In the face of so many school and business closures and so many employees urged to work from home, professionals are whipping out laptops and logging kitchen counter hours like never before.

And if you’re doing it with sweet superheroes shooting Nerf bullets at your MacBook Pro, let’s just be honest.

This ain’t no easy ride.

As a mama who worked from home for a publishing company for 13 years, most of them while attempting to simultaneously entertain superheroes who believe adult interaction is a curse word, I’ve been in those shoes.

THIS is what I learned, 100 percent through frequent, flailing-around failure, about playing Mama and Professional in one house in one hour.