Changes you can make at home

- [Narrator] How about some changes you might make at home? Maybe your stress is coming from trying to work in a space where your partner is also working. Your kids are at home and your pet is restless. Chaos is everywhere. You can't just pick up and go somewhere else, but you can make small changes so your home environment works better for you. Alert your workplace team that you're in a home with kids and pets so distractions may be out of your control. Create a shared schedule with your partner to ensure all essential tasks, work, child or elder care, personal health and hygiene are covered and accounted for, find creative ways to occupy younger children during important meetings, make sure older children understand that you expect them not to interrupt you while you're working and stop following super parents on social media. Those feeds are curated to capture only their most super moments. Note that there are different categories and types of changes on these lists. Some, like taking items off your to-do list or creating a shared schedule with your partner, change your actual circumstances. Others, like setting an expectation with your colleagues that dogs will bark and kids will fight, give you permission to experience less stress without changing the circumstance. Think broadly about all the different ways change might look for you given your unique situation.