Working At Home With Kids
January 12th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
Bismillah,
“Siti, how did you manage your work with your kids around??”. This is one of the best question that ‘working at home mum’ to be always ask. Owh, everytime this question comes to me, I can’t stop my mouth to say, “If U don’t wanna get tired, work at the office!!” He he…and that is seriously sincere answer to that question.
A week before, I read this entry from kakyong. I understand how hard she is to handle her 3 wonderkids because I have 4 with me!! But, alhamdulillah my husband is always there as he also a Working At Home Dad. But this will change in this month due this 5th birth and he has to move his business place . We are still visualising how our life could be because one or two mega-things and hoping that ALLAH will show us the best way.
It will be really a very exciting day to write this entry. I love to share what I did with my kids at home with you but first, please give me an apologize because in this 1 last month of my pregnancy, the situation is not like what am I going to tell you. I just did a very basic things as long as my floor clean, our food and clothes stock is always there and my kids can learn at least one day one page of reading and counting. I still continue my online bizz and my business down my floor will be monitor by my lovely staff.
So, how to work at home with our kids around??
- Schedule and to-do-list – I have to make a schedule for two weeks. If you have 7 days a week, I have 14 days a week. It is just to plan my mission earlier. I will get excited if I ready some activities for them and let them did it while me, finish my work. Please refer to this entry to see my schedule.
- Control our environment – we have to design a SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) so that we will find it is cool enough to do our work. Please refer this link in Diari Naufal which is so many deco for WAHM in our own house. An organized worksac will help us to minimize the distractions and make the most of the limited time we have available.
- Make our office as their office to – if we are playing with paper and the computer, we must give them something handy for them too. If they are interested in a toybox, lt them stash some of their toys there. Don’t forget to encourage them to play quietly while we are working. If we don’t do this, our child will soon discover that our stuff as a toy!!
- Pass on your old computer – many of my friends did this. Nothing makes the kids happier than doing the same thing that we are doing. We need educative CD, software or maybe any web that provide kids activities.
- Adapt to their schedule - one of the great objective for being a WAHM is we can enjoy the flexibility. If there’s a part of our day that requires the utmost concentration, schedule that part during their nap time, or after their bedtime, or while they’re off to school. Working slightly crazy hours is much better than yelling at kids when we’re trying to enforce absolute silence. I really love my 8 a.m to 2 p.m because my Asmaa’, Usamah, Uwaiys are off to school. Because of that, Arwa also like to sleep but if she is awake, she will join me to do my housework. Mmm…wondering how it could be when my baby inside my tummy born…. *ngeri…ngeri… will I be a Tarzan again??
- Treat our child first – if they ask for milk or food, just give them what they want. If they ask you a question but you don’t have the answer, please always remember Mr Google. If they want to sleep, they will need your sweet lullaby. Better entertain them first before they get their tantrum and you have to double your time entertaining them.
- Set your limit – you’re the boss…opss..you’re the parent. So if you don’t want them to take things off your desk, say so. The key is to find the balance that works for us, so that we can have a successful career and raise our lovely kids ourself.
- Be up front with customers – I always mention my customer, “Owh, I am sorry. That is my kids playing around,” and this will ranging from sympathy to envy. They will understand this.
- Get help when you need it – your husband or maybe your wife, your business partner or maybe your downline or upline. Or maybe you still have to send your kids to nursery for a few hour until you finish your work.
It is really cool being a WAHM. I can sleep whenever I want, I can watch my favourite drama (hey…did you see Munajah Cinta @ tv9?? I hate myself because I love the polygamy drama), I can cook and eat anytime. The best part is I can gado-gado with my kids. Just put a scream (penuh harakat dan lagu taranum) and they will clean our house and ask, “Umi cantik dah rumah??“
Maybe this 94 ways to keep kids busy for the work at home parent will help us 
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Comment by denaihati on 12 January 2010:
Bagus sungguh tips ni. Father working at home juga boleh gunakan panduan ni. Terima kasih.
Pengumuman : Terima kasih kepada semua team mombloggers yg dah singgah di rumah baru Denaihati @ denaihati.com. Kepada yg belum join contest Berani Gagal masih ada masa lagi joom join.
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sitisifir10 Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 1:19 PM
Hope that my husband pun boleh jadi WAHD tapi sebab reban ayam dan kuda takleh masukkan dalam rumah, maka dia terpaksalah tinggalkan kami di pagi2 dan petang2 utk bg makan ternakan dia…huhuhu..
saya puas singgah di rumah baru..sekarang ia lebih suit dgn google chrome yang saya gunakan…seblom ni tak leh nak tinggal komen pun unless saya buka Mozilla tu
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denaihati Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 3:47 PM
Ni pun dah 80% WAHD. Besok ada pengumuman khas contest Berani Gagal..jangan tak visit ya.
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Comment by eyriqazz on 12 January 2010:
tips yg bagus utk diamalkan.bilala aku ble jadi WAHD ya?
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sitisifir10 Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 1:24 PM
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Comment by kakyong on 12 January 2010:
pija,
nama ku diseru dalam blogpost ini…
sebahagian besar tips sudah di’jalan’kan , cuma kena perbaiki here & there to make it more efficient…
94 way to pun bagus.. btw, not much that we can do if our kids is less than 3 years olds, sbb depa memang really need our full attention.. daku terpaksa-rela utk agreed (buat masa ni) dgn statement ini.
“The smaller your children are, the smaller your business To Do list should be.
Plain and simple, until your kids are 3-4 years old, don’t expect yourself to be super-mom. Kids this young just need too much attention and the business will have to fit in between nap times and play dates – oh, and get used to starting your most productive work at 10:00pm.
”
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Hanz Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 3:33 PM
Agree with Kakyong..the key to be WAHM also depends on your child, likewise; age, character & needs.
Me set my mind once my youngest son dah at least 3 years old, baru betul2 nak implement WAHM…for the time being, masih mencari & usaha sana-sini….
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Comment by Jiji on 12 January 2010:
woah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Discipline mesti ada!!!
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Hanz Reply:
January 12th, 2010 at 3:34 PM
Jiji, mana2 pun kena discipline..FTWM pun kena balancekan life..takkan nak fikir career jer…(peringatan untuk diri sendiri jugak!!)
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Comment by h4ni3 on 12 January 2010:
agak-agak kalo saya jadi WHAM n babysit anak kat rumah, mau naik kot blood pressure.. hehehe
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Comment by BabyIbu on 12 January 2010:
hmm nice topic..saya study at home mum..hmm sangat mencabar dan penat. Ammar baru setahun 8 bulan dan ya betul memang kena banyak berkorban. buat list things to do untuk minggu ni, kadang-kadang minggu depan pn bawa ke bawa. Dah cuba bagi tengok cd, bagi buku kaler dan mainan lain tak payah cakaplah tapi nak Ibu juga dok sebelah. Adehhh. Bukan superwoman ni namanya tapi macam superman hilang sayap. Last-last pengsan dengan Ammar sekali. Hehe.
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sitisifir10 Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 11:46 AM
Superman ada sayap ehh?? Sejak bila ek…
Sama lah to my kids, kita prepare itu ini but the best thing to them is celah ketiak umi dia ni lah jugak…
so, yang paaaaaling bagus, time diorang tido but to me ada satu prob iaitu
umi terlena dulu dari anak and later anak terjaga dulu dari umi 
So, alang2 anak ramai, maka kakak2 dan abang2 lah yang tengokkan adik mereka
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Comment by juan on 12 January 2010:
i think the most difficult thing is to make clients understand that our children is a part of our work environment. but then again, itu semua assumptions aje… as soon as clients know, they actually respect us for having such a challenging but fulfilling atmosphere to work in
tapi kesabaran kena kuat and it helps so much to have a very supportive other half… kepenatan tu sentiasa ada which sometimes pening jugak questioning why we can get so tired… but as long as semua ni berbaloi untuk family, rasa so rewarded at the end of the day.
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sitisifir10 Reply:
January 13th, 2010 at 11:50 AM
customer saya, sejak 2 tahun buka kedai ni…saya rasa tak sampai sepuluh orang yang nampak la mukanya tak puas hati…yg penting semasa ada customer, saya pas kan anak dengan sesuatu atau kalau tak boleh terpaksa minta seorang staff bawa dia jauh2…
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Comment by UmmiKhayra on 13 January 2010:
Suka artikel ini.. Artikel ni dapat membantu saya bila saya nak mulakan WAHM.. Heheh tapi bila tu, kena tungggu la masa yang sesuai.
Setuju dengan akak. Anak-anak ni, kalau dah plan cemana pun, buat apa-apa aktiviti pun, sudahnya duk bertenggek kat kita.
cemana nak buat keje tuh? 
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Comment by alohamolly on 13 January 2010:
Nice sharing!
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