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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why can’t you slowly adapt the room? 
We have a spare bedroom that was the playroom.  during Covid ( 2nd thru 3rd) it transitioned into a homeschool space/art space. The shelving is the same and the table chairs have stayed the same. 
Now DD is in MS there is a large screen TB on the wall and her switch is hooked up in there. She still has art stuff, legos etc on the shelves though. [/quote]

This is the right approach. We don't have a separate room but more of a play area, and we just slowly over time purged some of the younger kid toys, replaced a preschool-height play table/chairs with a desk, added more older-kid art stuff, etc. It took surprisingly long for kids to let go of certain items, like the play kitchen and certain board games I associate with younger kids, so we let them hang on until they really seemed ready.

I am someone who hates mess and love organization/tidying, so this is an area in which I had to manage my own instincts, which were to purge everything all at once and transition to a different kind of space. But playing is really good for kids and they don't get to do it enough at school, so I forced myself to deal with the fact that for a time, the play area was kind of overstuffed with a broad range of toys, including some that were not getting a ton of action but were still wanted. That time only lasts a year or two and then eventually your kids are more interested in other things. Younger elementary age kids don't have any or much homework, so you really don't need a study space until upper elementary (we used the kitchen table for homework basically until middle school anyway -- it's better for homework that you need to supervise, which is most elementary age homework).[/quote]

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