Study Sanctuary
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 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, |
| 0:07.0 | the Setting Up Your Child Studies Sanctuary Edition. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Jamila Lemieux, a writer, cultural critic, contributors to Slates |
| 0:15.6 | Parenting Parenting Column, and a mom to Naima who is seven and entering |
| 0:20.8 | 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 Home School and Family Travel blog, |
| 0:27.8 | Dutch, Dutch Goose. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm the mom to Three Little's, Henry Eight, Oliver Six, and Teddy Three, and I'm living in Navarro, |
| 0:35.8 | On today's show, we're going to be discussing an issue that is of great importance and |
| 0:41.1 | urgency to me, which is how to set up a space at home that will |
| 0:44.8 | help your kid focus on learning, whether they'll be completing homework or |
| 0:49.0 | attending all of their classes or the majority of their classes is coming fall online. But before we get into that, we're going to be doing |
| 0:56.4 | triumphs and fails and if you caught the first episode of our special bonus edition of |
| 1:01.6 | mom and dad are fighting, We are going to be either |
| 1:04.1 | doing classic triumphs and fails meaning something that happened back when we were |
| 1:08.0 | kids ourselves or maybe earlier in our children's lives or something more recent. So |
| 1:12.4 | Elizabeth let's start with you. Do you have a |
| 1:15.0 | TBT Triumph or fail today or do you have something that just happened? |
| 1:19.0 | So I have a fail and mine is |
| 1:21.0 | the mathematically appropriate to our discussion today. |
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