i mentioned to my dad that the lads were getting bunkbeds soon and he said oh good, my brothers and i had triple decker bunkbeds. i said did you ever fall off? he said "no but your uncle charles fell off every single night for a year which is why he's like that"
But he built SO much character!
Do not show this skeet to @cpsc.gov !
I slept on the top bunk from ages 4-12 and only fell off once that I remember. Luckily we had a very small room with too many stuffed animals and it was a soft landing.
good thing the girls got their own private rooms and by the time richard was born my dad was away in college because i think falling off a six level bunk bed would actually crack your skull
if any of you knew charles you would instantly know that he is indeed "like that" he's the only person i've ever met who has provoked a nun until she punched him. knocked his tooth out and he has a gold one there now
why didn't my dad or christopher simply switch beds with charles so he could be on the bottom bunk...
Alphabetrization?
It’s funnier that way though!
My younger brother insisted on the top bunk until about the 6th time he fell off. Maybe he would've given up sooner if we hadn't had the "twin top bunk, full lower bunk" style. It's probably why I can't get to sleep unless I'm on the edge of the bed though
Please tell me you’re not making this up
indeed i am not
I lost a tooth rolling out of the top bunk at camp.
When very young I was introduced to the monster 'Ou Platkop', a creature as thin as a shadow who sneaks through the gaps in the window to hide under beds and if you stick a limb over the edge will drag you under and away. I have incredible sleep-proprioception, never fallen out of a bed in my life
No one ever fell out of bed (much) when graduating from the crib when i was a kid but we did have an antique chamber pot that saw a lot of use for one of us siblings to mitigate b*d w*tting
More things should be made out of enamelware— you’d think a chamberpot would be stinky but if you’re on top of cleaning up it’s waaaay nicer than the plastic commode situations I have dealt with caring for elders
lmao
My dad shared a bed with four brothers and he was the youngest so he slept in the middle. He fell off the top bunk his first week of boot camp because he'd never been near the edge of the bed before lol
My thought is if one doesn’t fall out of a regular bed, why would being higher change that? The sleeping body somehow doesn’t roll out of bed, normally. It’s kind of wild that even asleep we roll around the bed but not off
they say kids don't develop the sleeping sense of where the edge of the bed is for quite some time but the lads have always had floorbeds, they never had cribs, and they haven't rolled off their beds since they were like 4 months old
And most bunk beds for kids have rails. Though my friend jumped off my bunk bed when we were 8 Broke his arm
the ones we're getting for the lads are very short, even if they fell off the very top onto the carpet they wouldn't be able to break anything. they're like half scale
We just got bunk beds for our boys (3/6). The bottom one is on the floor and the top one is not that high and has a solid wood railing. Working great so far. Picture is from when we built them.
Whenever you mention ‘the lads’ it reminds me of the year we did magnum p.i.’s Ferrari for soapbox derby and the guy on our team who played Higgins didn’t break character until the after party was over
Bunkbeds are so fun!
we were thinking about putting a kind of fabric enclosure around the bottom to make it a playhouse during the day?! with little windows and doors?!
Yes! Both me and my brothers and my kiddos used sheets/blankets to make little forts with the bottom bunk. The lads would probably enjoy that.