How To Organize Your Child’s Room To Make It More “Kid-Friendly”
While you are sitting on the floor, look for ways the room could be arranged to make it easier for a little person to manage. What about the bed? Are the sheets, blankets, and bedspread the ones adults think cute or pretty but that are hard for a child to make up neatly? Perhaps a bedspread with cording or a design marking the side edges of the bed is better.
Some children have a washable quilt that can easily be pulled up rather than having a top sheet and bedspread with it. The child can make it by just crawling up to the head of the bed, pulling up the cover, smoothing it, and slithering out.
As you are looking for ways to make the room arrangement easier, ask yourself if the child can hang up his own coat and robe. If not, maybe hooks would be easier than hangers.
You will probably want a wastebasket and some kind of clothes hamper in the room. Shoe boxes in the drawers make terrific dividers to separate socks, underwear, belts, and pajamas. As you sit on the floor evaluating, you will come up with some good ideas, but don’t forget to ask for the child’s opinion, too.
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