Parents versus non-parents is the wrong productivity battle to fight

Perhaps this says more about the toxicity of Twitter than it does about juggling childcare and academic work. After being reasonable active on Twitter for several years, I have found the sheer nastiness on there too much and have not visited at all for a couple of months. I just do not want to spend my time in the company of hate-filled abusive people who set out to be deliberately hurtful to those with whom they disagree about whatever issue they feel strongly about. In the department where I work, there are two couples with young children and others who have youngsters and partners who work in other walks of life. Of the couples - by this I mean both parents are academics in the same department - one lot just get on with it, while the other lot complain continuously (but still get their work done!). Our university, meanwhile, reminds us that we are not 'working from home', we are doing our best to keep things going in difficult circumstances and shouldn't expect to maintain the same workload. A healthy attitude!