The parent's bedroom - what are your house rules?

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and how old are your kids?

I'm just getting a bit fed up of DS (4) leading DD (2.6)into our room to play and then trashing it. Dragging the duvet off the bed etc is all very well in their rooms when it's part of imaginative play but not ours.
Until now they have always wandered in and out with toys in the morning while we are all getting ready but now I have started leaving them to play upstairs alone, they are going in by themselves. I think it might be time to set a new rule : no playing in parent's room unless they are in there (this is how it was in my childhood as far back as I can remember ie age 7).

anna, I didn't mean no need for bed bouncing in any situation for anybody. It was a comment about my own family set up.

NdP - don't worry, I didn't take your comment as any kind of criticism . Personally I'd much prefer to outsource trampolining, bicycling, football etc to the garden but I allow it in the flat because otherwise we'd go bananas spending our whole lives in the local park...

No-one in our room unless we are there.

Since our son has spent most of his life sleeping in bed with me and dh and only at the age of 5 began sleeping through the night in his own room we have never really considered the bedroom we sleep in as "ours" and tend to refer to it as "the big room". He gets to come and go as he likes really.

My brother and I used to play "speleologists" under the covers of our parents bed on sunday mornings. (a great concession from my mother who's generally obsessed with tidyness etc). The children haven't expressed a big interest in our bedroom so far though.

trampolining in the 'big bed', football or 'socks-skating' in the corridor, playing wolleyball against the wardrobe... aahhh the memories!!

Pippi, were we siblings? I was so desperate at times that I'd rollerskate on a 2 metres long balcony...

oh yea and that too...

I am not fussed about the bedroom... I will be fussed a bit about what I'll call the 'study' but to be honest I don't care.

no rules. Coudn't enforce it anyway.

We like visitors coming to stay because then ds1 bothers them at 3.30am and we get a full night's sleep.

My children are not particularly interested in our bedroom unless we are there. Unless DD (3) has her best friend round and they are doing their hair, piling 75 necklaces on and then adding a pair of plastic mules and a snow white dress and they want to use my long mirror to check the effect. They know they are allowed to do that. DD does wander around with my shoes on, but it is more often the ones I have left out, although she does have a particular favourite pair of black peeptoe heels. The one thing that happens that I get cross about is DD messing about in my dressing table drawers. I am usually in the room when she does this though. Weekend mornings the children tend to get in bed with us - this drives DH mad, but mainly due to the fight over who is in the middle that ensues.

We have a high up hook type lock on our door. Firstly to keep our cats(who love to murder birds and mice and macerate them on our bed) out, and it just sort of evolved that the kids don't go in there. Bit of a pisser when i ask DD to get me something from my room and she shout down that its locked!!
My mum tells all the grandchildren that they cant go in her room as there are tablets in there that are dangerous.