To Ask whether When you have your children's friends around for tea....

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Do you or have you ever shouted/told off your children for jumping on their beds and messing the duvet cover?

I've never bothered because they're having fun and its not like its something permanent like spilt paint or pen marks and I don't want the friends to feel unwanted. Obviously if they do something really bad I'd tell them not to do it, but jumping on the bed or rolling around isn't a big deal to me.

Also, if you tell them not to do it at home, you should keep an eye on them at others houses too and perhaps tell them off for doing it there if they feel that strongly about it.

So far my 2 DS's in the last 12 months have broken my double bed and their metal framed bunk beds my jumping on them so yes now I tell them off the little darlings

I would stop children jumping on the bed, regardless of whose children they are. It only takes one miss judged bounce for a child to bang their head/ fall and land badly. I would want to avoid a child in my care being harmed in such a way.
Plus bed slats seem to break far too easily these days, DD just knelt on one of hers and a slat snapped.
As for rolling around and messing things up, no, but I would expect them to tidy up when they have finished playing.

Yes I would, once the bed is made it stays made until it's bed time.

It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but apart from that I think I'm easy going enough. There are plenty of other things they can wreck

I never had cause to tell them off for jumping on the beds. I certainly would have done though. Messing the duvet cover would have been a complete non event. Why would that have mattered. Bloody ridiculous to tell them off for that.

I'm still laughing at the thought of my kids' beds being made in the first place.

Ds and his pal, like to use his downie for using it as a slide down the stairs.

Hmmmm... depends. When I found my dd and 3 of her girlfriends stripped totally naked and jumping up and down on my bed to One Direction then, yes, I did tell them all to stop jumping and get dressed.

I don't care about the beds being unmade or messy, but I still don't allow jumping on them, because I don't want injuries or the cost of a new bed.

when we used to visit my nan when we were kids we would take it in turns to jump from the top of the bunkbed onto the double bed

I didn't used to tell DS not to jump on the bed, but since on if the slats got broken, bed jumping is not allowed.

If he did it with his friends, I'd ask them to stop, but agree if's a shame they're allowed and explain how the bed was getting br

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I'd explain the bed was getting broken when it was allowed.

But, covers getting messed up? Any grown up who tells children off for this on s playdate wants to examine their priorities IMO! How joyless

I broke my collar bone when I was little jumping on the bed - landed on the floor a funny angle!

Wouldn't recommend it

I don'tlet them jump on the beds, don't want them to jump on furniture and they've broken the wooden slats on one bed. I wouldn't let them jump on a bed in someone else's house either - it's tricky though when you're at the house of someone who allows bed-jumping, and when you know the friends who are around are allowed to jump on beds at home.

No jumping on beds or furniture in my house.
They would get short shrift if they did and the death stare.

Would definitely tell them off. I wouldn't tell off a visiting child unless they were doing something dangerous, but I'd tell mine off and hope they got the message!

I smashed my head in jumping on my grandma's spare bed with my brother and cousin on one of those slippery eiderdowns that used to be on beds in the 70's. Slipped off and bam the corner of a chest of drawers connected with my forehead, still have the scar. Gave my mum a right shock when I came downstairs with a river of blood running down my face! So no jumping on beds in my house no. However DD may mess up her duvet cover to her hearts content, scrunch it on the floor whatever.

I wouldn't mind making a bed again for the sake of a (prolonged) good time - but that's not safe.

I wouldn't let them jump on beds. General play and being silly is fine but not things like climbing on furniture or hanging off the side oh the stairs DD1. So yes, I do tell them not to do it, but don't shout.

I'd let them jump on beds but I have friends who don't. When my children are bigger I might not let them.

They usually make little beds on the floor with the duvet I don't mind.

I'm quite happy for my children to be told 'we don't allow jumping on beds' .

And mine regularly use their duvets as capes/regal robes/disguises etc. I only intervene when they are running downstairs with it wrapped around them and dragging around their feet. It's meant to be a play date, not a hospital trip DD1

When DS1 has his BF round I have asked nicely, then still nicely but rather LOUDLY, for the noise to be kept down/jumping on beds to stop and so on.

However, when DS1 had his first sleepover, I did shout and was quite cross after they jumped on DS1's bed and totally snapped the frame (plus slats) in half! I was furious as I had gone up and told them to stop jumping or the bed would break not five minutes before, so it just came out a lot sterner than I would normally tell someone else's child off!

They were v apologetic and I calmed down quickly. DS's BF had to sleep on the floor on the mattress so had to experience the consequences of the breakage (DS on blow up bed).

No jumping or indeed climbing on furniture in my house. My house, my rules.

No jumping on beds but perfectly OK to mess around with a duvet. They are fun to play with. I'm perfectly happy for them to run riot in their own bedroom. As long as they don't jump on the bed, or jump off the higher bunk. I'm not sympathetic if they get hurt when jumping from top bunk.

Seeing as my dc both have bunk beds/loft beds, jumping on them would be ill advised! If they had normal beds it wouldn't bother me in the slightest.

No jumping or climbing indoors. If they want to run around then play outside.