Typical modern children’s bedrooms have all the state of the art items once confined to the living room. There is a TV, DVD player, CD player, games system and many other electronics in children’s bedrooms. It’s not much of a punishment to be sent to your room these days. As a matter of fact it can be considered as a reward if you really think about it. Can you image your mom screaming and telling you to go upstairs in your room. Big deal. Punishment today can be only if your mom sends you to mow the lawn.

When I was a child, my bedroom used to be a place I slept in or was sent to if I’d been bad or naughty. I tried to spent as less time in my bedroom as possible. My bedroom had a wardrobe, a bed, a desk, a set of drawers and a chair. When I became a teenager, my mom let me to put up a few posters of my favourite bands and my idols. Now days, children’s bedrooms are big business. There’s a whole industry in designing furniture, rugs, murals, wallpaper, and bedding. Philosophy and child psychology are also playing a big part.

Designing children’s bedrooms comes with a lot of advice on color co-ordination, themes for the bedroom, and efficient storage systems. You have to be some kind of magician to fit all those things and gadgets into a small bedroom, and there are a variety of different storage boxes and systems to choose from. Nicely decorated boxes may even encourage them to tidy up every now and then. But if you are a parent you shouldn’t get your hopes up if you know what I mean.

Of course, children do keep evolving, which is really inconvenient. Just when you’re admiring your handwork on the jungle animal theme, complete with hand drawn stencils, your child has reached teens age and is demanding something more grown up, like a re-creation of Ozzy Osbourne’s or Rolling Stones latest album cover.

If you have two siblings who share a bedroom than it’s a good idea to make two distinct areas for them. It gives them more of a sense of ownership. For example you can have half of the children’s bedroom covered in butterflies and other half plastered in balloons. This is just an example that popped out of my head right now, but you can do whatever you or your kids wish. I am sure that both kids will be very happy with it. It’s even more important for twins, who are desperate for a separate identity.

There is even guidance on Feng Shui for children’s bedrooms, tempting perhaps for parents of hyperactive children who are desperate for them to be at peace with the world. I’m not sure about Feng Shui being the answer but I do think children’s bedrooms should be haven of peace. I think there are too many distractions in children’s bedrooms now days. How can a child do his homework or even go to sleep when they have unlimited access to their favorite TV programs or they’re trying to reach the next level on their game. Some have even computers in children’s bedrooms. Kids are staying up all night playing video games if someone isn’t watching them. Some kids live in their rooms, only coming down to say hello to their parents. As well as living in a fragmented family and never seeing them, you don’t know what is going on in their live. You don’t know whom they’re chatting to on the Web. In this stressful world, children’s bedrooms should offer a quiet refuge, to think, to read and to sleep.

Think good in which way will you decorate your children’s bedrooms.