191: Karen Aronian—Working At Home Now? How To Reinvent Your House

<p style="text-align: center;"><span style= "font-size: 24px;"><strong>Learn how to "see" the space in your house differently</strong></span></p> <p>In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been watching so many friends, families and colleagues trying to figure out how to organize their homes for themselves and their children. We invited Dr. Karen Aronian to join us for this podcast focused on how to think about space through a fresh lens. As you will hear, she talks about pausing for a moment and looking at your home as if it was a learning center, which it really is. If ever there was a time to listen in, now is it. Enjoy.<span style= "font-size: 20px;"><strong><img class="mce-hs-more" style= "height: 20px !important;" src= "data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" data-mce-placeholder="" /></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 20px;"><strong><img style= "width: 155px; float: left; margin: 7px 18px 0px 0px;" src= "https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/398462/Karen%20Aronian-square-1.png" alt="Karen Aronian-square-1" width="155" />For years, you have been training (or teaching) your kids in your home </strong></span></p> <p>As our children’s first teachers, we encourage and guide their early development in our everyday decisions and the environments in which we live. Most of us just never thought about it like we must think about it now. If you are a home-schooling parent, you have thought about it carefully, but this is not home-schooling time. It is a time for distance learning. And, that means more learning needs to happen than just what is coming from your child's teacher. Ready or not, we have to step up and be educators as well as parents. In this podcast, Karen shows us how.</p> <p style="font-size: 20px;"><strong>Some of the areas Karen asks you to consider:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Could your kitchen morph into an experiment center and training site where chemistry can be learned and cooking can be carried out?</li> <li>Kids learn in different ways — some verbal,