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Organizing & Parenting Solutions to Pandemic Problems

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2020-11-17 19:00:00 2020-11-17 20:00:00 America/Chicago Organizing & Parenting Solutions to Pandemic Problems Professional organizer, Jennifer Barnes, will show how to best organize your home to provide healthy and efficient work spaces for adults & kids in this new normal with new difficulties we are facing. Virtual -

Tuesday, November 17
7:00pm - 8:00pm

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Professional organizer, Jennifer Barnes, will show how to best organize your home to provide healthy and efficient work spaces for adults & kids in this new normal with new difficulties we are facing.

Through discussion of how to organize our space and our time, we will learn practical ways to teach our kids to be organized and responsible. The talk closes with discussion of how to maintain the systems and spaces that we set up in our homes, long after the pandemic fades.

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