photo by C.P Storm
Hey, it's time for my monthly column at Writer Unboxed! Go take a look at The Hack’s Guide to Writing while the Kids are at Home. I discuss how to meet your deadlines while being at least a halfway decent parent, mostly.
Hire them as assistants. Have your kids take care of your other household tasks so you can focus on your book. Make them do dinner, laundry, cleaning, all that stuff. Since you’re technically one of their teachers now, this can count as an unpaid internship. You may find yourself with a brand new job: full-time manager of a poorly trained workforce. Or, you can learn to live with eating cereal for dinner, which will be useful as a weight-loss strategy since their laundry efforts shrunk your favorite shirt.