Talk About Bed Making

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My Secret Recipe for Teaching Kids to Make Their Beds

Bed making has eluded this family for years but now, finally, all five members are making their beds every single day! You might call it a miracle but I call it years of calculated planning and patience. Here is my fool proof method:

• Announce to your husband as soon as you get married that you want the bed made. Ignore him when he says that you never made the bed before he married you so why should you start now.


• Nag husband about making the bed for a year or so and then give up and live with an unmade bed. Note: I sleep at night but my husband most often sleeps during the day so I could make the bed all I wanted when I got out of it but it was never made by the time I got into it.


• Try again a couple years later and give up again.


• Have some kids.


• Religiously make their beds every day because you can and they will stay made.

• When the kids are old enough spend a couple years teaching and helping them make their beds.


• Figure that eventually they will want to and be able to do it on their own.


• Get over that fairy tale and start nagging them every day to make their beds.


• Give up nagging and start threatening. Do that for a few years.


• Take away all their covers and make them sleep on a cold mattress.

• Don't do that last one but think about it really hard for a while.


• Mention again to your husband that you would like the bed made every day and couldn't he please just straighten his pillows and pull up the covers on his side of the bed when he gets out of it.


• Be amazed that he actually starts doing this. Most of the time.


• Wonder why all of a sudden he doesn't toss and turn and mess up the bed covers like he used to.


• Let your kids make a new family rule that any child who forgets to make their bed before they eat breakfast has to make everyone else's bed the next morning.

• Sit back and enjoy having children that make their beds EVERY SINGLE MORNING all by themselves without being reminded!


• Wonder why all of a sudden your children don't toss and turn and mess up the bed covers like they used to.


• Pat yourself on the back for having such an excellent detailed plan and the fortitude to follow through with it for 12 years.

Alternate plan in case you have a Lovely living in your house.

• When your child is three years old teach her how to make her bed.


• Make it with her for one week.


• Now that she knows how to do it on her own, ask her to make it every day as soon as she gets up.


• Don't be surprised at all that she does it.


• Hug and kiss her every morning when she runs to tell you how pretty her bed looks.


• Repeat every day after her nap.


• Mommy lives happily ever after.


• The end.

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