If you are a dad who works from home and having children around, I commend your efforts in keeping up with your daily routine. Because you are doing the work of both parents at the same time. Even if your kids' mom is around, as long as you work from home, you got your hands full for dealing with kids and house chores.
This can be even more tougher for single dads, raising their kids all by themselves and works from home. Your table is always full each day, along side juggling your jobs. You gets to clean the house, cook meals for the kids daily, ensure your kids safety, do school runs daily, and help them in their school assignments.
Alongside that, you still have to keep focus on your job amidst all the chaos from the kids. It may not even be a single job, but multiple online hustle that requires maximum focus. If you are in this group, I salute you for the wonderful job you are doing.
I can imagine myself who is not even a single dad and the stress I go through everyday to cope with my two younger daughters while working from home, because my wife is not always around. She is in charge of our small business while I do online work at home, and looking over the kids. Every day feels as if it were a battlefield, and I have to be mentally prepared to cope with the situation.
The whole day is me going through the children's routine; first of all, taking them to school in the morning, then going to pick them at school time, getting them lunch, assisting them in their schoolwork, it just seems to be a mad house. And you know kids, once they come with their school assignments, there's no amount of excuses you can give for not attending to them when they need you. They don't care whether you have an emergency or a deadline to meet, all they want is for you to attend to them, and you better do it for your own peace.
Sometimes it can be hard to keep them calm to allow me focus on what I am doing. Even when I tried giving them exercise from their school books as a trick to keep them busy, yet they will keep coming back to me asking questions about the exercise as if it was not an assignment for them to solve.
Yet, in all these I still managed to focus on what I am doing. What had helped to somewhat pacify them is when they watch their favorite anime on television. But if the power’s out, then it’s them and me battling it out in the house. One time, for example, they needed to sneak my phone to watch a movie because there was no power. Children are a bundle of chaos and humor.
I feel like running out of gas to keep up with them sometimes, and some days, I just cool off, stopping everything I have to do and have a long nap while they are away in school. This little adjustment helps a little bit to keep me energized to deal with whatever the kids might come up with when they returned from school.
You know, this thing can be really mental draining, and I keep thinking about it, how hard it would be for single dads, if it's this tough for me who still got my wife around doing her part. I guess it must be hell for them.
I have thought about employing a home teacher for the kids which could free me from their shenanigans for some hours which I can use for myself. But, my pocket isn't looking healthy and not smiling at me. One thing about home tutors is that they do not come everyday, just about twice in a week. It won't fix the issue entirely.
Even so, I must say that it is a delight and a fulfillment to have them around while working from home. Though they are still infants and can't reason like grown ups, they are the first I tell everything happening with me. They know when I am not happy and shows care and compassionate.
In all of these experiences, I see it as a learning process, and a reminder that I am building a legacy, a family, bond between father and daughters, and a life that truly matters.
To every father who works from home and having kids around like me, and doing all alone, looking after your kids, making meals, keeping the house and chasing your financial dreams with head high up, here is a congratulations for you. A better tomorrow is not negotiable. Keep your head high up and keep being a good dad to your kids.
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