Study Sanctuary
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🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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This episode is brought to you by Target. See how easy it is to get ready for school this year, with Target.
On this week’s bonus episode: Elizabeth and Jamilah discuss creating distraction-free study spaces at home, whether kids are finishing their homework or attending class online. But, with many parents also working from home, space is in demand. How can parents maximize their space by rethinking their home’s function?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Dad are Fighting, Slate's Parenting Podcast for Tuesday, August 11th, the Setting Up Your Child's Study Sanctuary Edition. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, contributor to Slate's Karen Feeding parenting column, and Mom to Naima, who is seven, and entering the second grade this year, |
| 0:22.8 | we live in Los Angeles, California. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. |
| 0:25.8 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch Goose. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry 8, Oliver 6, and Teddy 3, and I'm living in Navar, Florida. |
| 0:35.7 | On today's show, we're going to be discussing an issue that is of great importance and urgency to me, |
| 0:42.6 | which is how to set up a space at home that will help your kid focus on learning, |
| 0:47.2 | whether they'll be completing homework or attending all of their classes or the majority of their classes this coming fall online. |
| 0:55.7 | But before we get into that, |
| 1:00.7 | we're going to be doing triumphs and fails. And if you caught the first episode of our special bonus edition of Mom and Dad are Fighting, we're going to be either doing classic triumphs |
| 1:05.4 | and fails, meaning something that happened back when we were kids ourselves or maybe earlier |
| 1:09.6 | in our children's lives or something |
| 1:11.5 | more recent. So Elizabeth, let's start with you. Do you have a TBT triumph or fail today or do you |
| 1:17.6 | have something that just happened? So I have a fail and mine is thematically appropriate to our |
| 1:23.2 | discussion today. So I kind of joke that the reason I wanted to homeschool is like to set up a |
| 1:28.1 | homeschool room. That is not why I'm homeschooling. But I like had these visions of like I would have |
| 1:32.7 | all this beautiful stuff on the wall and we'd have this table and we'd like all gather together. |
| 1:36.1 | And so of course when we moved to Florida and moved into our Florida home, I like used what I think was like |
| 1:42.2 | supposed to be a dining room as this room and I did all of these |
| 1:45.4 | things. And then like we just never gathered there. Like it turned out like none of those things |
| 1:51.6 | were important. That is not how we used our space. And so that space has now been redone and by redone. |
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