[Prologue] We invite you to our first school district.

Part 1.
Living Room Environment: The First School District Made by Mom

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The living room is the first school district my child encounters.
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A 1,000 won Daiso box and a 10,000 won paper box
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Why I keep an expensive vase on my living room table
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You can have a TV in the living room!
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The role of the sofa is 'The Pied Piper'
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Living Room Study A-Z for Your Home Library
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The dining table is what determines the success or failure of living room parenting.

Part 2.
Living Room Study: Kids Take Another Challenge in the Living Room

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Choosing a Desk That Affects Your Child's Concentration
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What to leave on your desk and what not to leave on your desk
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How to store school supplies is immersive.
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The shortest train to send learning to long-term memory
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The Secret to Success for Harvard Graduates
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A child's living room study with two supporters
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Intersection of physical and psychological environments

Part 3.
Living Room Conversation: The kids wake up again in the living room.

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The only way to expand your child's world
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To the child who wants a camper van that he can't afford
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The decisive moment when deficiency turns into motivation
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Kim Lid Solution When Blaming Others
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Finding what you want to do among the things you don't want to do
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Mom, what do I do when I want to lie?

Part 4.
Living Room Infrastructure: A Helper to Complete Living Room Parenting

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The perfect living room childcare depends on the living room infrastructure.
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Bathroom: Equal Interior Design That Helps Children Become Self-Reliant
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Kitchen: Where the Real Study Begins
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Entryway: Storage interior that changes your mood every day
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Kids' Room: Visual Interior Design That Motivates You to Study
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Sleeping Room: A Separate Interior to Boost Your Child's Independence
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Laundry Room: A sense of accomplishment built with laundry

[Epilogue] Or, Mom is the expert in creating our child's own educational environment.
[Appendix 1] A list of living room childcare items to pull out when feeling lost
[Appendix 2] List of Board Games for Children's Rooms

No need to move the TV or sofa, start living room school today!
The study habits you develop in your living room before you turn 3rd grade will determine your study skills for the rest of your life!

Before puberty, it is a time when you still listen to your mother.
If you miss the timeliness of the living room before 3rd grade, you may lose your grades and distance yourself from your parents!

A few years ago, the family of actor Jang Hyun-seong, who sent his son to a foreign language high school, appeared on a TV program called 'Amazing Organization'.
The main reason the couple appeared on the show was that while their children are studying, they naturally need a space to be alone, but they were also worried about what the children would do after they closed the door and became disconnected from their children.
The solution presented at this time was a living room study.
Information was also provided that 74% of students admitted to the University of Tokyo chose the living room as their study place.
Perhaps many parents have the same concerns.
The living room is where most of the time we nag and fight with our children.
How should we change the living room to make it a space where children can study and read comfortably, rather than a space where we nag them about things like, "Read a book," "Stop looking at your phone," or "How many videos are you watching?"

“Living Room Parenting” (published in 2024 by Meriri Gip-i) defines the living room as the first school district in a child’s life.
Author Im Ga-eun, who created a buzz in her previous work, "Turn on the Hae-naem Switch and You'll Become a Child Who Does Well on Your Own," by introducing a parenting method for seven-year-old Ha-jun, who showers alone, folds laundry, and studies at dawn, selects the "living room" as a more effective school district than Gangnam School District 8 in this book.
The author's words resonate deeply in many ways.
As an elementary special education teacher who has worked with slow learners, I am convinced that academic achievement and habits are not just the preserve of children who are born smart.
He was the first to replace the school supply organizer after seeing that many students in the classroom were unable to concentrate for a long time after class started because they were looking for school supplies.
All I did was replace the organizer with a handle, and the kids who immediately placed the organizer on their desks before class started to focus without having to go in and out of their lockers.


The author argues that creating a study room can begin with simple environmental elements, like organizing organizer handles. There's no need to get rid of the TV or move the sofa.
Rather, when there is a TV and a sofa, children develop real self-control and learning skills, much like the marshmallow effect demonstrated.


The author says that if you are going to have a TV, choose a picture frame TV.
The idea is to display famous paintings or family photos on the TV during normal times and only use it to play videos that children want to see.
What if your TV isn't a framed TV? A simple solution is to put a TV cover on it.
The strategies chosen by the children who acquired two marshmallows were avoidance and elimination.
Rather than eating the marshmallow itself (and thus eliminating the TV), the solution is to shift your child's attention away from the marshmallow (using a picture frame TV or a cover) and toward other activities (reading a book or playing a board game). This approach transforms the TV from a temptation into an effective entertainment tool. Rather than raising a child who struggles to find a way to watch videos because there's no TV, the argument goes, a proper living room environment is one where the child doesn't feel compelled to watch even when there is one.
In four major chapters, the author guides us through how to make our living rooms into places for study, immersion, conversation, and self-direction.
This is how to make it the first school district in a child's life.

It's too late after the child closes the door and goes in!
You must start before the third grade, which is the optimal time for living room timeliness!

Living room timeliness is an expression coined by author Im Ga-eun, and refers to recognizing the importance of living room education and creating the optimal living room educational environment for children.
Just as it is important to raise a child in a 'good school district' rather than a school district that can be found anywhere, it means that it is important to establish a child's habits and growth in a 'good living room' rather than a living room that can be found anywhere.
The reason why living room timeliness is important is because children grow quickly.
The Maginot Line where children can accept their parents' instructions and discipline without resistance is the third grade of elementary school.
As children enter puberty in the fourth grade of elementary school, they begin to perceive parental discipline as nagging and begin to reject it.
The result of that rejection is the locking of the door.
The moment a child locks himself in the door, the parents become powerless in the child's life.
While it is a healthy parental role to gradually separate physically and emotionally from their children as they enter puberty, there are prerequisites.
The child must have developed the ability to manage his or her own body and mind and learn independently.
Separating from parents at this time is a healthy form of independence.


First-grader Hajun and six-year-old Hayun wake up early in the morning to study in the living room, read books in the living room, play board games with their parents in the living room, and talk.
The family started talking in the living room when Hajun said that he was jealous of his friend who had a camper van and that their family should buy one too.
Instead of scolding your child by saying, "You won't be able to use that kind of thing more than a few times a year," out of fear of giving them false hope, you should search for prices of campervans, figure out how much you need to save to buy one given your current financial situation, how much Hajun and Hayoon can contribute, and carefully organize what goals you need to achieve every day to do so. Then, you should establish a family project to purchase a campervan.
And then everyone ends the conversation by shouting fighting.
How long will this kind of conversation last? Until third grade.
The authors warn that the "living room time" period, where children are taught why they need to study, encouraged to actually get up and study, and encouraged to help with household chores and have conversations, is not very long.
The point is that we must start right now, as soon as possible.


Detailed organization of product names and purchase prices!
From handle organizers to living room tables, we've got a handy list of items you can use right away!

As befitting the author, who is known as the "King of Organizing Educational Information" on various educational platforms and private teacher-mom cafes, the book provides a thorough compilation of all educational environment items, from the living room to the bathroom, including product names, photo information, and even purchase prices.
Since they were little, Hajun and Hayoon have never asked their parents to bring out a towel for them or cut their food into bite-sized pieces.
This is because the space is organized so that towels are hung in places where the child can easily take them out, and tongs and scissors are placed where the child can find them so that they can be used whenever needed.
The sofa could also be used as a 'space for reading' rather than a 'chair for watching TV' because the sofa was positioned close to the bookshelf so that one could take out a book and lean against the sofa to read it.
The child can do it.
The problem isn't that the child doesn't like doing things alone, or that the sofa isn't removed, but that the environment isn't set up in a way that the child can do it.
Living room parenting can start right now.