Been there OP, hang in there! Have DS clean out your junk drawer. Have him test all the pens/pencils and throw out the ones that don't work. That will buy you 10-15 min. Bonus if he can figure out a craft or make a monster/robot/creature with paper clips, bottle caps and string that's in there too.

Don't stop work and clean out closets. Have DS pull everything out of his closet. Guarantee he will find some old toy that was hiding or a "new" toy you had put away for another time. This is that time.

Siblings? Let DS pick something of theirs to play with! No one has to know.

Retired family members? Set DS up with them on FaceTime.

On-Demand movies and tv shows. Is he a kid who will do crafty things? I’ve found perler bead projects can hold my kids attention at that age.

Anonymous wrote:Use a combination of screens and quiet time when you really need to get work done. Otherwise, consider switching gears and doing stuff around the house... organizing a closet or something. You can do that and talk at the same time.

She's working, WAH! She should take a PTO day if she's actually going to be cleaning closets while hanging out with her chatty kid who also can't go to school because they can't talk.

Signed poster who is sickness to death of having to pull extra weight for CWs who "work from home" while taking care of the kids etc.

Anonymous wrote:Honesty I'd take him late to school and just tell the teacher he can't talk much the rest of the day.

Not if these blisters are infectious.

Honesty I'd take him late to school and just tell the teacher he can't talk much the rest of the day.

He can't talk to go to school, but he can talk to bother you? Send that child to school.

It’s hard for him to talk but he is chatty? What?

Anonymous wrote:Books!

OP Said:

I’m a WAHM. DS (7) is home from school today due to blisters that make it difficult for him to talk. Usually when he’s home it’s because he’s sick and so he will just sit and read but because he isn’t feeling bad he is chatty. I will let him plan Minecraft to get some of my work done, but what kinds of tasks can I accomplish when he is constantly distracting me? Even when I ask him not to distract me he forgets.

Any task that can take 10-15 minutes or is interruptible. Cleaning, laundry. 7 year old can learn to fold or read a book aloud while you do it (making it more fun for you if it’s good kid lit)

Books!

Use a combination of screens and quiet time when you really need to get work done. Otherwise, consider switching gears and doing stuff around the house... organizing a closet or something. You can do that and talk at the same time.

Does your DS have hand foot mouth?

Can't talk but feeling chatty? Maybe he needed to go to school! Screens for part of the day - this is the situation for them and spend time with him for the rest of it.

Take a sick day and clean the house together.

I’m a WAHM. DS (7) is home from school today due to blisters that make it difficult for him to talk. Usually when he’s home it’s because he’s sick and so he will just sit and read but because he isn’t feeling bad he is chatty. I will let him plan Minecraft to get some of my work done, but what kinds of tasks can I accomplish when he is constantly distracting me? Even when I ask him not to distract me he forgets.