Do you allow your children to jump on the sofa?

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I don't and don't really like it when other children jump on mine. If they want to get rid of some energy whats wrong with the garden?

"It had never occured to me anyone might ban sofa-jumping until I read in Baby Whisperer for Toddlers that it shouldn't be allowed"

Does nayone know why this book says dont allow it?

just to throw another no-no into the ring. I don't like pets on furniture either so I'm very pre-shus (actually i don't have any pets but if I did they wouldn't be on the furniture especially not the bed ).

at the idea of kids somehow missing out because they aren't allowed to jump on sofas!

PMSL at CD's 'never heard of dissing a sofa' that's so funny.

Ds is 4.5, he doesn't climb on and jump like a trampoline, but as part of his play he will walk accross it, jump off it, stand on it roll off it etc etc.

I'm with CD, it's only a sofa. I see it as encouraging imaginative play.

PMSL- charlotte moore in her book george and sam (she has 2 autistic sons, 1 nt) writes about attending a parenting course (pre diagnosis)where it dawned on her that the behaviours being mentioned as problems were deemed good behaviour in her house (she mentioned jumping on the sofa and throwing cushions).

my ds used to be allowec on our old sofa but not my nice new leather one. i have seen him when he thinks im not looking and keeps doing forward rolls from the arms landing on to the setee, however when he suddenly decided to rund and try to do a hand stand on to it and fell off coming very close to landing on his 20week old brother who was quite hapy under his baby gym it had to be banned. he cant bounce on his bunk bed as he would hit his head on the celing!! but now instead swings over the edge of the bed and doesnt use the steps to go up and down. SO i let him join our local gymanstics club, as they have boy only groups , whihc he had been loving much to my surprise as they get to run and jump off hugh beams in to foam pits!! and i get a nice quiet eve as hes knackered and in bed!!! all happy all round. ( sorry that was a bit long!)

Yes, I do.

Only on ours though.

Not in shoes though.

No shoes on in my house. Off at the front door.

this is sooo funny. gonna go get the kids from school and we are gonna bounce on the sofa till tea time!!

They do want to and sometimes get away with it but I always tell them not to. I just think it's wrong, and we have a trampoline so there's really no excuse.

I'm with CD on this one

sofas are for bouncing on and making dens out of the cushions and being buried in the cushions and generally playing around on

what's the harm?

No mine dc aren't allowed to. They can climb onto the sofa and stand up (with shoes off) but no jumping because the sofa is next to the nice HARD slate hearth and wooden floors. A & E anyone?

Oh I also think its bl**dy rude when people do let them do it at your house. My sofas, if you want to pay for them to be replaced then your kids can jump on them

Also while I'm on the subject...I have a friend who is really a control freak about what goes on in her house yet lets her children do all the things she won't let happen at hers at mine...grrr. Found crushed biscuit ground into the sofa at mine, when we go to hers the children have to stand in the kitchen to eat a biscuit and she put a coffee cup down on my ANTIQUE (only antique in the house) bureau....

Blimey I am angry today I think it's just reading that thread about 9mth old who was killed. I'm off to have a sit down...

not allowed... but they ignore me!! DS 1 can't resist.

he runs down the hall, hits end of sofa and somrsaults over onto it.

I suppose I should be proud of his gymnastic ability!

yep, but only at our house. He knows not to do it anywhere else.

No I don't let her and if she tried I ask her not too. Likewise with visiting children, or if DD tried to stand or jump on sofas at other people's houses. I don't want my furniture spoilt.

We do have a giant bean bg though which the children love to run and jump into

Joolstoo, I'm with you about pets on sofas. But I've no objection to children bouncing on the pets - it's very good exercise for all involved.

Well my house is full of antiques, again it's only furniture and any marks add character IMO!

(dh bought me a Willy Rizzo coffee table for my bday and that seems to be surviving!)

Ds tromps about all over the sofa. At the moment he is more into surreptitiously wiping yoghurt on it than using it as a launchpad...but suspect it won't be long. Ho hum......

we don't have a garden and short of wrestling her to the ground and causing a 2 hour tantrum i have yet to find a way to stop her

maybe it helps if you have a crappy sofa anyway

just started reading through and i'm havng flashbacks to my own childhood and watching tv lying on the back of the sofa and climbing all over it, my parents had that sofa before i was born and still have it so it obviously didn't do it much harm, lol!

my sofa is an antique too

no

but that's because Cod's DS thinks he's a dog called Steve so it would be letting a dog jump on the sofa .. which is totally differnt

yes, children without shoes
no to pets (scratch my lovely leather)

lol at you rememebring htat