My experience with WFH when my teens were much younger, is that a laptop with 100% wifi is required, and toddlers building lego or similar isn't really any more

My experience with WFH when my teens were much younger, is that a laptop with 100% wifi is required, and toddlers building lego or similar isn't really any more distracting than an open office environment. Probably less distracting in that toddlers are somewhat more predictable than coworkers. If you work in an open office environment you'll expect WFH will be hyper productive due to lack of distractions and then get very disappointed that you'll lose 50% of those gains by toddler interruption. In practice, note you're still ahead of the open office people talking about sports and Trump derangement syndrome and plans for partying this weekend and sex and relationships and pop culture for hours on end, just not going to be as far ahead of them as you expected/hoped. You have to get good at short term budgeting of attention. Its rare to have a license plate stamping job of continuous 100% effort required for precisely 8 hours per day or whatever. Work on diagnosing the tricky bug report or new architecture design during nap time after lunch, I had a solid hour or more to concentrate uninterrupted. I can do comparatively mindless "TPS report header changes" for hours in the morning while refereeing toddler arguments about who took my lego piece. I can write a perfectly good status report email during a Thomas the Tank Engine episode, for example. I find the mandatory time discipline is actually useful in that it prevents wasting too much time on things that don't technically require the optimization. Could I spend an extra two hours on that power point that management is going to completely modify anyway? Yeah, I could, and in the office I would, but at home, the kids want me to play catch for ten minutes outside, and it was just busywork anyway. In the office my doctor advised me a long time ago to stand up and walk around every hour for leg circulation. I've also avoided carpal tunnel that way, or maybe its the weight lifting. At home I probably spent 1/12 to 1/6 of my time supervising the kids. Productivity really didn't change. For your own health you should probably be taking breaks often anyway, so having the kids around isn't that bad. Nobody ever complained about being too healthy and not taking breaks is unhealthy.