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Can we talk about Montessori floor beds/ Montessori bedrooms?
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My 8 month old is very tall for her age and is almost too tall for her crib. I've done a bit of research, and I'm seeing recommendations to start a floor bed between 5 to 10 months (as soon as their mobile and can sit unassisted). Has anyone done a Montessori bedroom or floor bed? I'm interested to learn more.
Edit: Thank you, everyone, for sharing your insight. It's all been really helpful!
Top Comment: We did a floor bed since day one. He mostly slept with me or in the bassinet beside me for the first 6 months but around 4 months I started putting him on his floor bed for one of his naps each day. I would just sit in the rocker in his room while he napped to make sure he was good. We have his entire room baby proofed and curated for him. This has been a big deal for us because every morning he wakes up and just happily plays for sometime an entire hour. Like clockwork he's ready for breakfast at 930am. I would say 6/7 nights a week he plays for a whole hour after waking up, which means we actually get some good sleep. We do leave his water bottle for him now, and it's so funny. Every night at 2am he wakes up, we hear him shuffle in his sleep sack over to his water, hear the slurps. He babbles a bit and then we hear him literally throw himself on his mattress and go back to sleep lol. Every night we listen and have a small laugh. He's 16 months old now, I can not imagine doing a crib. He is such a good sleeper (minus the handful of sleep regressions and teething moments) and he also loves independent play. He has such a sense of independence to him, and you can tell he really feels like that bedroom is HIS room lol. I won't ramble about it any more, I'll just end with saying for us the floor bed has encouraged independence, positive play, and more sleep for us as parents. More sleep for me definitely improves my parenting skills lol
Are those house bed frames worth it?
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We are moving and dumping the crib and getting her a big girl bed!! Just wondering if those house bed frames are worth it? Does anyone have one?
Top Comment: I think they are so cute, but decided against one because I was afraid my monkey child would try to climb up the frame and break her neck.
Best place to buy bed linen and other house necessities
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Tomorrow I receive the key to a rental apartment, furnished, and will have to get some basic stuff like a duvet, bed linen, sheets (covers) etc as well as probably things like cutlery, pots and pans. I have none of this stuff with me and having just moved here in not sure where to go looking (I did like here 24 years ago as a child but now I'm the adult freaking with this not the child). I guess I'll be visiting IKEA either in barendrecht or online for most things but what other places are they which might be better?
Edit to add, moving to Lombardijen
Top Comment: Hema for basic stuff
Why doesn't Henry's starting house have a bed? : kingdomcome
Main Post: Why doesn't Henry's starting house have a bed? : kingdomcome
Do people in the U.S. wear shoes in their houses all the time or is that just a weird television trope?
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I've been binging Love on Netflix for the past week and can't help but notice that the characters are always wearing shoes indoors. Like, while cooking, hanging out, laying on their bed...what is up with this? Do people in the states (or California specifically) actually wear shoes in the house all the time? This seems insane to me.
Edit: Holy shit I woke up to a couple hundred very passionate responses to this question. Thanks to everyone for answering, it's still weird to me that people wear shoes indoors.
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Most people don't wear shoes around the house but we're not so religious about removing our shoes as cultures like the Japanese. It's perfectly common for somebody to walk in and then go sit down somewhere comfortable before removing their shoes.
On TV, people don't take their shoes off because it's a waste of screen time & cultural norms don't absolutely insist on shoe removal.