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Class 9 son wants my work-from-home desk every evening. Who gets the quiet room?

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I work from home and the small bedroom is my office: desk, door, a decent chair. Since class 9 started, my son has decided it's the only place in the flat he can concentrate, roughly 7 to 9 every evening. His first formative marks were fine, so I can't argue it isn't working. The trouble is my work calls start at 8 on Mondays and Thursdays. Right now I take them from the dining table, with the TV on mute and the pressure cooker going off behind me. My partner thinks I should just give him the room. He's in class 9, I'm a grown man, I own headphones. Did any of you hand your space over to a teenager? Did you ever get it back?

4 comments

  • coral_fern_4973

    What does your evening look like at 8.30? If the calls are on fixed nights, split by time rather than by room. Our eldest took over my study last year, and what worked was a timetable on the door: hers till 8 on my call days, all evening on the others. She grumbled, then started saving the hard subjects for the free nights.

  • silver_moon_6188

    Ours is in class 6 and still wants to be in the hall with everyone. If your son is asking for a door he can close, that may be the point as much as the desk. Where did he study before this term?

  • moss_paper_9136

    We gave our older one the desk and I moved to the dining table with headphones. Two years on, I still haven't got it back. On weekends he 'forgets' to leave it even when he's only watching cricket.

  • lemon_pebble_5221

    Class 4 here, and he still does homework at the dining table next to whoever is cooking. Can't picture him asking for a door yet. If a class 9 boy wants a quiet room to study in, I'm not sure that's the battle I'd pick.

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