Hybrid soft play cafe?

I can’t work when my kid is in the same room, never mind 20 screaming kids, even when I’m just doing boring admin or social media work. Maybe just advertise it as having WiFi so the people that do need to work know there’s access to it?

You're still responsible for your kids in a soft play and still need to be keeping an eye on them, I don't think you could realistically work and do this without neglecting either the child or your work.

I don’t believe you can properly work your job whilst looking after your children x

I'm planning on working from home at least 2 days a week. My jobs data, so it's a job I can do while doing other things because at work that's what I do. I'm inputting data, answering the phones and guiding people through the system, or booking them an appointment or triarging them to the help line ontop of doing letters, managing the programme for the letters if somethings gone wrong, pulling reports and arranging them to make it easier for the business manager. While also watching YouTube and listening to a book. And helping people who walk in along with my colleagues as our systems not the easiest. My brain need chaos to work. I will find a distraction if I don't have multipul ones. Everyone else finds my way of working utterly mad, but I'm good at my job and they don't care what I do if it means I can work. I've neve not worked in chaos, silence and calm isn't what I'm used to. I wouldn't go soft play though, you have to be responsible for your child there. At home she has lots to play with

Listening to a book or having something on in the background is different to looking after kids though in my opinion. Depending on the age of your children they pretty much need your attention most of the time and you need to get food for them, change nappies, if there are 2 make sure they aren’t arguing. What if you’re on a call and they’re screaming for you. Children need proper focus, personally I couldn’t do it, but I also work in data and attention to detail is so important so I really need to concentrate, I can have music on depending what I’m doing but I don’t ideally love having someone asking me questions and chatting lots whilst I’m concentrating on it!

This sounds great in theory but in practice, I think it would be hell. It’s already annoying when there is one child running around soft play knocking kids over and no parent in sight, and here that would actively be encouraged? Naaaaahh

My eldest if anything is more needy at soft play. At home she can play or get snacks as she pleases. No chance I’d get anything done at a cafe or at home with the kids around

This doesn’t sound safe, young children need to be supervised at all times and if parents are working then they aren’t doing that.

I think it’d put off other mums too, like I know I wouldn’t go to a soft play where it’s guaranteed the parents don’t have their attention on their children. It’s bad enough now without mums working

Nope unless there was paid staff to actively watch the children you’d still need to keep a close eye your child and I wouldn’t be able to focus

Soft play nowadays is very expensive! Imagine having to go there twice or three times a week, pay for parking and their expensive nuggets and chips and snacks and drinks because of course to they will see the cafe and other mums and kids queuing and what about those little moving character cars they have in the corner that you have tap your card with and your baby refuses to move from it, I can already see how that would work with my baby, plus he's at a stage where if he just fancies what another baby has in their hand he just wants it and cries when I intervene. I perfectly know that hybrid Idea would be a supervision nightmare and no work done. It's easier just to let baby annoy me at home 🫠 either way still find it hard to work, when baby decides he wants and snatched my laptop multiple times a day😕😭

I wouldn't get anything done. Unless it was the company I work for and my colleagues are there, I can't see that working.