Where in the house do your kids do their homework?

[Anonymous]

We are refreshing a lot of our furniture and trying to figure out best space for our soon-to-be middle schoolers to do homework. There are some loft with desk options that look great in theory but I’m skeptical my kids would actually sit underneath their bed at a tiny desk and work.

Where do your kids actually do their work? In their bedrooms, at the kitchen table?

[Anonymous]

My fifth grader does hers at a desk we set up in our room. She needs closer monitoring to stay on task than her older sister does.

Her older sis (HS sophomore) does hers sitting on the floor of her bedroom!

[Anonymous]

Dining room table. I don't like the idea of working in the bedroom: the bedroom is for sleeping.

[Anonymous]

Kitchen table for writing work. Living room for reading tasks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My fifth grader does hers at a desk we set up in our room. She needs closer monitoring to stay on task than her older sister does.

Her older sis (HS sophomore) does hers sitting on the floor of her bedroom!

Funny, I think I did the same as your daughter!

I’m also considering that my kids will need closer monitoring. Good idea to set up a desk in your room so it’s more of a permanent work space.

[Anonymous]

Kitchen table. But frankly, my public school “honors” class kids have practically no homework. My sophomore finally has a tiny bit in her AP classes and I expect will have more next year.

[Anonymous]

Our middle schooler has a desk in her room under a loft bed that she never ever uses. She also has a small desk in our living room, which she also rarely uses. She mostly does her homework at the kitchen table or on the couch.

[Anonymous]

Kitchen table mostly, sometimes family room couch or dining room table.

During Covid we didn’t let them hide out in their rooms to do school/homework and the habit of not doing HW in bedrooms has stuck.

[Anonymous]

Dining table. I wish we had figured out a different space because it’s a hot mess, full of stuff she uses for her projects and such.

[Anonymous]

We have two dining tables - one for homework and one for actual dining. 6th and 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

My middle schooler likes her bedroom desk, and my high schooler likes the dining table

[Anonymous]

In Elementary School it was the dining room but after that, their desk in their bedroom.

[Anonymous]

All over the house- kitchen island, living room chair, living room floor, dining room table, bed, desk, DH’s office, etc.

[Anonymous]

At a desk in her room.

[Anonymous]

7th grader - kitchen island or sitting on couch (most homework is on school laptop, not paper). Sometimes in bedroom sitting in bed. I doubt she’d use a desk if we got one.