Saturday 17 November 2007

Something simple after all!

It's strange isn't it, how small children's minds work and how parent's minds can then work overtime in response!

Thank you to everyone who left lovely comments on my "Something Spooky" blog yesterday. Of course I had another opportunity to see what was happening with them and their room this morning, while helping Rosie to get dressed. Hannah, who was sitting on the top bunk had a bird's eye view, of course.

Rosie wouldn't stand on the rug again, so I gently questioned her as to why not. She was facing the window again and she said: "I don't know." Then she turned around, facing in the opposite direction and said: "It's the no door."

Ah ha! Since we had a bit of building work on the house we haven't got round to putting the door back on the bedroom.

Hannah then piped up from the top of the bunk about the door they had on their bedroom when they stayed at Auntie Laura's and slept in the bunkbeds there. It seems they accepted the "no door" while in two seperate beds, but had assumed a new door would arrive with the new bunk beds.

Rosie seems to be worried about somebody suddenly popping around the corner on the landing and suprising her while she is concentrating on getting dressed or playing.

Hannah says she wants the room to be more like a tent and, of course, the tent had a door to their sleeping part and to the outside. So we are going to pin up a pair of muslin curtains to give the doorway a tent-like feel and see how it goes.

Parenting is confusing sometimes. It seems I was just looking in the wrong direction!

11 comments:

  1. Glad you have sorted it. Take care, Crystal xx

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  2. Berlimey well done you for finding out - and well done to the girls for being able to verbalise it . . .to be a parent you have to play detective sometimes . .

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  3. Of course someone did suggest that you ask the girls what the problem was. I'm glad it was so simple, and you didnt need priest with bell,book and candle! You can tell the girls this when they are older, and how they will laugh!

    I can't settle in a room with the door left open either - well it depends on the room and what I'm doing I suppose!

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  4. How funny that it was so simple! Glad you got to the bottom of it though. At least this is an easy one to put right!

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  5. Have just read these 2 in one go (so thankfully didn't offer any rubbish advice, which I fear I would have otherwise) - how funny that it was something so simple and not a malign force!

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  6. Well done! I'm so pleased that the girls could tell you what was wrong (I love the idea of a no-door!)

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  7. That's good as I never did get round to pm'ing !!!

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  8. Well, that will be a lovely remember-when story for when they are grown up!

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  9. Glad they are now sorted, My eldest has suggested that her sisters door is removed as in Freaky Friday when she is disrespectful of her elders and I rarely shut my bedroom door, but it is nice knowing you can

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  10. Glad it's resolved - I just didn't know what to suggest after the last post, so glad to come back and see it's sorted!

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  11. A lesson on group psychology I think. It is such a jolly room so good that they are both happy now.

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