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Your home is a place in which you can relax and unwind. If you have lived in your home for a while, you can get used to its appearance and layout. This may be fine for you; however, if you are looking at welcoming children into your home, you need to make sure that your home is as child friendly as possible. When your home is child friendly, warm and welcoming, you can ensure that any children who visit or stay with you always feel content and happy. Here are some creative ways to create a child-friendly home.
Make It Magical
All of your home does not have to be dedicated to children, and it is important to have separate areas for grown-ups. However, you can focus on making the small spaces of your home magical. For example, you could add a magical tent to the corner of a living area, and give children who visit or stay their own magical space they can retreat to. Or, if the children are younger, you could add a fairy door (or magical door) to the room where the children will be sleeping, and you could sprinkle some fairy dust in the room just before bedtime. Soft lighting and fairy lights in the rooms where children play and sleep can help everything feel more magical.
Get Professional Advice and Guidance
When you are making a home more child friendly it is always useful and beneficial to gain advice and support where you can. For example, if you are looking at fostering children, you may want to visit thefca.co.uk to find lots of helpful tips and bits of guidance that can help you create safe and welcoming spaces. Similarly, you may want to consult friends and family who have children at home. Asking for feedback and guidance will ensure that you can make a home child friendly as quickly (and as easily) as possible.
Create Spaces For Shared Family Time
When you create a more child-friendly home it is important to create at least one space that allows you all to share some good-quality family time. Having time to share memories, thoughts and feelings with children are crucial to their emotional and physical well-being. Therefore, having a place that they know is safe and secure is crucial to their growth and development.
Provide Child-Only Spaces
As well as having spaces and places in which to regroup, it is also important to have child-only spaces (where no grown-ups are allowed). These spaces give children the chance to truly be themselves, the provide chances to experience freedom and independence. Children of all ages need time by themselves to reflect and develop.
As well as creating spaces, you also need to focus on adding a bit of colour and fun into your home (if there isn’t any already). Looking for a warmer colour scheme, and even introducing washable soft furnishings will help to make a space feel more child friendly, and ensure that it is a lot more fit for purpose.