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From: rggoebel@water.UUCP (Randy Goebel LPAIG)
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Subject: Re: Crib to Big Bed advice needed
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 22:22:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 22:22:11 1985
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> I am curious if any one has suggestions about when to
> *introduce* a child to a normal bed- i.e. mattress and
> box spring.
> Our little girl is almost 30 months and with another
> due in march, I have already purchased a good quality
> twin, but have not put it up yet.
> The new baby will get her crib.
> The advice of periodicals and books is limited- and the
> advice of the few people we trust is limited to bias.

Our children are 2 1/2 and 4, and they've just recently switched from cribs
to futons on the floor of their room (they share a room).  Jodi is the 2 1/2
year old girl, and Kari is a boy.  We bought on futon for a test, as we have
a new baby coming and would need at least one of the cribs...we ``naturally''
assumed that Kari would use the bed, and Jodi would remain in her crib...you
can infer the rest;  Jodi insisted on being just like her brother, so we go
another futon and removed both the cribs.

The result is they both love it.  There have been a few nights when Jodi has
rolled off the futon with a clunk...but nothing that causes any lasting
effect. (I suspect it is harder for us, as we often lie awake awaiting the
tell-tale clunk of Jodi's head rolling to the floor.

We're not sure if or when we might move the futon mattresses off the floor to
a frame or some other structure off the floor.  The move to the crib has not
been at all traumatic, and it makes for more playroom.  

I don't have advice as a result of this experience, except that treating you
children as adults lacking experience means that you can just ask them what 
they think...that seems to be the best policy in our family.