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Do you Allow your children run around inside the house?
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Anonymous
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If no, how and when did you set the rule? It is getting unbearable for me (the noise, danger and constant fear)...urg!
I need helpful advise I got 2 high energy boys under 6. If yes, how do you keep calm? |
Anonymous
| earplugs....release. |
Anonymous
| I don't allow my 5 year old to run around the house, and that rule started when he could run - around 2.5 y/o. In the beginning, it was just a stern "no running", around 4, I told him it was dangerous and he could bump into something so no running. I was consistent about telling him he couldn't run. It's not an issue in our house. |
Anonymous
| We encourage it to some extent in the winter when our kids need to blow off steam. |
Anonymous
| Our son is four and he is not allowed to run around the house, though we are fighting it constantly. I think it's just in his nature, plus he's always pretending to be playing some sort of sport that involves running. We also don't let him stand or jump on any type of furniture in the house or elsewhere. Though, I see so many kids whose parents allow them to do it that sometimes I wonder if we are the only ones. |
Anonymous
| My son is 3.5, and I have no problem with him running in the house. Never occured to me not to. I set limits when he's getting too unruly, but there is no "no running" rule. Agree w/ the PP who said she encourages it in winter. |
Anonymous
| No running in the living room (wood floors, breakables), dining room (wood floors, wine rack, not much space to run anyway), and kitchen (where there is a floor to ceiling window at one end), but ok in the family room, upstairs hall, and bedroom to bedroom. |
Anonymous
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I let my 2yo run around in the house. We don't always get to play outside, and I figure it's a good way to release energy. We don't have anything valuable that'd break and our basement is carpeted, so why not.
I wouldn't let him run in other people's houses, but at our house I'm okay with it. Maybe this will change as he gets older. |
Anonymous
| I completely let him run, but I've only got one. I'm sure the chaos is very much multiplied with two. |
Anonymous
| As a mom to 2 boys myself HOW do your active boys burn off steam? My boys are outside a huge portion of the day, but really are not into sitting still playing puzzles or coring more than a few minuets. I understand how parents of singletons can maintain control because there is no one to play with, but a 3 & 5yr old? I just could not imagine my boys walking around the house like little adults doing quiet games and toys. If figure they are boys and really just love to be physically active when they play. My boys are very physical...wrestling, racing, play sword fights, and climbing, I thought this is just what boys do and in a decade or so, I can bring out the china again. |
Anonymous
| They can run around only when they are not chained to their cages. What is this, a joke? of course kids run around. We regularly time races up and down our main hallway. I only care about the stairs - OK to slide down, not to run. |
Anonymous
you are cracking me up! Are you the poster with the excellent genetalia that could win awards? |
Anonymous
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We have a "loop" and when it was too snowy/cold to run around the house outside I would say "take a loop" and at one point I think my son counted up to 160+ loops.
Only running rule in the house is no running down the stairs! |
Anonymous
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Question for OP...
You have 2 boys under 6, so I assume they are preschoolers or one even in K. WHY are you having constant fear about them running in the house and sense danger? I can understand the noise getting to you and just the perpetual motion that boys seem to be in, but the fear you are describing. Do you think you might be having some excessive overblown anxiety? When my boys run around the house danger and constant fear are not emotions that go through my mind...normally I feel like I need ear plugs and want to get in bed under the covers. |
Anonymous
| 5 and 2 year old boys - they run and i run with them - it's fun! |