Do you tell clients/customers you’re a parent running a business from home?

[viveksinghalindore]

Working from home as a parent can be amazing… until the school calls in the middle of a client meeting or a toddler walks into the background of a video call! I’m curious — do you share your ‘parent at home’ reality with your clients, or do you prefer to keep business and parenting completely separate?

Yes. I set an out of office for the summer hols that states I will take longer to get back to them than usual.

If you can’t supervise your children whilst working, different when they aren’t actually at home and someone is supervising them.

Yeah, that’s true — big difference between kids being home while you’re working and them being with someone else. For me, it’s those surprise situations (sick days, early pickups, school breaks) that really throw things off.