Desks- Yay or Nay - Page 2

[Marsupialmom]

Originally Posted by VisionaryMom

I would like to get a multi-purpose desk for DS, but I haven't yet. While they're at the ILs' house next week, it's something on my list.

DS & I have been doing some diagnostic-type work, and he's fine at the dining room table. DD is going to be joining us whenever it strikes her fancy, but I can see, as a PP said, that the table is a bit tall for her to be comfortable. She also eats on her knees. She prefers it that way, but she's a little too precarious when she's writing or coloring to be truly comfortable.

I don't associate desks with "industrialized school." If I were buying an exact replica of the desks we had when I was a kid, maybe I could, but heck, even the schools here use cooler, modern desks than when I was a kid! I do like the idea of a place that DS can keep his things organized, however, and *he* is an organizational fanatic. I can see him really wanting a desk.

I got my kids first desk and chair set free from a school.....some times frugality trumps industrialized look. LOL I also got a #@$%# of books from their for free. They were closing the school down and just tossing stuff. I got 3 out of print books, one I sold for $50. The other two I kept and want to keep for my kids. I didn't have them in rows and they didn't have to only sit there to do work.

Now that I work at home, I have had kids drag one of these desk close to my desk to be close. My dh decided to go to high school because they offer courses we could not. There was a couple of times this 6'3" kid drag an elementary size desk in work area to be close. Even though he loves his big desk in his room flexibility was

We have tried different clipboards and lap desk. My kids hate them.

[JessicaS]

I don't associate it with "industrialized schooling" but we certainly have our "that rear may not leave that chair until you have done x and y" days.

I am pretty rigid though.

Dd likes her desk. It is "her" space.

[EdnaMarie]

Don't homeschool, BUT I hope to get my kids standing desks for their homework, because I think that sitting on the floor encourages poor posture. Either a floor desk so they can sit cross-legged, or something else ergonomic. I have such poor posture from my lying-on-the-floor writing days! I have this dream of providing yoga balls and adjustable-height desks for my (still very small) children.

With my luck they'll both want to go to private school and have regular desks which they hunch over.

[rockportmama]

My MIL has used an old-fashioned school desk to homeschool my nephew, but she's firmly in the "school-at-home" camp. Now they're doing ABeka Video and using a small furniture style desk with a laptop/TV screen on it.

Mine are still very young, but we use the kitchen table or where ever we are when they ask questions or for a book. Our computer is in my rolltop desk, and one or both of them are at it enough that I'm looking into a cheepie laptop for them to use at the kitchen table so I can get my WAH work done.

DS is another one that probably wouldn't sit in his room by himself for anything.

I think I'll wait until they're big enough for a regular sized desk or they ask for a desk. Maybe by then we'll have room for one!

[lmonter]

I'm not going to aim for an official desk for each kid, but I do want to get another big flat desk/table like we already have (48"x30"). So we have a fair amount of space for all the kids to spread out with projects or 4 books at a time or whatever. Ironically, my table is a cannibalized teacher's desk from the elementary school I went to - my dad pulled off the metal apron and drawers and put on removable IKEA legs so it's super easy to move around. Now to find the local surplus sales and make a twin for it... Indestructible, I swear. Oh, and I want to make more stools to go with 'em, but that's another work in progress (apparently my dad and mom made the one I have out of an old metal drum, a wooden circle, padding, and finally-cracking vinyl...).

[zebra15]

Not really... right now DS has a desk that was in his room when we moved in here... he uses it for his laptop and math work when needed. More often he uses it to build lego creations or art projects. Most likely its piled high with cr@p and rendered totally useless.

Most of our unschooling is done around the house, outside, at the library, ...ya know... anywhere but at 'the desk'

In the past DS used a little tikes picnic table for his space. (age 4-6)

[phathui5]

My kids have desks in their room, not school type desks, but big wooden ones. They don't really use them for homeschooling though, more for their stuff.

[Kontessa]

We have old time school desks, one was my husbands as a child. We like them simply as a sure place to do schooling without having to take up table space. We are so far from the public school picture that I do not worry about the link between the two. Not like they are at them all that much anyway!

[MyFullHouse]

We have 4 usable desks in the house (and one buried in our "junk area"!)
One is built in to my dds' bunk beds, one is in ds's room, and two are antique school desks in the girls' room.

The kids like having them to claim as their private space. We mostly work at the dining room table or around the living room, but the desks come in handy when the distractions get to be too much.