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It would be impossible to upvote this enough. Work-at-home dad here with 3 kids (1.5, 3, 6--only one of which regularly attends school). My wife's time is 110

by gacba 15y ago

It would be impossible to upvote this enough. Work-at-home dad here with 3 kids (1.5, 3, 6--only one of which regularly attends school). My wife's time is 110% occupied with them. If you're going to pull this off, you need: a) dedicated child care b) dedicated work space that you can hide from the kids c) cooperation from your wife to enforce #2, as the kids don't like staying away Good luck.

wiredfool 15y ago
Mine are a few months older than gacba's, and yeah, it's a 110% job to keep them occupied. There's some home schooling, there's a yard for them to run around in, and other kid stuff to play with, but I get interrupted from time to time. If I've got to take care of them for some reason, it's about all I can do to keep an eye on email and respond if I have to. Though, by now, it's mostly the little guy (21 mo) who needs the completely constant attention. He's still at the age that when he is quiet, that's when you need to be worried about what he's gotten into. The older two can pretty much self entertain for an hour or two, unless they get into some project that needs a bunch of help for finding materials. Or they 'accidentally' hurt each other with sticks. I don't see Caregiver + programmer working for an 18mo old, other than for a random slice of time here and there. I am the primary care person for him from bedtime on -- sometimes I get a couple hours to program at night, sometimes I get an hour, and sometimes, I'm laying down with him awake, he's flopping about, and I'm >< this close to getting something working and it's damn frustrating because every time I think he's asleep, there's another flop and a hand to keep me from escaping. I've been known to tell him that he doesn't need to respond to awakeFromNib, but he doesn't listen as well as a compiler.

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It would be impossible to upvote this enough. Work-at-home dad here with 3 kids (1.5, 3, 6--only one of which regularly attends school). My wife's time is 110

by gacba 15y ago

wiredfool 15y ago
Mine are a few months older than gacba's, and yeah, it's a 110% job to keep them occupied. There's some home schooling, there's a yard for them to run around in, and other kid stuff to play with, but I get interrupted from time to time. If I've got to take care of them for some reason, it's about all I can do to keep an eye on email and respond if I have to. Though, by now, it's mostly the little guy (21 mo) who needs the completely constant attention. He's still at the age that when he is quiet, that's when you need to be worried about what he's gotten into. The older two can pretty much self entertain for an hour or two, unless they get into some project that needs a bunch of help for finding materials. Or they 'accidentally' hurt each other with sticks. I don't see Caregiver + programmer working for an 18mo old, other than for a random slice of time here and there. I am the primary care person for him from bedtime on -- sometimes I get a couple hours to program at night, sometimes I get an hour, and sometimes, I'm laying down with him awake, he's flopping about, and I'm >< this close to getting something working and it's damn frustrating because every time I think he's asleep, there's another flop and a hand to keep me from escaping. I've been known to tell him that he doesn't need to respond to awakeFromNib, but he doesn't listen as well as a compiler.