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Do you allow your children to jump on the sofa?

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xena · 15/11/2006 10:36

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?

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sandcastles · 15/11/2006 21:32

My daughter has never even tried it at anyone elses house. She knows that they way she treats her house, isn't necessarily the way you treat other peoples houses.

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hatwoman · 15/11/2006 21:36

they're allowed to bounce on the knackered old one but not the decent-ish leather one. I would tell them to stop if they did at someone else's house though

duke · 15/11/2006 21:43

even worse than jumping on the sofa my 6ft 7 brother has been holding my 2.4 ds over his head and dropping him on to the bed yelling body slam. They are in fits of laughter and there is lots of wrestling talk.

GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 15/11/2006 21:45

No. I am Uptight about jumping on furniture. Someone could get hurt.

Judy1234 · 15/11/2006 22:00

No. Sometimes they talk across it. I don't like that. I'm not always around to stop it. I did stop them throwing a ball around by a very expensive TV in a very smart house in front of the other child's mother last weekend. I don't think the other mother minded - she probably was thinking herself - no football in the house but hadn't wanted to intervene.

themoon66 · 15/11/2006 22:07

It's ok when they are little, but the problems arises when you have to tell a 5ft 10 teenage boy to stop it coz he's too big!

twickersmum · 15/11/2006 22:39

my dds love jumping on the sofa, jumping off the sofa, jumping over the sofa.
they love it.
they don't do it in other people's homes - i tell them they can't and they don't.

have just bought them a 8ft trampoline - best thing ever.

mymama · 15/11/2006 22:58

No. Well they try to and I tell them not to. In the first 4 years of school including preschool dd has had a child with a broken arm as a result of jumping on a sofa and falling off. Reason enough for me.

magicfarawaytree · 15/11/2006 23:04

yes but only in our house. wouldnt dream of letting them do half the things they do in our house at someone elses. think it helps them to learn boundaries - it hasnt yet but i'm hoping...

CountessDracula · 15/11/2006 23:16

Xenia you don't let your children talk across your sofa?

Judy1234 · 15/11/2006 23:18

Ah, I meant walk. Talking is always encouraged. Better than fighting.Actually that sofa has often had 5 teenage youths asleep across it for the night.

Rhubarb · 15/11/2006 23:20

Yes they do, no I don't care, no they don't do it on other people's furniture. Dh doesn't like it however, but he's a snob!

fortyplus · 15/11/2006 23:23

All xenia's friends are very wealthy - some of them are terribly hung up about whether or not to send their children to Eton.

TheDivineLiliLaTigresse · 15/11/2006 23:23

mmmm that's a big sofa Xenia
was it very expensive by any chance?
have you had many famous people sit on it?

fortyplus · 15/11/2006 23:23

xenia

fortyplus · 15/11/2006 23:25

xenia is also jolly pleased that this isn't a thread about jumping on the 'settee'
Sorry - I've had a glass of wine and I'm getting silly now.

Rhubarb · 15/11/2006 23:25

MY sofa is poshest because it's a bed too! So nerrr to Xenia!

Rhubarb · 15/11/2006 23:25

"Futon" How posh is that?

TheDivineLiliLaTigresse · 15/11/2006 23:25

lol fortyplus, I was thinking that

fortyplus · 15/11/2006 23:26

Time for xenia to adopt an alias, methinks!

TheDivineLiliLaTigresse · 15/11/2006 23:26

un futon
very posh when you say it in french rhubarb

Rhubarb · 15/11/2006 23:28

Clic-clac en Française!

Tortington · 15/11/2006 23:30

fleep flooop en custaise

TheDivineLiliLaTigresse · 15/11/2006 23:30

c'est vrai!
tu parles mieux que moi
mais clic-clac ca me fait penser a une paire de claques.......