I don’t think that’s a very good idea. If the mommy has a 3 year old, it gets almost impossible to host an online training session from home with her child sitting on her lap. Especially if it is her first time!
Well, this is exactly what happened with me. My employer asked me to give online training to new writers who were going to join his team. I told him it is not a very good idea but he said this is how I will learn. I agreed. I decided to just put my fears away and go ahead with it. What worse things could happen? My son could decide to start crying, could sit on my lap and start typing on the keyboard, could press the power button and switch off the laptop, or could even want to go potty when I am in the midst of the training. Believe me these all are some very bad things that could happen.
Anyway, I put my fears aside, got a nice pair of headset, and invited all the trainees to the training session. I organized it on Wednesday at 4:30 pm because I thought Rafay would be taking a nap at that time. Little did I know that he would choose to wake up exactly the moment I started training. Out of panic, I cancelled the training session and blamed the software, which I was using. I said there were some problems with the software and I have to sort it out first.
Then, I organized it the next day on Thursday at 4 pm, half an hour earlier than before. Now, my son must have sensed something because this time he woke up half an hour earlier. I panicked again but this time I could not give any excuse because the software was working just fine and I was afraid of losing the writers. Only two writers out of four turned up that day but I decided to start it anyway. Half past the training session, my son felt the need to go to the bathroom. He first told me in low voice. I acknowledged him. Then he decided to say it in my mic that he wanted to go potty. Now, that was the worst thing that could happen. I apologized my trainees and told them about my little sea monkey. Such nice people they were, they said it is perfectly fine. Anyway, I had to cancel the training before the presentation was complete.
My point is, it is not a very good idea to have mommies host an online training session from home.
Do you agree?
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