As days blur (Mondays and Sundays feel the same), a home’s function is also blurred. A home is not where you just sleep or take a bath, it has now become your office, your gym, your laundromat, your restaurant, your church, etc.
For those with kids, a home has now become a daycare center. For those with teens, it has now become a school (or a detention center if you have unruly ones). These are interesting times indeed, and you are not the only one changing with new habits and forced routines as your home is also “morphing” into a different entity.
Allowing the home to “change,” however, is not easy. There is the issue of space, of location, and of course, of a family’s economic standing.
This story is from the July 5, 2020 edition of Manila Bulletin.
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