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?

yes

i am comfortable with my kids disrepecting sofas. i really can live with that.

Am with you on this countessdracula....so much going on in my life I really cant get all stemaed up about my ds jumping on our (very cheap) sofa. Good/expensive furniture is for when the little darlings have buggered off. I really feel that children should not walk around frightened to touch anything in their own home. Perhaps its because my brother, sister and I had free rein in our house and I dont remember anything really terrible happening. (Of course you have to watch your kids are playing safely.) However, my SIL is really pissed off because my ds is allowed to jump on his grandparents sofa (actually I think thats where he started!!) and she and my husband were never allowed to when they were kids

my kids jump off the window sill and flip onto the sofa...what they hell! They've barfed on it, the dog has wee'd on it (i can see you all queing to come to my house!) I reckon when they (and we!) are older i want to remember the fun stuff we won't even remember the sofa!

oh god they will purpleduck

they'll remember jumping up and down on the sofa and mum saying nowt

warm fuzzy memories

No they are not allowed to jump on mine (or the RAF's) or anyone elses furniture, I think it's because we were never allowed when we were young so I kind of automatically inherited the rule.

Whats a nice sturdy sofa to bounce on then? We need to buy a new one, and our current one definately isn't holding up to the odd bounce or two.

No, because ours are really shitey cheap ones from Ikea and they would break

yes I do.

I have 2 boys full of energy, my living room looks well worn! {but loved!}

sometimes, now off like F a Z to find out why this thread seems to have taken off.....

Mine are discouraged to jump on the sofa, as I'm feeling too old and fat to keep bending down retreiving all the sofa cushions. Anyway, that's what their beds are for

I love watching mine jumping on the be though , they have such a great time. I remember many an hour spent jumping on the beds when we were children

Yes but ds is too old to want to and it doesn't seem to have occured to dd, who is nearly 3. But I am the woman who let ds and friends drag a mattress onto the stairs and play sliding down the mattress so I am not and never have been bothered about damage done to sofas or mattresses.

We weren't allowed to as children so I was determined my children would be allowed to.

Ds would ask if in someone else's house I think. I am also puzzled at the use of disrespectful wrt furniture!

It very much depends on how vigourous the bouncing is.
Sofas cost money and children shouldn't be allowed to trash stuff because they feel like it. I don't mind a bit of bouncing but there's only so much the furniture can take.

yes, I have a spare mattress for jumping also.

far safer than a trampoline imo

TBH - I didn't mind mine jumping on the sofa until recently when DS got to 6 and now he just seems to heavy and big to be doing it, meaning DD can't do it either now. If its only LtinyO's then it can't do too much damage.

Our sofas are very sturdy Laura Ashley (I bet no one else on here will admit to buying Laura Ashley furniture ). They have throws over them and the jumping pulls the throws off, which really annoys me, so jumping on sofa's has recently been banned!

my whole house is trashed

time for non-trashed ness when they get bigger

for now...I just can't get worked up about it. its a sofa ffs.

they are not allowed to jump on the piano though, lets be clear there. They can climb onto it but no jumping. See I do have limits

Filly, I can't afford to have my sofa trashed!!!

They aren't strictly allowed to - but I just can't get exercised about it. They don't so much bounce like on a trampoline, but they do climb on them, jump off them, pull cushions off etc. DS knows that he never does any of that in someone else's house (unless it's explicitly permitted). It's not that hard to have one rule at home and another when visiting.

I used to think it was bad mannered, and couldn't understand how a friend of mine at the time ds1 was a toddler would let her kids do it and on mine too!!

I do spend my life getting the dts to sit not stand on it more for safety I think now, as we have tiled floors and I do not want banged heads.

I do not mind too much a bit of climbing over the arm and rolling on the seats, etc but would not like full on jumping. Certainly not at other peoples houses. Funny how my rules have relaxed over the last 7 years though, after having 4 you just have to let the non-important things slide a little.

Will not ever tolerate sitting or standing on my kitchen table.

I think there is a difference here between trashed as in looking a bit scruffy, and trashed as in broken, in pieces, unusable.

Those of us with Ikea £100 sofas have good reason to be worried about the latter, IMO

you are right, franny, of course

I have an argos £100 sofa.

so it can withstand all sorts.

no jumping on sofas here, but they are allowed to pile up all the cushions around them & snuggle in to make a nest...

I was a sofa jumper, brown velour, corner sofa from mfi, circa 1979, I used to walk along the back of it, jump off it, roll over the arm somersaulting onto it, it was well and truly trashed, I grew out of jumping on sofas, I don't do it now, but still remember that sofa fondly
my 8 yr old, cheap, habitat sofa is a play area, for my lo's, they sometimes sit on it too. I almost wish it would fall to bits, but 5 years of children and it is still going strong.....

Definitely a no-no in our house! The only thing of any value that we own (that isn't packed away) are two Roche Bobois sofas & an armchair. They were wedding presents & although their covers technically can be washed, I guard those sofas like a tiger. So no jumping, climbing, rolling and certainly no mucky little hands! Seems a bit harsh but ds did roll off one of the sofas once & cut his head on a table leg. The rest of the house is full of good old Ikea stuff which I recommend to families with children everywhere!

Fillyjonk LOL at pulling the throws off...i dont mind them (all 5) jumping on the sofas, pulling cushions off but when the throws all get chucked on the floor i go a bit mad....weird really as it only takes seconds to put them back. Life to short to be worrying about sofa jumping besides if they are distracted with that and not hounding me then its all good

I don't allow mine to coz sofas are expensive but they are welcome to jump on their beds though - afterall me and dh do alot of it on ours! lol

I do have a friend who lets her dcs jump here there and everywhere - they have no respect for other peoples property and it drives my dh mad. HELP how do i ask her to control them??