If you’re WFH/Children at home, are you following a routine?

[FredaFrogspawn]

Have you agreed a routine at home? Just DH and I here - we have drawn up a rough Monday to Friday timetable to include downtime, exercise and obviously work time at separate work stations. ( We set them up yesterday, in separate rooms).

It’s giving me a small but good sense of having some control over events.

Yes. We’ve been working from home and home schooling for a week and have tried out different time tables. Not necessarily the same fixed time every day but allocated time for work sessions, exercise, activities. Weekends are still weekends - I get up at 6 in the week and work early but the weekends are long lies and a few drinks and movies, etc. Personally, I would go crazy without this structure.

I'm going to make one this weekend with pictures (DS is 3). DH is wfh but luckily I'm on mat leave:

If it helps anyone its going to be:
breakfast
washed and dressed
morning exercise (either walk/scoot to local fields or indoor)
snack
free play
lunch
quiet time - tv/ipad
nursery style activity (eg maths, mark making, crafts)
snack
free play
dinner

Yes, I have a timetable for dc and one for me. This week I'm not beating myself for feeling helpless and hopeless (and drinking far too much wine!) but from Monday I need to get back into some sort of routine.
I've let my employer know the hours I won't be available so I can go for a run each day in peace and this weekend we're making lists of fun things to do so every time I hear 'mummy I'm BORED' I can direct them straight to the list.

DD isn’t at school yet (nearly 3) but usually would have been at preschool twice a week. I only work part time anyway, but currently off as pregnant and an NHS nurse until they decide what to do with us. DH is now wfh, which he has never done before. He has set up an office in our garden shed (bloody freezing!) and we’ve had to be clear to DD we can’t keep disturbing him (hard for her, as he is so much fun!)

We’ve tried to make a routine of all having breakfast together, then he goes to ‘work’. We can have a tea break together mid morning, lunch together, and then he needs to work until he comes ‘home’.

It’s hard as I’m socially isolating due to pregnancy, so we can’t go out anywhere either (we do walk to feed the ducks or the little park near us) but realistically, we are home / in the garden for most of the day.

My day is scheduled much like Camomila’s. DP is working from home upstairs, I’m a nurse and so will be working two days a week. On the days where DS and DP are at home I imagine it will all go to pot and DS will watch a lot of telly. But hey ho, needs must.

Yes we will be from Monday. We aren't sure what yet, that's going to be one of the first things to be decided on Monday!

Joe Wicks (the Body Coach) is doing PE lessons live on his you tube channel at 9am Mon-Fri (30 minutes) so we will do that each day. Steve Backshall is doing a Facebook/Insta live at 1pm on Wednesday answering questions about animals, so we'll probably do that too.

Definitely here with a teen who would stay in bed and not be very productive if left to her own devices.

Yes, and it's been helpful in terms of DS1 not running out of activities/screen time by 1pm and becoming intolerable. I find he becomes hyper/aggressive if he has too much screen time so I want to avoid the unlimited screens route.

Wake up time 7-9am (breakfast, screens, lolling around)

9-12 school time (no screens)

11-2 DS2's nap/quiet time (screens allowed)/lunch break for everyone

2-4 afternoon activity time (generally something creative)

4pm - DS2 tea

4.30-5.30 walk (into woods no person contact)

5.30-7 tea/bath/screens/zombie time

DS2 bedtime

If I'm still awake I might read with DS1.

Yes, we’re poorly at the moment but when we’re better the plan is

Breakfast
Yoga (we do cosmic kids yoga from YouTube)
Story and song time
Physical activity/outside play
Free play
Lunch
Nap
Mark making/sensory activity (gives me time to set something up while she’s napping)
Snack
Free play/movie time (definitely investing in Disney+ when it gets released)
Dinner

I haven’t scheduled times for activities because a 2 year olds attention span is an ever changing beast and sometimes she’ll have 45 mins of stories and sometimes she’ll have 5. Meals and nap are roughly the same times each day but the rest is flexible

In theory yes! It’s a mixture of work, fun, fresh air and exercise! I’m going to do a lot of my wfh at weekends and evenings so I can spend more time with the dc during the day. I have 2 teenagers and a younger son. We are doing an exercise dvd every other day which is hilarious. DH is a key worker so carrying on as normal. I’m a key worker too but my employer has been fab and I’m now based pretty much at home indefinitely.

Some great plans. I like the idea of a visual timetable for little ones. Will suggest to ds for my dgc.