experiments, various sources and for many from personal experiences interruptions do hurt productivity, induce stress and generally bad. Also, you can turn this around. Instead of being interrupted between your tasks (out of zone moments) just make rounds at the house, talk to your wife, enjoy a snack, take 15 minutes break. Then go back to hacking with a clear, recharged head. So why sacrifice your focus/productivity when you don't have to?