Bean bag chair

You can't sit on the bed together to read for all 3. But, you can sit underneath the loft area to read. We have a futon below it so we lay down there to read. And he sleeps down there too if we do late nights and carry him from car to futon. You can put a thick rug and lots of pillow as if to make it a cave. Put a small light there. You will have to lay down to read-kids got no problems with that but adults might. When it's time to sleep, he'll just climb up and say good night.


IMO, I can't stand the loft bed. My MIL INSISTED my son to get a proper bed and of course DH thinks the same...why does it have to be a freaking loft bed. Reasons I hate it:
-Climbing up there to put the damn sheets on there is difficult since lifting the mattress is hard. The bed is against the wall since the room is small.
-Do you think the kid wants to climb down and go to the bathroom in the middle of the night?! Nooo. Delaying my night training since he's still in pull ups at night.
-The sides seem to be hard (it is real wood) but if he has a nightmare and becomes a flounder, he might hit his head on the wooden side, which he has happened.
-When he gets older, we will still need to upgrade to a different bed by teens.

-And MIL gives him a full size blanket last year before the loft bed came into place. This blanket is so thick, he trips on it if not careful.

Sorry, that was just a vent. There are 3 reason I like it:
It has drawers and shelves to put his clothes and bed.
The wood actually look nice. And the #1 reason is my son LOVES it. But, I hate it--but it's not my bed.

Anonymous wrote:can you not read in the living room or something?

question answered - we were posting at the same time, I guess

can you not read in the living room or something?

Anonymous wrote:How about in your bed & then he moves to his when you are done reading?

Right now his baby brother is in our room and goes to bed much earlier. Otherwise this would work. We may end up just reading with him on the living room couch until his brother moves into his room (thus freeing up ours), though.

We've got stools and an IKEA chair that we dislike. Someday we may get some sort of padded bench, armless chair, or couch for his room. But so far, what we have works well enough.

How about in your bed & then he moves to his when you are done reading?

We set up a loft bed for 6yo DS this weekend, and have since realized it's kind of a pain to climb up and read with him at night. His room is pretty small (hence the loft bed) and we're looking for seating ideas for the floor that are both relatively inexpensive and can accommodate 2-3 people as DH and I like to both sit and read with him before bed. Ideas?