049: Arit Amana

Published: July 22, 2020, 9 a.m.

Parent Driven Development Episode 049: Arit Amana (https://twitter.com/AritAmana) 01:50 Welcome, Arit! Software engineer Mother of two, 8 and 3 years-old Background in public health 02:50 Panel check-in Pandemic times Adjustment for the kids, work and home life Stress level through the roof 06:20 Childcare Responder Duty while WFH The younger the child, the more work required for the parent Calendar essential (https://amzn.to/30V9sKz) for parent and kids Animal crossing (https://amzn.to/3hE5EEa) is the new obsession and a MUST 18:35 Arit jumps into a new role - Dev Community Open source coding Async communication style Flexible during the day with her youngest child Arit’s older son helps by taking care of his school work on his own 23:45 Work-life boundaries Allison works few weeks on, to take a day or two off 24:55 Genius / Fail moments Arit has success by taking the kids out for a walk after work that get her youngest sleeping through the night #genius Kwu’s daughter has some spit up discovered on her crib sheets post nap, unsure of what happened.. #geniusfail Chris and his wife are both working longer even though they are not commuting to work and dinner keeps getting pushed back later and later.. 10p late #genius because everyone is aligned even though hours aren’t typical Allison has a win by sharing photo journalism with her five-year-old son and keeps him occupied while also sharing some solid knowledge. ### How can I support the podcast? Please follow us @parentdrivendev (https://twitter.com/parentdrivendev) on Twitter or email us at panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com (mailto:panel@parentdrivendevelopment.com). Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com (https://parentdrivendevelopment.com). Support us via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/parentdrivendev) and get access to our our Slack Community! *As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. Panel Allison (https://twitter.com/allie_p) KWu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl) Arit (https://twitter.com/AritAmana) Chris Sexton (https://twitter.com/crsexton)