Comments on: Love is patient, love is tired

By: TNMom

TNMom — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:53:44 +0000

Little Bear and Puppy must know each other…but Little Bear likes to jump on the bed all day. Makes him tired at night, though.

Loved it!

By: joe

joe — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:46:33 +0000

IMO, bedmaking is easy if you allow it to be. no top sheet. toss a quilt over the bed. done. i hate bed making, and growing up it was a nightmare. top sheet, hospital corners, summer or winter blanket, duvet on top of that, decorative afghan at foot of bed, pillow shams, decorative pillows–walking from one side of the bed to the other, over and over…really, i was tired and depressed before the day began. all at mother’s insistance. our rooms were museums and it didn’t even look like kids lived in the house.

that said, i don’t believe in a total free-for-all. i hate chaos. i prefer consistency when it comes to enforcing rules and i believe in allowing kids to use their rooms. either you enforce bedmaking or you don’t. some parents want the kids’ rooms to be clean EOD, others just have a “no food” rule, others inists on bedmaking only…there are lots of ideas, but having a consistent approach, i think, works really well. another common approach is “shared living areas must be kept neat, but bedrooms are creative and personal spaces.” that way, when people come over, the LR, DR and EIK look great, and you just close the bedroom doors. :)

By: Lori

Lori — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:08:17 +0000

I am a heathen – no matter how hard my parents tried, I have never understood why a bed needs to be made. No one goes in my (our) room except to sleep so why should I (we) make my (our) bed. (My hubby doesn’t normally make the bed either)

There, my secret is out! (Also – kidling #1 is in a loft bed & kidling #2’s bed is a loft bed that is currently on the floor – he’s only 4 – so there is no bedmaking for the kids either.)

By: Holly

Holly — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:39:06 +0000

I’m in the minority here, but yes, MOST mornings all the beds get made in our house. The bedrooms are often the only rooms in the house that look NICE all day. And I am teaching my 5 & 8 year old how to do it as a way to learn routine, cleaning up after yourself, and responsibility.

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:57:24 +0000

Happy to say that I’m among the ranks of the “non-bed-makers.”

And since my kids don’t use their top sheets I just don’t put one on their beds! LOL

DH once read an article that extolled the virtues of not making ones bed. Apparently leaving the sheets open to the air rather than covering up the bed makes an unappealing environment for dust mites. I think I just found a similar article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4181629.stm

See? There is a good reason to be lazy sometimes! ;-)

By: Kenyatta

Kenyatta — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:12 +0000

Now that is too sweet! I wouldn’t make him make his bed either! That just made me want to hug him and I haven’t seen him,nor do I even know him! That’s pretty cool. And we don’t make our beds either…shame shame

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:01:11 +0000

If I don’t make the beds, I’m sure that bugs or other such creatures are crawling inside during the day. Can’t help it.

By: Cele

Cele — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:50:30 +0000

Oh mi gosh I am so envious. I must make my bed, has to be done daily. I can’t get into bed if it’s not been made. I am anal retentive that way, it’s like an albatros around my neck.

By: Audi

Audi — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:29:58 +0000

My kids don’t get a top sheet either. They just end up on the floor when I do try to give it to them. Wish I could go without one. Alas I have a waterbed and they seem to think that they must sew the topsheet to the bottom sheet to get them to stay on.

My daughter sleeps on her bed differently than most. Instead of sleeping with her head at the top and her feet at the bottom. She sleeps sideways. Head and feet hanging over the edge. Atleast once a week she falls out of bed and get angry about it. I have to remind her that if she didn’t sleep they way she did she wouldn’t fall out of bed. Then to add to the mahem both kids have a beloved animal that they sleep with.

By: suburbancorrespondent

suburbancorrespondent — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:20:27 +0000

We have Puppy, too. I love Puppy.