a Quiet Place to Study

[digitS']

Don't let school kids tell you that they can do their homework in front of the teevee (or while they are playing video games ).

When I was a high school kid, I had a junior year history class where the teacher gave us a 50 minute lecture every day. He dressed in a suit and - I thought I was in college! None of my immediate family had been to college. I was fortunate to have some friends whose parents were college professors. That helped give me a little broader perspective.

What also helped was that history teacher and . . . a good, quiet place to study.

My parents bought a camp trailer that year. It sat unused in the driveway thru the winter. Unused, except by me . I'd spend hours there with my school work! I felt very collegiate ! IT HELPED!

You know how I like looking at cabins, etc . I came across this (link) and thought, Wow! Not only is that really cute but it would be so great as a gift to a high school student! Make some rules - no visitors after dinner . . . lock the kid out of it if he or she isn't getting the homework done . . . that oughta teach 'em to do their work ! . . no wait, that might be counterproductive .

Steve

 

[so lucky]

I read somewhere that girls are even more distractable by noise than boys are. :/
Maybe rather than complete silence to study, some classical music in the background. It's supposed to make you smarter, anyway!

 

[bobm]

Just where can one put a structure such as is pictured when one has to contend with HOA's., Condos, Apartments, fire rules and regulations, setback regulations, building codes, etc. in most large and small towns. Heck, some localities one can't even park a small trailer or a RV in one's own property.

 

[Collector]

I need one of those, The kids can have the house LOL...

 

[canesisters]

???
What home has kids who don't have bedrooms??? Or a kitchen???
Why do kids need a separate building to do their homework? Is their home so chaotic that there is not a single quiet space anywhere? Are their families not able to alter their activities to accommodate them?
When I was little and shared a room with my sister, I was constantly being sent outside so she could finish her homework. When I got a little older and had homework of my own, I was at the kitchen table (TV in the living room off) with it until I finished or it was dinner time. My sister was still in the bed room doing hers. A little later when we had our own bedrooms we did our homework in our rooms - and there had better not be any music of sounds of goofing off coming out till we were done.

 

[thistlebloom]

I need one of those, The kids can have the house LOL...

Haha Collector! That's funny!

 

[seedcorn]

???
What home has kids who don't have bedrooms??? Or a kitchen???
Why do kids need a separate building to do their homework? Is their home so chaotic that there is not a single quiet space anywhere? Are their families not able to alter their activities to accommodate them?
When I was little and shared a room with my sister, I was constantly being sent outside so she could finish her homework. When I got a little older and had homework of my own, I was at the kitchen table (TV in the living room off) with it until I finished or it was dinner time. My sister was still in the bed room doing hers. A little later when we had our own bedrooms we did our homework in our rooms - and there had better not be any music of sounds of goofing off coming out till we were done.

Oh, the inhumanity! Making someone do their work without TV or music? Child cruelty. I'm sure you can find a lawyer to sue your parents!

 

[digitS']

???
What home has kids who don't have bedrooms??? . . .

Well, this high school junior hanging out in the little Terry camp trailer had just had his brother turn up in his bedroom. After an absence of several years of military service big DB was back home and working. He'd be up at 3am and asleep early. There was no way that little brother was going to turn him out of the bedroom so he could do his homework in there.

We had recently left the farm. The big old farmhouse had been exchanged for a "modern" home in the suburbs. You know, one of those flat roofed, 8' ceiling houses with a dining area in the kitchen and Dad around the corner with his incessant TV watching. It had "picture" windows! I thought the only reason a window couldn't be opened would be if it had been painted shut! There it stood, an average 1950's house with two bedrooms and about 800 square feet of floor.

I felt very lucky to be able to escape to the trailer.

Steve

 

[canesisters]

???
What home has kids who don't have bedrooms??? Or a kitchen???
Why do kids need a separate building to do their homework? Is their home so chaotic that there is not a single quiet space anywhere? Are their families not able to alter their activities to accommodate them?
When I was little and shared a room with my sister, I was constantly being sent outside so she could finish her homework. When I got a little older and had homework of my own, I was at the kitchen table (TV in the living room off) with it until I finished or it was dinner time. My sister was still in the bed room doing hers. A little later when we had our own bedrooms we did our homework in our rooms - and there had better not be any music of sounds of goofing off coming out till we were done.

Oh, the inhumanity! Making someone do their work without TV or music? Child cruelty. I'm sure you can find a lawyer to sue your parents!

Sue them???? Never! A little more 'child cruelty' would probably have improved my grades.

 

[so lucky]

And then there are parents who aren't really involved enough in their kids' lives to care that they need a quiet place to do homework. Yes, I have seen it quite a bit. Parents' needs of watching those "R" rated, violence-filled movies (with surround-sound) in the evening trumps kids' needs of quiet for study and sleep.
I firmly believe that prospective parents should have to take a competency test. I include myself in this. I should have been slapped silly for some of the stuff I neglected to do for my kids when they were little. :/