No more monkeys jumping in the bed - Page 2

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My 2 yo is allowed to jump on our king size bed that sits on a box spring on the floor - no frame. She knows that she is not allowed to jump on other furniture or her little bed. She also knows she is only allowed to jump when we are supervising. My thought is that there are a million ways kids can break bones - I'm pretty sure we weren't allowed to jump on beds when my brothers and I were little, but all of us had multiple broken bones from playing in the backyard and organized sports. I'm terrified when we go to the park because my daughter is becoming so courageous, but I don't stop her from climbing even though I know that one slip could cause a serious injury. I watch her carefully and help her learn safe techniques, but I don't tell her she can't climb.

[*Erin*]

Originally Posted by zeldamomma

1. Find another way to meet the need for jumping
2. Redirect them to the other jumping space when they start jumping on the bed.

yep that.
we go to an indoor bouncy place at least once a week, usually 2x, so they can get the bouncies out. in the moment, if i can tell they need to jump around, we go outside or i make a pillow pile from the sofa cushions.

my mom, at age 5, did a belly flop into a head board that knocked her unconscience and busted out every single one of her front teeth, top and bottom. :

i tell the kids that beds are for sleeping, not jumping, and that it's dangerous.

[cuttiebearmom]

Originally Posted by theretohere

OK, for those of you who don't let your kids jump on the bed- how on Earth do you get them to stop?

We aren't bed jumpers here. They break with a lot of jumping and we don't want to replace them. I know, I don't usually care about furniture but there a ton of ways that we offer to get the energy out without jumping on furniture.

Give lots of other ways inside the house to burn off energy. Lots of music, dancing, kids and adults chasing in the big circle of the downstairs, etc etc. Also lots of jumping outside off of fallen trees, into the brook (oh my - the mud is everywhere right now!). Anything they get themselves into is pretty much free game outside, softer things to land on but farther to fall sometimes I'm sure. We're lucky to have a lot of land to run around like crazy people :::

We never yell about it or anything, just get them involved in something else very energetic and now they just really know that we would prefer they do something else.