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Re:Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? by QuantumGravy on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:41AM (#13820505)
In my experience, no, kids that young do not understand that. Furthermore, if you have the door closed for the length of a conference call with a child that young, I'd expect there to be another adult (or responsible elder sibling) there in the first place, such that the burden of not bothering you was never on the child.

If that can't be arranged, you reschedule the call.

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Re:Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? by JackFr on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:55AM (#13820605)
If you have 2 children 0-5 with you all day, and no other responsible adult around, you are not working from home. You are getting some work done while you watch your kids.
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Re:Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? by randlet on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @11:16AM (#13821219)
Sorry, I thought it would be obvious that there was another adult looking after the kids. It's not really possible to work from home and look after kids at the same time obviously. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on whether they understand/can follow simple instructions. It's never been a problem with my kids.
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Re:Ask HN: Developers with kids, how do you skill up? by QuantumGravy on Thursday March 09, 2017 @10:35AM (#13829942)
That is reassuring then. Not convinced their ability to follow simple instructions should even be a factor, though. Kids at that age lack the judgement to know when some rules should be broken.
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