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AIBU to dread DH working from home with a toddler underfoot?

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headacheandtired · 18/03/2026 07:51

DH normally works in the office Tuesdays - Thursdays, or is visiting clients. He’s out of the house, anyway!

However, he’s torn a muscle and it’s been recommended he tries to avoid driving for a period of time, so he’s negotiated working from home during this period.

It’s so difficult. I’m dreading today and tomorrow a bit as we have a two year old and obviously she doesn’t really understand that daddy is working so can’t play in the garden with her etc so keeps trying to get to him and then getting upset and having a tantrum when she can’t. It’s pretty miserable to be honest. I’m just praying that he’s back in the office when the Easter holidays begin!

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Clefable · 18/03/2026 07:57

I think they just adapt. We’ve both worked from home (different shift patterns) with both kids from babyhood and it’s never been a real issue.

ValidPistachio · 18/03/2026 07:57

A man daft enough to post this about his wife would be torn to shreds, and rightly so.

MidnightPatrol · 18/03/2026 07:57

Can you go out for the day / most of the day?

EvangelineTheNightStar · 18/03/2026 07:56

Are you in the house all day ever with her? No going a walk, play park, groups, shops etc?
I’d go bonkers stuck in the house all day with my 2 yo and they’d be climbing the walls!

LemonFancy · 18/03/2026 07:55

My DH worked from home full time from when my eldest was born until my youngest was 5, so at one point I had 3 under 5 at home almost all of the time.
They soon get used to it. Just keep saying ‘daddy is working, he can play with you when he’s finished’.

headacheandtired · 18/03/2026 07:53

She can hear him! Smile It isn’t that he’s excessively loud, it’s just you can …

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sunsetsites · 18/03/2026 07:52

Does she have to see him? Surely he works with the door shut and she just assumes he’s out at work like normal?