About this Episode
Parent Driven Development
Episode 049: Arit Amana
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 for parent and kids
- Animal crossing 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.
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