Tips To Find Your Kids To Create Their Beds
My mother told me when my child was two that I needed to make sure he grew up in the habit of making his bed. I laughed. He was just two and could barely see over the bed, never mind make it! There had been times when he had tried to be helpful and I’d had to do a lot of cleaning up afterward. I decided to ignore her advice; I genuinely thought it would be too much bother. Boy, was I wrong!
One of my best friends, Tina, has 3 sons, and unlike me, she took her mom’s advice. Result? She hasn’t made a bed that is not her own for almost 20 years. So I asked her how she did it.
Twenty years ago the ‘Continental Quilt,’ or Duvet, was pretty new and unusual. Bed linen consisted of sheets, an assortment of blankets, perhaps a quilt and/or a bed-cover. Bed-making involved a great deal of bending, wrapping, pulling and tucking. It was a lengthy procedure, and could be tiring, especially if you had to create all the beds in a house. Fortunately the continental quilt, or duvet, seemed to provide a solution, so Tina decided to find more. Once she did, she was hooked.
The duvet itself is very similar to a comforter or quilt, usually stuffed with down or artificial fiber. Duvets are available in different weights or ‘tog’ ratings which tell us how warm they are, all the way from summer weight (about a tog rating 4) through warm to warmer (tog rating 9). The duvets are placed in attractive duvet covers which can be closed with a series of snap buttons on the lower edge. This allows duvets to be mixed and matched; a summer weight duvet can be added to a warmer, winter-weight duvet and placed in the similar cover to provide a snug, warm cover for the coldest of nights. But that’s not all.
While conventional bed linen comes in plain colors and florals, neither very beautiful to children, duvet covers have, from the very beginning, been available in a wide range of models, many featuring characters from comics, TV and children’s books. So Tina jumped in.
First of all, she let the children choose their own sprei ^(http://www.omahsprei.com) (Indonesian Language); in each case a bed in a bag set provided everything each child needed, from sprei kintakun (Indonesian Language) to duvet cover and pillow cases/shams. She bought duvets and pillows and repainted their bedrooms in neutral colors leaving sprei online (Indonesian Language) as the bright, focal-point of the room. The children were all delighted and loved their new rooms, but more than that, she encouraged them to keep it looking nice. Bed-making could not be easier, no pulling, tugging or tucking. The pillows can to be re-aligned and ‘plumped’, the duvet straightened and smoothed, and there it was, a perfect bed the boys could be proud of. Simple to make, warm and comfortable to sleep in, it looks good and feels good. Not a difficult conversion. So there it is.
Tips To Find Your Kids To Create Their Beds By house | March 18, 2011
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