jumping on my bed

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i love to jump on my bed i do it alot at night when i con't walk about the garden

but the adults hate it because it keeps them awake

Oh, how grand! I would have room to jump on my bed because the ceiling is too close and there is a fan in the way. What wonderful memories, though. Jumping on the couch, too Oh, I like hanging upside down on the couch and imagine I am walking on the ceiling!

I'm glad somebody brought up hanging on the couch. I like to do that though I don't associate ceiling walking with it. I also like to burrow my head in the gaps at the rear corners of the couch cushions. To posters who are more of jumpers, what if you got a mini trampoline, the kind they make for exercising? Sometimes they can be had for free when someone chucks it in the alley, usually though, thrift stores and flea markets have them for less than $20.

this post makes me want to jump on my bed right now. I'm reluctant to do so though because I broke my bed by jumping on it as a kid and didn't have a bed for awhile and I got yelled at A LOT!

I used do to that YEARS ago. Not anymore, obviously. XD

And the funny thing is, if you do get one of those exercise trampolines, it will then be entirely "normal" behavior even if you do it at night.

I second the idea of a trampoline. Jumping on the bed can break the slats under it or the frame itself. Not good.

i jump on my bed at night when its passed my bedtime so i con't go outside at like 11pm

and we do have a trampoline

You can get those little three feet wide ones that you keep inside in your room.

Honestly, if my kid kept jumping on their bed (after the age of maybe 5 or 6) and did it repeatedly at night even after being told not to, I would go in there and take the bed apart and just give them a mattress on the floor for the time being. Not uncomfortable to sleep on at all, but not at all bouncy. I'd think that your parents will probably eventually do that if you keep this up.

Also, you are keeping them awake. They probably work. Is your fun from jumping on your bed more important than their decent nights rest before they get up and go out to work to earn the money to not only buy things like beds and trampolines, but your computer, internet, food, clothes, etc? Have a little respect for others please.

If you are an older teenager or an adult and you choose to jump on your bed during the daytime when you aren't bothering anyone or keeping them awake, with full knowledge that you might break your bed and that if you do they will not replace it you will just have to deal with a mattress on the floor, then thats one thing. It's an entirely different story to keep them up at night to do it. It's rude, inconsiderate, selfish, and downright unacceptable to do something that isn't neccessary that you know will and does keep someone else up at night. How would you like them to continue doing something that disturbed your sleep or special interest etc, just because "they liked doing it"?

Stop it.

I am all in favour of the trampoline. I've got one and I use it every day to get that special feeling. It is great! Guess it's some kind of stimming?

Be careful with big trampolines though. My youngest son broke his right forearm, both bones completely in two, on one when he was in second grade. He simply fell on it wrong. He had to have surgery twice on it. That's of course when we found out he's allergic to strong pain killers. Luckily his pain tolerance is fairly high. He's the one that also broke his finger once, his hand another time (he took that cast off with a steak knife to go swimming two weeks early) and just cut the tip of his little finger almost off.

Yes, he seems to be accident prone at times. I wonder where he got that?

i live in a childens home so it annonys stuff

Whether they are staff or your parents, they are still entitled to respect. If it's keeping them awake and they sleep in staff, then they still need their sleep. Would you like it if they frequently interrupted something you really enjoy or needed by doing something that they just thought was fun?

You have to look at the issue here. Your enjoyment of jumping on your bed versus their decent nights sleep. Which do you think would be more important? You don't need to jump on your bed to be able to function the next day. You simply enjoy it. They need to sleep to be able to do what they have to do properly the next day. Yours is a want, theirs is a need. Human beings need sleep. It's not healthy to be constantly woken up, which they probably are frequently woken if they are staff there, but there is no need to keep them awake just to do something that you can do at another time.

Now if you said they don't like it because it keeps them awake and they are sleeping on the job when they aren't supposed to be sleeping, maybe supposed to be sitting awake at a desk or something, and you were being facetious about them sleeping when they weren't supposed to, I'd say to let someone know about them falling asleep at work. However if they are meant to sleep there, then don't make their job and next day any harder than it already may be by keeping them up at night.

I don't know how often you do this or how much it keeps them awake, but you may want to Google sleep deprivation and see what health and performance and mental consequences they could have because their sleep keeps getting interrupted.

The bottom line is that it's rude to keep someone awake without a true need.

Again, let me ask you this. Which do you think is more important? Your desire to jump on your bed and your enjoyment of it, or their need for a nights sleep and their performance the next day?

its so much fun and the most calming thing to do

at least you con't say I'm lazy :hehe:

Jumping up and down on the bed takes too much energy for a lazy person lol.

It may be calming to you, but how calming is it to people trying to sleep?

My issue with this is that you know you are keeping them awake, the people who need their sleep to do their jobs properly and their jobs directly effect you, and you are putting your own passing amusement ahead of their physical and mental requirement for sleep. That is wrong. It is. You cannot always put yourself first and usually you should not put your wants above someone else's needs. A want can be done without and not cause harmful effects to anyone. A need may be done without but someone suffers the harmful effects.

Please think about this and answer this one question. Do you think it's ok for you to deprive someone else of a physical need just because you think its fun?

I'm not being mean to you here, or trying to pick on you. I'm seriously trying to explain this to you and try to help you see the difference and see that what you are doing is not the right thing. If you tell me what about this that you don't understand, I'll be happy to try and explain it and tell you why it's that way. People can't be expected to automatically know things without someone telling them sometimes, and I'm happy to explain this to you and help you see how you should change your behavior on this one.