Toddler Bunk Beds

Toddler’s rooms shouldn’t be designed just for toddlers. Today parents need to realize their comfort is important also, and that’s being seen in today’s toddler’s room designs. Parents are designing small children’s rooms that have more up to date colors that grownups enjoy, while adding furniture that’s practical for them, as well as the little ones during those scary nightmare nights or illness. A content parent makes a makes a content child, so create a room that suits your needs as well. One way to accomplish this goal is to purchase a toddler bunk bed. Toddler bunk beds give the parents a place to sleep while the toddler is getting over the illness or the nightmare.

Many of today’s parents are concerned that their kids will try to scale the bed frame, or push up on the top bunk from the bottom bunk to see how it’s connected, or bounce up and down on the top bunk because there’s no room to do that on the bottom bunk of toddler bunk beds. Some of these concerns are justified, a recent report from the Journal Of The American Academy Of Pediatrics concluded in a study from 1990 thru 2005 approximately 500,000 children were treated in USA emergency rooms for bunk bed related injuries and of that 60% were boys and 50% occurred at schools were bunk beds are used. Below are some tips for buying and using toddler bunk beds.

Safety Tips For Toddler Bunk Beds

• Guardrails should be installed on both sides of the upper bunk, with no gap larger than 3.5 inches between the mattress and the rails.
  
• Find beds with safety rails that have vertical and horizontal rail supports.

• Make sure correct mattress slats are installed to be certain the mattress doesn't slip. A slipping mattress can cause a space between the mattress and the guardrails on toddler bunk beds.

• Kids six and under should not sleep in the top bunk.
  
• Any horseplay on bunk beds, and most importantly on the top bunk, should not be tolerated under any circumstances.
  
• A night-light should be used to aid children navigate the ladder better in the dark room.
  
• There should be no objects on the floor around the bunk bed.
  Make sure when positioning the bunk bed that it is clear of ceiling fans and light fixtures or any other item that is attached to the ceiling that a child could reach.

In closing I would like to point out that toddler bunk beds are an excellent space saving alternative for small rooms, and are safe when common sense prevails, but if you can’t overcome your concerns, you should look into convertible toddler bunk beds, this is were the bunks can be separated into two beds and then can be placed one on top of the other when the child gets older, or when you feel more comfortable.