I want to tell you about the most common mistakes parents make.
The first and most common mistake parents make is looking for children's room interiors in magazines, at neighbors' houses, at friends' houses, or in movies.
Searching for appealing interiors is not inherently bad. Searching and finding inspiration is always welcome!
But mindlessly transferring a children's interior you saw at a neighbor's house into your child's room is fundamentally wrong and can lead to various unpleasant consequences.
After all, your Dasha is not your neighbor's Masha and never will be. And although some children are more alike than others, they are all very different! There isn't one similar child in the world; every child is unique, and this uniqueness is what needs to be studied first and foremost!
— What is your little one like?
— What do they like to do?
— Are they active?
— Do they prefer to observe what's happening or to act?
— Do they calm down quickly after active games? And so on.
Observe, note, and analyze what your child needs in their room and what should not be installed there.
For example: a story from my practice
A mother of a child, let's call him Gleb, contacted me. She really wanted her large, slightly overweight child to be active. Having seen climbing walls in many children's interiors, she decided it would definitely help her child and installed a climbing wall in the children's room.
As you can imagine, Gleb didn't even look at that wall.
In fact, this is a typical case with such walls. Many people install them, and very few children actually climb them. In most cases, these structures just take up space in the children's room. It's a piece of sports equipment, and children themselves don't know how to do exercises. You need to engage with children and teach them how to do various useful exercises. Otherwise, only a few will climb the ladder and learn to climb the rope.
So what to do? After all, Gleb's mother had a good idea to get the boy moving and make him agile and active. The solution in such a case is to create motivating objects and a space that will encourage the child to move on their own.
For example, make a bunk bed so the child climbs up stairs and descends, for example, by a vertical ladder, or a rope, or slides down a slide. If the child loves to go down a slide, they will go up and down numerous times a day. You can build small tunnels that the child can crawl through, simultaneously pushing a toy car or a whole toy train.
It works, it's been tested!
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