Necessary changes when sending a child to school
Arrangement of a children's room
In addition to the fact that the children's room is a room that requires a responsible approach to its arrangement, it must always, first of all, correspond to the age period of your child. In this case, this is probably the single most important condition, the matter of taste, image and lifestyle of the rest of the family is taken into account here. That is, ideally the preschool child's nursery has nothing to do with the arrangement of a teenage child's room. Ideally, changing the interior and arrangement of the room moves in step with the growth of the child and requires significant changes at least every 13-15 years. Keep in mind that the arrangement of your children's room must be carried out taking into account permissible future permutations or alterations, which will be further carried out to cover the emergent needs, nature and activity of your child.
According to the popular opinion of children's psychologists, the children's room should be equipped and "launched" as soon as possible. It is the conditions of the child's stay in her room, the level of her organization and comfort, will influence the further formation of habits and the character of the future of your already grown-up child, the person who has formed. However, you should also listen to another advice of professional psychologists, creating a new children's world, take into account your child's wishes.
Of course, not everyone has the opportunity to provide completely optimal conditions, but you will agree that one can strive for this as much as possible out of their capabilities, everyone can.
Functionality - the main quality of a child's room
The starting point for arranging a children's room, from which it's worth starting off this principle of functionality. However, it should be borne in mind that the functional arrangement of any "adult" dwelling is significantly different from that of a child. For example, if for an adult person the functionality of a residential premise is primarily convenience, then with a qualitative evaluation of external objects, the child will primarily have an interest. Let's look at an example of such a seemingly uncommon thing as a sofa.
The adult, based on the priority of convenience, will have the main functional requirements is comfort in a certain position, for example, sitting or lying down. At the same time, the child will want a sofa, on which you can jump or talk with your legs, lie down and sit. To spend a dream for the child, for example it is more interesting on a bed where it is necessary to get, instead of to lay down, on a bright and colorful bed which can be the unique form. As an example, you probably saw children's beds, for boys made in the form of a typewriter. And so in everything, interest, not convenience.
Naturally, the level of functionality of your children's room will be determined by the available sizes, which will allow you to make the necessary furnishing and layout. The approximate minimum of such an area is 8-10 m2 for a single room and 12-14 m2 for two. This area will allow you to painlessly place a bed, a small writing or gaming table( approximately 150x220 cm), a closet. As psychologists note, for children requires much more free space in their living room, on the basis of this 3 m2 of not cluttered free space for the child is not enough, especially active. If there is a possibility for parents to sacrifice some priority, it is better to give the child one of the largest rooms in the apartment, which will also be warm and bright.
Zoning child, why is it needed?
Ideally, the very children's room should be divided into 3 clear zones: working, playing and sleeping. It's better when the work and play areas are located in the remote part, if you do the cleaning, with this arrangement you will not interfere with the child, do something at the table or play. If you have a large children's room, designed for 2 children, it is better if it is divided into two personal zones. It is better if in each of the personal areas except the bed there will be a wardrobe and a table for clothes. The most rational way of delimiting zones is achieved with the help of "cabinets" locked with "backs".
It is natural to get the optimal layout and zoning of the children's room is not always possible, given the lack of space or, for example, the unfavorable location of doors and windows, but try to observe such conditions:
- minimum amount of furniture;
- is the main priority on free space;
- Location of the written( game) table near the window
- the location of the bed in the most tranquil place of the children's room.
Please also note that when building a children's room, it makes no sense to purchase expensive and chic furniture, a child can scratch it, paint it, or simply stain it. To scold a child for this is not only senseless, but also stupid, because he only knows the world around him. In principle, the most significant criterion in choosing the first furniture for a children's room is practicality, as well as the "friendliness" of materials from which this furniture is made.
Furniture in the first place should be strong, light, stable, but not massive. It is better if the surface is not susceptible to mechanical influences, and also to contamination of the surface. One of the basic requirements to the surface is its smoothness and roundness. If you touch the issue of coloring, for facing materials, then the opinions of professionals boil down to a simple advice, bright and cheerful colors should predominate in the children's room.
The nature of your children's room must consistently reflect the nuances and features of the current age periods, namely:
- "slider"( 1-3 years);
- pre-school active( 3-6 years);
- school active( 6-12 years);
- teenage( 12-15 years).
Beds for babies or preschool children
Let's start with crumbs. As you yourself understand, furniture for crumbs needs a minimum: changing table and cot. Given the age of the crumbs, he naturally needs more than ever the help of adults, so it's better to put the crib near the parents' bedside. At the same time, the child does not care what kind of bed this is, the cradle with the canopy for the princess, the "boat", etc. The main thing now for a child is a healthy dream. To achieve a healthy sleep as you perfectly understand better in bed with natural materials from natural wood( the most commonly used birch, beech, maple).
The right mattress will also serve as the basic requirement and helper for healthy sleep. Here, in fact, unlike the appearance of the bed, the case in which it is impossible to economize in any way. The mattress must be exactly the size of your child's bed and made only of environmentally friendly materials. A baby mattress for a newborn baby must be orthopedic and rigid, when the child sleeps on such a mattress, it bends under the head and the ass, leaving the spine flat. When laying the mattress is best laid on flex, a specialized spring frame made of bamboo racks, flex serves primarily to prevent the development of scoliosis in a child.
The vast majority of baby cots on the market are designed for the child's growth. Such beds, as a rule, have a larger size, removable panels on the sides and a dropping bottom. The smallest baby cot, about 50 cm wide and 100 cm long, will be sufficient in size for your baby during his first year of life. The size of the crib in 60x120 cm, respectively, will last until the age of four, and a bed of 70x140 cm is suitable for a first-grader. In everyday life, children's beds on roller coasters with a height-adjustable bed are practical and very comfortable, it is convenient to lay crumbs in such a crib, and also to qualitatively restructure the crib.
When buying a child's bed for preschool and slab children it is necessary to pay attention to the details of the structure, namely:
- the distance between the cots of the cot should not exceed 7 cm, the child should not push the head between them;
- the height of the cot fence should be more than 60 cm;
- the glued and articulated joints of the construction of the bed parts must be securely closed;
- Rear-mounted swivel mounts to the backrests must also be sturdy and reliable.
Location of furniture and children's things
In addition to the above, you also need to allocate the necessary number of shelves individually for the needs of crumbs: for diapers, raspashonok and other children's things. In the kitchen, children's dishes and food should also be placed separately, it is advisable to keep a similar order and place in the bathroom a baby bath and bathing accessories. Also, sooner or later you will need a swaddling table, a feeding table and a stroller for walking. More large-scale changes in the children's room will not be until the age of one. In addition, you will only need a toy box, the number of which will grow at an enviable rate and consistency.
Please note that in the slider period the child will spend almost all of the time on the floor, even considering that he will be able to walk, it is fun and the main thing is to crawl very quickly and he will not stop. Proceeding from this, correctly arrange the furniture to form the maximum free space in the center of the children's room for safe playing and movement of your karapuza. Carefully examine the room, there should not be anything superfluous, unstable and acute in it.
At this stage of the child's development it will not be superfluous to use all sorts of "protective things" that will provide additional protection for your child and peace of mind for you parents. The karapuz then grows, then prepare for the trials for the tooth of everything that is within its reach. To "protective tricks" it is possible to carry plugs for electric sockets;latches for cabinets, refrigerator, toilet bowl;rounded jaws for sharp furniture corners, false seals that cling to the doorway, creating a kind of arena from the room and much more.
Describing the issue with the coating for the children's room, you can recommend the advice of professionals to use linoleum with a bottom-insulated base. Such linoleum is warmer in the first, and secondly, which is most important for crumbs, which is bad on the feet, is softer.
The decoration of the walls of the children's room also includes some tricks. The main difference is a specialized finish of 1 meter from the floor. The kid will walk, touching the walls, leaning his back on the floor, etc. Considering this, the walls on 1 m from the floor should be finished with a material resistant to contamination and most importantly warm. Such criteria are suitable materials such as velor wallpaper, a variety of films or panels( fabric or wood base).
Given that for us as a parent the main priority of our child's safety is that it is necessary to consider the following factors:
- toys and furniture should not have sharp corners;
- sockets should be protected with plugs;
- in the interior of the room, you must avoid or hide heavy objects, which at the same time are unstable( table lamps, floor lamps, vases and flower pots, etc.);
- it is necessary to check the stability and fixing of the furniture itself, you need to exclude the possibility of tipping or falling during attempts to crumbs to study the contents of shelves, cabinets, racks and other;
- curtains and curtains should be short, for example, up to the length of the window sill, the kid should not jerk them or get tangled;
- locks and latches on the windows should be either with child protection, or open with an effort that is beyond the strength of the baby.
What items should be present in the nursery?
From the age of four, your child will begin to feel the area granted to him as a sovereign territory, which is why it is better to discuss the interior with the child, or taking into account age-related wishes and recommendations. The main thing is, the room should be light, warm with bright wallpaper. On the floor it is desirable to use either carpet, or insulated linoleum. Doing expensive repairs and buying expensive furniture at this age is not entirely appropriate and economically not profitable. A crumb wants to paint, tear off, do something that can not be done to assess the reaction of the parents. Hence - a minimum of furniture and inexpensive repairs. Let's try to decide what should be in the nursery.
An indispensable attribute of any children's room is of course toys. However, filling up the child with toys, do not forget about repeated warnings of psychologists: toys and their number should in no case exceed a certain limit, so that the child is not lost interest in them. Part of the toys is better to hide and not show the baby for the periodic update of the "assortment".Toys can also be divided among themselves into 3 groups according to the method, or rather, if possible, of their storage. The first can include any toys that are convenient to store in boxes or, for example, boxes. The second group includes "interior" toys, that is, for example, soft toys that can be placed on shelves or beds to decorate the room. In the last group you can add toys that are hard to find a standard storage space and will have to look for another, personal. This can include, for example, large overall toys.
Also an important part of the children's room are books. To store books, you can, for example, hang on the walls of several bookshelves.
When entering your children's room directly in the doorway itself, you can install a swing.
Also mandatory attribute of the children's room is a music center with records of favorite fairy tales, children's songs or just classical music.
A practical and feasible acquisition will also be a children's table with a height-adjustable worktop( in the set of such tables, there are usually several sets of different in height legs).The initial height of your table should be about 50 cm. To the table you will naturally need a chair, the basic requirements for a chair are light weight and resistance to rollover. At once it would be desirable to dissuade you from buying chairs with moving rotating seats, such chairs have a high probability of traumatizing your child.
In addition to the table for games and drawing, you must in advance provide a special vertical surface for similar purposes, since all children are very fond of drawing on the walls. In principle, you can purchase a special drawing board in children's shops, but it's easier to get out of this situation. To the wall or door, fasten a piece of old wallpaper or Whatman, and you already have a place for creativity. In case of painting your favorite wallpaper, do not rush to scold the child, because the cost of wallpaper can not be compared with the creative impulse of your little Rembrandt.
In the preschool period, consider that the baby's activities will begin to acquire a more creative character, this will begin to be expressed in the primitive design, drawing, dismantling and picking up of toys, the games will begin to have meaningful action, and the child will accordingly need more and more space to place drawing supplies, toys, design kitsetc. In this period of development, the main elements for furniture are racks, shelves, boxes and so on. When you make furniture, take into account also one, but very important point: boys need much more shelves than girls, dolls after all can live a family, but cars or planes will require you to "personal" space.
The most rational and convenient solution is the combination of shelves and drawers into a single sectional system. Such a furniture system can be continued without any special difficulties by the method of rearranging the shelves together with the child's growing and changing the sphere of his interests. Shelving furniture sections do not necessarily have to be placed along the walls, you can use them as distinctive partitions between the functional zones of your children's room.
All children grow quickly and sooner or later the period will begin when your crumb, recently creeping and gaily agucing, will go to school. The main feature of the room for the student is a desk. During your schooling, your child will grow by an average of 55-60 cm, take into account that his desk is required to "grow" with him, in other words your desk should be able to increase the height of the tabletop from 50 to 75 cm from the floor level. The optimal length of the working surface of the desk should vary from 90 to 120 cm, while the width of 50 to 70 cm.
The writing desk should be placed near the window, and the light should fall on the table on the left side. The best material for the desk or at least for the countertop is a finely embossed plastic, the surface should be matte and better than dark. The corners of the desk should be chosen rounded, and the ends of the table top with edging. A successful choice of a desk with an adjustable tabletop angle, with an inclination of 11-16 ° is much more convenient to write.
Necessary changes when sending a child to school
In the room of the child-schoolboy there should also be shelves and shelves for books, textbooks, albums. Optimum also the presence in the desk drawers for school supplies. Note also that the high school student's desk will be significantly different from the primary school student. To begin with, your child will have enough desks and high chairs, they can be easily cleaned and moved if necessary. A high school student, in turn, needs a full-fledged table, which has to concentrate serious work.
Sooner or later you will face a problem, or rather with the need to purchase for your student a personal computer for which you will need a computer desk. In principle, the computer can be located on the desk, but think about how much useful work space you will lose. A computer desk is more practical to place on the left side of your desk( if your child is left-handed then to the right).At the indicated angular placement of the written and computer table, the displacements between them will be minimal, while the action sector for the main working hand of the child is maximal. Also you can use wide, angled computer desks on which there is a special additional working space on the side of the computer for writing or other work that does not require a computer.
The schoolboy's chair should, like his desk, be adjusted in height. Ordinary non-adjustable chair is not suitable here especially in combination with a table, which adjusts the table top. Take into account the fact that not only the seat of the chair, but also the back, should change, and it is desirable that the backrest also had an inclination angle. The pedestal of the chair must necessarily be longer than the seat and have at least 5 foot-consoles.
It is especially important to focus your attention on the issue of lighting a children's room, take into account that dim or, on the contrary, too bright illumination can later appear negatively on the child's vision. When choosing lighting, in the opinion of professionals it is better to stop on a ceiling lamp with reflected or scattered light. Many children are afraid of the dark, so the night sconce will not be superfluous in the children's room. It is also important to properly illuminate your child's workplace. To the left of the child( for the left-hander on the right), it is necessary to install a high-quality table lamp, the lamp should be direct light. A table lamp of direct light will help you evenly illuminate the whole working surface of the desk.
Furnishing a teen's room is quite a challenge. Very often, a teenage child will have an opinion on the arrangement and is unlikely to want to listen to yours. The main requirement for the interior of teenagers is the "adult spirit" in the interior to replace the "kindergarten".To your child a teenager is not embarrassed before his friends need to change the interior of his room. The main need for a child of this age is a place for guests. Friends will come to him, and he is obliged to place them easily in his room in his "personal" space.
there will be several children, then you need to make a room with everyone in mind. How to equip a room for your kids!?
Content of the article:
Arrangement of the children's room
Functionality is the main quality of the children's room
Zoning of the children, why is this necessary?
Beds for babies or preschool children
Location of furniture and children's things
What items should be present in the nursery?
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