Every parent knows the struggle of keeping their kids focused on doing tasks — most especially their school works or even the simple tasks that are given to them at home. The environment surrounding them plays a huge factor in squeezing out their creative juices, making them productive, and determining their overall mood. Hence, it is essential to invest time and effort to personalize their home workspace. 

Given this dilemma, this article is catered to give parents some tips on how they can increase their children’s concentration and productivity levels! Fret not, because these tips are all as easy to remember as the ABCs! 

Finding the perfect workspace for your child 

Everyone has their own taste when it comes to designing their working environments. Through using the ABCs as acronyms, presented below are fun and easy tips to teach your children on how they can achieve utmost productivity in the comfort of their home workspaces!

1. Add Room Scents!

Aromatherapy can help reduce stress while working.  It is proven to calm anxiety, improve your mood, and boost your mental functionality. Whenever you need to work on something tedious and you have to sit down for hours in front of the screen, blast off some scents to relieve yourself from the stress. Adding scented candles, essential oils, or dried flowers inside your room can give you a pop of productivity in no time!

TIP: Lavender scents are effective to refresh your mind. It can also make your room feel and smell really good, too!

2. Bring in plants!

Decorating your child’s work from home workspace with indoor plants can radiate relaxation and refreshment. Aside from helping them achieve their desired aesthetic, plants also help clean the air circulating inside their home workspace, thus, improving attentiveness, focus, and creativity.

TIP: Low maintenance plants such as Aloe Vera are best for home workspaces as they only require minimal water and sunlight to thrive.

3. Clean the Clutter

An organized workspace reflects an organized mind. Having a mess-free home office workspace helps keep your focus and heightens your mental functionality. Incorporating the importance of cleanliness gives children a sense of responsibility to always clean up their mess and keep their work area tidy. Cable management, for instance, keeps wires from tangling by using cable organizers. Mini vacuum cleaners are also efficient in cleaning hard-to-reach areas such as keyboard gaps and table edges. 

4. Decide on Your Room Color

Color affects mood. It is important to discuss with your children how they want their room to be decorated to ensure that they will constantly feel comfortable, relaxed, and productive all throughout. 

TIP: If they have a small workspace, try convincing them to paint their room with light colors such as white, off-white, or pastel tones. This will make it appear more spacious. In addition, rooms with lighter colors can create a brighter workspace, saving your family from consuming electricity!

5. Eliminate Distractions

The presence of distracting noises are hard to avoid especially in a small workspace. Hence, it is good to invest in good noise-canceling earphones in order to block distracting sounds. Given that everyone has different preferences when it comes to sound, observe where your child finds more comfort, in order to cater to their productivity needs!

TIP: For those children who work well with white noise, you may introduce them to Coffivity sounds to help them concentrate on their tasks.

6. Find the Right Lighting

Having a good source of lighting radiates a positive mood in your environment. Placing your child’s desk near where natural light comes in will make you feel more awake and focused. It will also give you a sense of connection with nature, making you feel more relaxed and calm. In the case where natural light does not penetrate well inside your area,  you may also opt to put desk lamps in your workspace to achieve a well-lit area.

7. Get an Extension cord

Different kinds of gadgets such as laptops, cellphones, headphones, and speakers may be present in your child’s home office workspace. Given that these gadgets require electricity to function, it is important to provide their workspace with a heavy-duty extension cord for convenience and to keep all of their devices in place.

8. Have Yourself an Ergonomic Workspace!

As parents, your child’s comfort should be one of your utmost priorities. Your children’s work from home workspaces must provide them convenience in order to maximize productivity.  Investing in ergonomic equipment such as office chairs, monitor risers, laptop stands, and wireless mice can help improve their posture, reduce muscle strain, and provide optimal comfort. 

Productive Workspaces Make Children Hit Aces!

Introducing ways on how to establish productive environments to children at an early age will help them develop a keen sense of organization, management, and responsibility. At the same time, it is also important to let them independently explore what works best for their concentration while still guiding them on a minimal level.

In addition, tell your children that ergonomics should always be above aesthetics. Going otherwise will defeat the purpose of revamping your child’s workspaces. This is to achieve their desired environment without compromising their comfort and physical ability to do work. 

Developing productive habits could help shape a person’s character. The eight (8) ABC’s of productivity tips will surely guide you, as supportive parents, on how to explore your child’s potential in the comfort of their own home workspace!

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