Planning your kids room or nursery should be fun, but there is more to it than simply making it look good.
I have two boys and they have taught me more about kids than any book ever could.
1. Practical ” Firstly it is worth remembering that most colored fabrics can only be washed at thirty degrees and usually you cannot use stain remover on them.
So, if your child never has food or drink in their room maybe you think that the bedding wont get that dirty? I had one awful week where between my sons they managed to have a nosebleed, vomit and wet the bed. These are all symptoms of high fevers, so totally unavoidable.
2. Attractive ” During the day you may rarely have time to consider the design of your kids bedding, but when you check in on them at night, you want to see them sleeping soundly in a beautiful calm which they deserve after an active day. At these times you may not want to see spider man or a dalek looking back at you!
3. Affordable ” When they get a nosebleed and it leaves a stain, you dont want to be angry that your beautiful bed linen is stained. Or when they leave a pen to leak on it you want to discipline them for not putting the pens away, not for ruining the bed linen. If they dont mind that there is a stain on their duvet cover they probably wont understand why it is bothering you so much.
You can never predict when kids will stop wetting the bed, so it is worth investing in a stock of bed mats. Unlike the old plastic sheets (which crinkled when you lay on them) Pampers have made a bed mat which is very absorbent and soft so they will never even know that it is there.
Before you get too carried away and buy lots of different sets of kids bedding, it is worth remembering that you really only need two: one on the bed and one being washed! If you are considering different designs it may be worth keeping them similar or having one plain so that you can mix and match is there is ever a need to.
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