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[quote=Anonymous]I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how this is happening as often as it is. Where is your AP? And where is your office in relation to the rest of the house? If it is on the same floor as the kids, try to block off the area. But I would focus more on two things: 1) making sure your AP is with your children all the time and 2) getting them on a schedule that gets them out of the house more.

Our kids are 3 and 5 and I work from home three days a week. I have my desk in our guest bedroom upstairs so the only time the kids are upstairs is when they go to the bathroom. Yes, they have poked their head in to say hi, but I started to put a big homemade stop sign on the closed door and said they were not allowed to knock or come in if that sign was up.

While our kids are now in part time preschool and our AP had her own car, this wasn't always the case. When they were younger and the AP didn't have a car, they still went out of the house for a good portion of the day for rec classes, story hour, park time and play dates. They would  come home for naps and sometimes lunch.

My one funny work from home story - I had to put a national call that I was hosting with about 30 people on hold because the baby was crying in her bed (we were trying to sleep train) to tell my AP to please go pick her up!!!. :) things happen and people understand. [/quote]

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