to not let my children bounce on their beds?

[PigeonPie]

I have the rule that my children are not allowed to bounce on their beds. Mainly because I don't want them falling off and damaging themselves and I don't want to have to buy new beds because they've broken their current ones.

Also, we have had toys broken because they were left on the bed and then not noticed and landed on, so I now have the rule, particularly when friends come, that they are not allowed to play on the bed either.

However, I really don't know whether I am being unreasonable in this. I just don't understand allowing children to wilfully destroy the place where they sleep.

So AIBU?

Mine are allowed to bounce on beds and the sofas.

I'm not completely soft, though. They're not allowed to bounce on the bunk bed.

If you do let them bounce - how do you make sure they don't do it at other people's houses?

No Shiney, I just wanted to know what the balance of opinion was!

Gubbins - bunk beds tend to be quite dangerous hey - although DS3 does climb like a monkey from one end of the other upside down with his hands and feet clinging onto the underneath of the top bunk

PigeonPie, you say 'don't bounce on other people's beds because they might not like it'

No bouncing allowed here. We were having terrible nighttime problems with bouncing on the bed and as part of tackling the sleep we've become very strict on the no bouncing on beds rule.

PigeonPie - very simple - they know that other people have different rules for their homes.

Next door they have to take their shoes off, only eat and drink at the table, and are allowed to play in any of the upstairs rooms.

At home they are encouraged to take their shoes off (although as I'm the worst culprit for not taking them off it's rarely enforced), food and drink is allowed to be eaten in any room except the bathroom, and they know they're not allowed to play in my room.

TBH if someone else lets their DC and mine bounce on their beds then thats up to them!!

My DC won't complain

Their house their rules!!!

ooooooo 'ello Simpson - haven't seen you around posting for a while

Let them bounce; rather get a new bed than ever a trampoline [boooak].

T&F - hiya how are you??

Hows the digging on FB going??

RL been getting in the way so not been on here as much....

I don't let my children bounce or stand on the sofa. But my SIL lets her DS bounce and run on theirs. She was most put out when I told him to stop bouncing on my sofa.

YANBU.

roffling at "respect for your sleeping space"

I'm going to use that on dcs tomorrow and watch expressions of incredulity turn to horror on their little faces

digging's going great - been really lucky with the old Cash finds on there, and now you can trade in treasure collections multiple times I raced ahead as I had about 30 to do lol

kinda got bored of digging tbh

But more into frontierville now

How are your DSs??

not doing Frontierville - they keep adding new islands and stuff on TI so I keep on at that.

DS's are great - getting so big >

put DS3 in a pair of 4-5 trousers today expecting to roll the legs up and didn't have to

Noooo on the trousers for your DS3

Was he taller than my DS I can't remember??

DD still tiny and in 18mth clothes and she is 2.5.....