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I'm wondering where your teens work and how they have their books, etc. organized. It looks like all my 13 yo's school stuff has outgrown the bin we've always kept it in. Now that we're moving, I'm thinking about how to set things up better for him. To this point, he usually works at the dining room table, so I'm not sure if he'd like a desk... but definitely we need a better way of keeping track of all the books, reference materials, notebooks, etc.
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I'm all ears. My teenage boy is a mess when it comes to organizing his stuff---leaves it everywhere, even though he has shelves of his own. He mainly likes to work sitting on the couch, so desks go totally unused except to pile stuff on. I am over it and really want to get him organized, but not sure what the best arrangement is. Anyway, glad you asked and eager to hear ideas.
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This may sound strange, but we're getting our rising 9th grade daughter a cubicle and setting her up with a little office. My dh got some used cubicles for his office and they were so cheap! Although it won't be so big, it will look something like this. I'm not sure how much work she will do there  , but it will be her space where all of her high school stuff will be. She'll have the hidden shelving above the desk, plus lots of wall space to tack her schedule, notes, or whatever else she might like. She'll hopefully have a computer to herself there as well.
If we can swing it, we'll get a second one because before long we'll have two high schoolers and we'll never have more than two at a time. I'm a little nervous about the high school years and feel strongly that those kiddos have their own workspace--with lots of privacy from the littles. Dd14's main complaint about homeschooling is noise and distractions, so this will hopefully alleviate some of that.
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My son has an official school desk in his room...he has nearly enough room under the top to put all of his personal books. He likes this as it is HIS and "no brothers allowed" He can be in his room with the door shut and get some quiet that way as he is at the age where he needs it. He keeps most texts lined up on a shelf in the dining room **(see below)
He has a small room that he shares and we had just enough inches to squeeze this in there...it suits him well.
My teen girls just take their bins with them up to the top bunks and pull up the ladders  They have bins for notebooks and such and a shelf of books to go through that are lined up in the 'school room' aka dining room** so they are accessible for anyone else that needs to be reading it (we have 3 kids using some of the same books for teen learning) I point to this shelf and say "here is your school-work"...at least they are parked initially in the right place...
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I was going to suggest shelves?? and then Theresa's experience made me laugh, we still have to follow through on getting our son's to return their books.
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Well... I was looking at Jen's learning spaces post for this year, and noticing how she organized her older kids' work on both a shelf and a basket, with a work table right below the wall shelf. Right now my ds has a bin for textbooks in the kitchen and a canvas bin of not-textbooks on the couch where he likes to read. He *does* put stuff back in both of these places, but the textbooks and notebooks in the bin fall all over the place and any softcovers get massacred by the end of the year. This year he wants to start ancient Greek (Attic, which is apparently the more difficult variety -- of course  ) and according to the Latin-Centered Curriculum, he'll need a Greek dictionary and a Greek grammar in addition to his textbook and workbook and notebook... and then we're still doing Latin, which is expanding to include more books... and I *think* he is still working on Old English and...
Aaaaaah! That's just languages!!!! 
(And no, I do not know what I am getting myself into here. Over my head, that pretty much sums it up.)
Anyway... I'm not sure he would put books back on a shelf (neatly?? Dare I hope???) either. But, gosh, it sure seems like he's going to need a whole bookcase!!
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Angel wrote:
Well... I was looking at Jen's learning spaces post for this year, and noticing how she organized her older kids' work on both a shelf and a basket, with a work table right below the wall shelf. Right now my ds has a bin for textbooks in the kitchen and a canvas bin of not-textbooks on the couch where he likes to read. He *does* put stuff back in both of these places, but the textbooks and notebooks in the bin fall all over the place and any softcovers get massacred by the end of the year.
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What about laminating the outside of the paperback covers to make them last longer? You could even use clear contact for that....
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