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

[BigRedBall]

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.

Absolute no to jumping on beds - over excited multiple children and you are just waiting for an accident.

I wouldn't bother what my DC were told not to do in someone else's house I don't think. If they felt they weren't welcome, or didn't enjoy themselves, they just wouldn't go back.

I would expect them to do as they were told though.

My kids have bunk beds, when we have friends over the rule is no going on the top bunk but they regularly turn the bottom bunk into a den and play in that. I don't mind them pulling duvet off, making a den, playing in the bottom bunk but they can't jump in it obviously and I don't want kids playing on the top bunk. Any visiting child who climbed up to the top bunk would be told to get down.

Bed/furniture jumping never allowed, no not ever. Gardens and parks are the places for jumping and bouncing activities

I am always stern about jumping on beds. Mine don't do it at home and I hope to God they don't do it when away. Same goes for climbing on furniture. Not shouty but solemn.

I don't let children under age 10 play or hang out in bedrooms when they visit. They can use the playroom/spare room, sittingroom or diningroom, or go outside. I have very strict rules about friends going into my bedroom too.

Better to be strict than face a house of broken furniture.

Oh dear, we jump on the beds and clamber all over the furniture with ds I would never stop him, we do home soft play with all the pillows piled up and rough and tumble all over it. We love it.

No jumping on beds or sofas here. It's a major house rule and non negotiable, it's a pet peeve of mine. We have a trampoline, they are welcome to jump on that.