A Week of Working From Home and Homeschooling as an Engineering Manager and a Mom

My honest recount of juggling and balancing my two most important responsibilities

Photo by Kevin Bhagat on Unsplash

There are so many resources out there on remote working and working from home (WFH). Likewise, there are so many tips and so much advice on homeschooling children. I’m no expert in either of those topics, but I decided to write this article to share my experience after a week of working from home and homeschooling my 7-year-old daughter, who’s in third grade at the moment.

I will structure this article using a popular retrospective format — the 4Ls: loved, learned, loathed, and longed for. The reason for using this 4Ls format is to highlight positives (loved and learned) as well as negatives (loathed and longed for). Because let’s face it, there are always goods and bads to a situation, no matter how optimistic or pessimistic a person is.

So without any further ado, my 4Ls.

4 Things I Loved About WFH and Homeschooling

1. I get to have an hour or two of quiet time in the morning, usually from 7 a.m.-9 a.m., without having to rush to get out of the house. I use this time to really set intentions and goals for the day — for my work, my daughter’s…