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Titled: Give Your Child a Stimulating Bedroom With Space Saving Kid Furniture
Give Your Child a Stimulating Bedroom With Space Saving Kid Furniture
Article Summary: Creating a stimulating bedroom for your child is made easier with space-saving furniture that leaves more open floor space available. Beanbags are great for sitting. Foam couches that fold into beds and futon couches that do the same offer sitting during the day and fold into a bed at night. futon bunk beds with a single bed on top and a futon couch below are the ultimate space saver.
With the right kind of furniture, you can open floor space in your child's bedroom and help them create a stimulating environment. Research shows that a stimulating environment helps your child transition from being a helpless child to a more mature child capable of exploring the world around them and entertaining themselves. A stimulating environment will help your son or daughter grow physically and mentally. When you set up and furnish your child's bedroom, you have the opportunity to create this rich and stimulating environment. I have some suggestions that can help you create a wonderful world for your son or daughter.
Bedroom furniture should be a combination of fantasy and reality. For very young children, the difference between the two is a fine line which you can make the most of. A combination of small, kid sized furniture and regular sized furniture is manageable to a young mind. Children love a place that is sized for them and they where they are not always reminded of being little. Sofas and Chairs that a small and made of foam are available. These come in colorful, imaginative prints and are not overly expensive. An added benefit is some of these open out into an off-the-floor cozy bed for your child's "sleep-over" friends. Your child can move and rearrange these all by themselves because they are so light weight. Our family found sleepovers a less stressful, more fun filled event when we were prepared beforehand with the appropriate bedding. There are many types of fold-out form furniture - foam loungers, foam sofa-sleepers, and futons that already on a moments notice.
Rocking chairs are wonderful, mainly for mom and dad. More comfortable and suitable for children are beanbag loungers and chairs because they are sized for children. Beanbags will conform to a child's body shape as they sit in it, giving support to the lower back, shoulders, and arms. Beanbag couches and chairs are available in a wide variety of stimulating colors, textures, and prints. Some come in wild animal patterns, or star and moon patterns. Wet-look vinyl is a popular style, or perhaps furry, while others come in pastel or bright colors. Some beanbags are even shaped like a horse or elephant. My children and grandchildren love these animal character beanbags.
Foam furniture and beanbags are lightweight making them easy for your child to move and rearrange themselves. Such independence!! Which ever you choose, beanbags or foam furniture, be sure to purchase the type with hidden, cloth-covered zippers that make it easy to remove the cover for washing. Many of the zippers available are safety zippers that stay shut and keep the beans inside.
A child's room needs open floor space. This is where they will make their pretend world, spreading out their toys, dumping Legos, having tea parties with their stuffy animals and friends. They will arrange and rearrange this world everyday. But making this floor space open and useful can be difficult when the youngest child gets the smallest bedroom. Multipurpose furniture that can change shapes for different needs will be a wise investment for smart parents.
I found a great solution to this space problem with my own children - futons. A futon is a comfortable and lightweight couch for sitting during the day - a place you child and their will sit and chatter, or place you and your child to sit and cuddle while reading a book together. At night, they magically become a comfortable bed, off the floor, for your child's overnight guests. Kid futons are relatively inexpensive because there is no need to purchase a separate mattress.
Sitting with your child and reading to them has been shown to be one of the best things you can do with your child. This is a quite time, a time for focusing, relaxing, and relating to each other and to the characters you are reading about in the book. This is the time of day for drawing out life's lessons. Reading out loud to your son or daughter stimulates their imagination, expands their vocabulary, and starts them on a life long journey of reading on their own. The transition to bedtime is much easier from reading than from other activities, especially TV. Tip: leave the TV and computer in family areas where you can monitor what they watch and play, not in the child's bedroom.
After reading and its time for sleep, the futon couch will unfold into a cozy and comfortable bed. It is much easier for a child to relax and go to sleep after just having had a loving time reading with mom or dad than one who just watched a fast paced TV program. In the morning, the futon bed folds back into a futon couch leaving all that important floor space open and free for your child to build their imaginary worlds during the day.
As your child grows the type of furniture that will be useful for your child will change. Bunk beds or futon bunk beds are great space savers of that precious floor space. Kids can climb on bunk beds, practicing these skills in a safe environment. In pre-teen years, when kids learn to bond with friends outside the family, the sleep-over stage reach it peak, as often as once a weekend. Bunk beds are once again a space saving piece of furniture. And this is the age when kids no longer really want to sleep on the floor. Futon bunk beds combine a single sized bed on the top and couch on the bottom that folds into a double bed when needed. Rising above the world of disarray and clutter (if you have a son), the futon bunk bed is the ultimate space-save for a child's bedroom. One of the most satisfying furniture investments you can make for you children will be a bunk bed, and especially a futon bunk bed.
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Michael Urmann
Michael Urmann contributes to http://FutonsAndBeanBags.com which specializes in futons, kid futons, bunk bed futons,foam furniture, and beanbags
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