dkhedmo wrote:
Just wondering about how others feel about how your kids treat the
furniture you provide for them in their bedrooms and playrooms? Do you
feel the stuff is theirs to do with as they please,

No.

or do you feel it
belongs to the family as a whole and expect things to be treated with a
certain amount of care?

Of course!


Do you feel differently about items that are specifically kid
sized/designed for kids than you do about regular furniture pieces that
are in the kid areas? For example, a kid sized table and chairs set: how
would you feel about the child purposefully drawing a picture on the
table in marker that could not be removed easily?

Wouldn't ever happen.

How would you feel
about marker markings on a mattress or dresser? Stickers on a lamp? Glue
on the bedding?

Wouldn't ever happen - the opportunity for those things to be used
unsupervised by a child who doesn't know any better simply would never
exist.



I'm sure you can all see where this is going! We are in a very small
place and the only area we can guarantee ds1 5.5yo freedom from the
maurauding toddler little brother is his room, which we keep gated off
so he can have all his "big boy" stuff, which includes various craft
supplies, as ds1 loves to make pictures etc and it keeps him quite
happily busy often. Unfortunately, he also tends to space out and do
goofy little things without thinking. I don't think he's being
purposefully destructive, but it's really annoying to see scribbling on
the new boombox, marker on the mattress or sheets, inky fingers smeared
on the lamp.

Then he isn't mature enough to use such items unsupervised. I am sure
he has many other toys he can play with in his room.


Some of the furniture in question are things that might be handed down
to said maurauding toddler in time, or be put into other areas of the
home such as a guest room, etc when we are in place with more space and
start aquiring more furniture.

Opinions?

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

-L.