DS desperately wants a bunkbed but I am too scared...

[Anonymous]

I'm with you OP. My kids always wanted one but I was too worried to ever agree to it.

[Anonymous]

This reminds me of the time we were visiting relatives when DC was about six, and the kids had piled pillows on the floor between two sets of bunk beds and were flinging themselves off the top bunk. We made them stop, and gave them a stern lecture, of course, but they were fine. I've never known of a kid falling off of a bunk bed accidentally.

[Anonymous]

DS is 7 and wants a bunk bed, and it's not the falling out that worries me, it's that he has a bad habit of vomiting at night, and I don't want to have to climb up there and change sheets. So we're going to look at a mid-height loft bed instead.

[Anonymous]

I don't trust my son's friends - they are 7 year old maniacs and I know they'd be flinging everything they could get thier hands on off the bunk.

[Anonymous]

There are staircase bunk beds now as well. We have one for our not very coordinated son. He got the bed at 6, after having taken a header off the IKEA little kid version at 5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of the time we were visiting relatives when DC was about six, and the kids had piled pillows on the floor between two sets of bunk beds and were flinging themselves off the top bunk. We made them stop, and gave them a stern lecture, of course, but they were fine. I've never known of a kid falling off of a bunk bed accidentally.

I have a set of stitches from falling off a bunk bed. I was climbing down the stiars and they had been knocked by the occupant in the lower bunk so they were no longer secure.