Kidz Roomz

By Victoria Pendragon

“Alex can’t seem to sleep through the night,”  “Julie just won’t stay in her bed,”  “Tifonia has so many bad dreams,” “Alfred’s room is a pig stye, I swear you can’t even walk across the floor without tripping.”

            Kids.  We anticipate their arrival with such importance that their room is often ready for them months before they arrive…and then, at the other side of the pendulum swing, we may be anticipating their departure with such impatience that our future plans for the soon to be empty space eclipse our present tolerance for the current condition of the room.  Once children arrive in your domicile, you can expect the feng shui of your space to be just a little more lively then it was prior to their appearance.  Children of all ages are what we call fire energy.  Fire is bright and quick and usually demands attention.  Fire must be carefully tended, nourished to grow yet contained lest it grows out of control.

            The traditional nursery is a place of soft colors and cushioned cribs, perfectly suitable for the protective environment of the human infant.  Our own innate nurturing response to our offspring seems to generate the ideal feng shui for babies but, once those babies stat to pick the ________ up off the floor, many of us just seem to loose our minds.

            The progression of thought is easier to identify.  Once walking our children seem to be boundless repositories of energy.  Boundless balls of energy equal bright colors and vibrant images so many parents, feeling that they should resonate with this energy, decorate their young children’s rooms with light primary colors and fanciful murals further stimulating the already turned on energy of the child.  Won’t go to sleep at night?  Hmmm, I wonder why.

            If at all possible a child should have a play area that is outside of their room.  That area can be just as colorful and stimulating as you would like it to be, allowing the bedroom to be established as a place of peace.  If such an arrangement is not possible the bedroom should, ideally, be set up in such a way that toys can be tucked away, out of sight in the evening, recreating the room as a quiet space.

            Even for older children, study and activity areas are best established outside of the immediate sleeping area.  In a larger bedroom a screen or movable room divider might be used to separate the study area from the sleeping area.

            Images in the rooms of older children become very important.  Once having reached an age when a child knows what he or she likes, it is crucially important for parents to honor that child’s wish as much as possible, to having images that represent these likes in the bedroom.  The bedroom is, after all, the only space the child has any real claim to.  The room should reflect the personality of the child who inhibits it.  That said, certain images are simply not conducive to what we know of as good feng shui.

            Close ups of violent hockey clashes, images from horror movies, a depiction of high speed chases, for instance, are troublesome to the sub-conscience mind as they imply the stimulation of the fight or flight responses within the body.  Such stimulation is neither conducive to rest nor to a peaceful frame of mind.  From the standpoint of creating a feng shui compliant atmosphere, images such as the aforementioned would be impossible to place anywhere within the context of most homes, let alone in the bedroom of a susceptible young mind.

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