It's not just non-work time you get to share when you work at home! My 8yo has a small work table in my office; he comes home from school, opens up the backpac

It's not just non-work time you get to share when you work at home! My 8yo has a small work table in my office; he comes home from school, opens up the backpack, and we work together (my job, his homework) for a while. He usually checks up on what I'm working on -- I was lucky enough to have a mini-hacker who not only comes to tech conferences with me, but spoke at his first one at age 7. He has a play room just off my office, too, so even when we are doing our own things, we're together-ish. I find it decidedly suboptimal that our society insulates young people from work until their late teens or early 20's, then expects them to suddenly and magically become good workers. Raising my kid around my work is a huge plus, in terms of his preparation for life, his understanding why mommy works even though it takes time away from him, and increasing the time we get to spend together.