15 Things Parents Who Work from Home With Teens Will Get

They Expect You to do Their Homework

When you're home all day your teens assume that you're going to help them with their homework, projects, essays, presentations, and studying. So, lucky for you, you're left trying to remember how to do long-division and frantically Googling what APA format is between Zoom calls. It's basically like you're working your full-time job and re-doing junior high.

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You've Become a Full-Time Personal Chef

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Even though your teen may have made their own breakfast and packed their own lunch pre-WFH, when now that you're at home more often you've become their full-time personal chef. Meaning, you're cooking breakfast, lunch, dinner, and preparing snacks.

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You Have No Internet Bandwidth

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With your teen simultaneously doing homework on their desktop computer, streaming Netflix on their laptop, and scrolling TikTok on their phone, that leaves little to no internet bandwidth for you to use for your work. That means you get laggy load times, video calls that break up, and even difficulties connecting to the internet. Not like you have a job to do, or anything.

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You Catch Them Filming TikToks

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You've scrolled through TikTok so you know it's pretty damn entertaining, so you can't really blame your teen for wanting to make their own content. But, every time you walk into a room that means you catch them filming some new dance routine or editing videos, rather than doing the things they really need to do (like homework, or taking out the rubbish like you asked them 7 times already!).

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They Yell For You From Every Room in the House

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Pre-WFH, if your teen needed you they'd text you. Now, no matter where they are in the house or what you're in the middle of, you're hearing"MOOOOOM!" or "DAAAAAAD!" screamed from the top of their lungs. And even though you'd assume it's something important, it's usually just them asking where the chips are or if they can borrow your car.

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Or Worse . . . They Don't Replace the Toilet Paper

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One of the best things about the bathroom at your office was that someone else always replaced the empty roll. But at home, your teen uses all the TP and just leaves the empty cardboard for someone else (ahem, you) to replace. Just what you need when you're doing everything else!

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