Here's what actually got me over it: One day, I was watching him playing with
our children jumping on the bed, seething with anger because it was five minutes before bedtime and he was riling them up.
Check all the joints and screws, especially when
your child jumps on his bed.
We had
children jumping on the beds, mommies sharing birth stories, guys hanging out in the man cave, and just great fellowship.
Not exact matches
I am hoping to have a progressive home and raise my daughter to be open and aware, but I do not think I will allow someone elses
child into my home to possibly infect or abuse my daughter... He could certainly be a great guy, or he could not be... He could be a bad guy who could change my daughter by hurting her in many different ways... Sex is sex, but another human being being raised by some one you do not know could potentially be harmful... Even if I know the other
childs mother or father... the other
child could be not so good at heart... I will just raise my
child to focus
on herself and her future and her education and wants, needs, likes, and dislikes before
jumping in the
bed with some body who could hit her, impregnat her, or give her an STD: S
When your
child is old enough, make sure they know how to get down from the
bed safely — by sliding off the
bed on their belly — never by
jumping off the mattress.
This is a sure - fire invitation for your
child to start
jumping on the
bed in a lively way.
Instead of saying, «Stop
jumping,» when your
child is
jumping on the
bed, tell him why it's a problem.
If your
child asks to
jump on the
beds, playfully ask her to
jump «carefully,» with enough of a sparkle in your eye that she'll know it's OK to surprise and scare you with how high she can
jump.
Children delight in making us brush our teeth and forbidding us to
jump on the
bed.
They
jump up and down
on the
bed like giddy
children as he chants «I won the Nobel Prize.»
(The Davies boys
jumping around in their
beds become the
children who defy gravity and fly out the window, and so
on.)
The Big 5 or any traditional publisher will give the author no say and choose an illustrator who can imagine what no one else could possibly imagine from the words, and they might draw a
child bouncing
on a
bed with crumpled sheets as waves, and the pet dog, representing the shark,
jumping in the
bed as well — creating a far more rewarding reading and visual literacy experience for the reader.
However, I can honestly say there is one
child who can be seen climbing the furniture,
jumping on the
bed, or poking the bear (my husband) in the hopes of wrestling way more than the other.