{"id":4296,"date":"2020-04-03T23:10:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T23:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:27:02","slug":"the-device-your-teen-needs-for-home-based-distance-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/the-device-your-teen-needs-for-home-based-distance-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Device Your Teen Needs for Home-Based Distance Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"Long before the stay at home orders were issued due to Covid-19, I was a freelance writer, which means that much like today, I was at home for hours and days and eons with my son. Except I was a freelance writer years ago, and my son was very little. Like maybe 2 or 3. And I would balance making words for money, and caring for an extremely active and squiggly kid. He climbed on everything constantly, including me. I remember one day he was climbing on me while drinking milk and he spilled milk on my laptop and I most certainly cried over that spilled milk.\n\nI likely went back to corporate marketing shortly after the milk\/laptop incident. Now my son and I are back to existing in the same house for hours and days on end. Except now a few things have changed. The main thing that has changed (mercifully) is my son is too old to watch to Happy Feet repeatedly. He\u2019s now 14.\n\nJust a few days before our state\u2019s governor issued a stay at home order, I grabbed a Wacom One<\/a> for my son with the intention that he\u2019d use it for art, and for his favorite subject: math. I am terrible at math and to see my beautiful boy excel at such an arcane, Byzantine subject is a real head scratcher. Also I just assume he\u2019s right on all of his problems because what the hell do I know? Answer: literally nothing. Just a few days ago, my husband told me how to figure out percentages on a calculator so I no longer have to go to Google and type \u2018what is X the percentage of Y\u2019? (OMG: I am writing this on the company blog. Hello Nobu! Don\u2019t worry! I don\u2019t need math skills for my job! I have Google!)\n\n\"\"\n\n \n\nI give myself a sold B to B- for my parenting abilities. For example, I never have cut a single crust off a sandwich and the boy has been doing his own laundry since he was 8. Also I never played on the play equipment with him. I just sort of sat on the sidelines and said good job occasionally, but only in a half-hearted way so that he\u2019d still be motivated to slide down the slide better. But now he seems like a happy kid and he\u2019s pretty funny too. Stephen King once said: humor is almost always anger with its make up on. So maybe he\u2019s not that happy. What does Stephen King even know???!\n\nLike I said, I\u2019m an okay parent, but I made one really great parenting decision and that was getting the Wacom One<\/a> for his distance learning. When I brought it home, my son immediately cleaned his room. I mean, I feel like I could stop this blog post here and I\u2019d have a good bunch of you running to Wacom estore to purchase one<\/a>. Go ahead!! You don\u2019t need to read the rest!\n\nAfter he plugged the Wacom One<\/a> into his laptop, he got to drawing right away with Autodesk Sketchbook. This is a great app for anyone who hasn\u2019t earned their chops in Photoshop. Hint: even I can help customers use Autodesk Sketchbook on a busy trade show floor! Come to me with a question about Photoshop and here\u2019s me:\n\n