I&#x27;ve been working from home for the last 7 years.<p>Interruptions suck and you don&#x27;t need to embrace them. You can perfectly have a dedicated time for your family as well as dedicated time for your job. It&#x27;s all about planning and ensuring that people around you understand your schedule.<p>You can still have 1 hour allocated time with your son during the day and you can be present, that doesn&#x27;t mean your son needs to interrupt you 5 random times within 3 hours. If you know when he comes home from school, by all means allocate that fixed 30 minutes or whatever to him, perfect.<p>There is pretty much no difference between allocating random time frames to people you love vs. allocating fixed times to people you love.<p>We all know from experiments, various sources and for many from personal experiences interruptions do hurt productivity, induce stress and generally bad.<p>Also, you can turn this around. Instead of being interrupted between your tasks (out of zone moments) just make rounds at the house, talk to your wife, enjoy a snack, take 15 minutes break. Then go back to hacking with a clear, recharged head.<p>So why sacrifice your focus&#x2F;productivity when you don&#x27;t have to?