by Wilda Quigley
Finding great bedding for children can be a harder than one might think. When you want something for your own bed, there is a lot of great stuff out there, but I have found that when it comes to my daughters stuff, I have very little from which to choose. I wanted to get my daughter new sheets and a comforter for Christmas this year, and I had a hard time finding anything that I liked.
Happy is that mother whose ability to help her children continues on from babyhood and manhood into maturity. Blessed is the son who need not leave his mother at the threshold of the world’s activities, but may always and everywhere have her blessing and her help. Thrice blessed are the son and the mother between whom there exists an association not only physical and affectional, but spiritual and intellectual, and broad and wise as is the scope of each being.
—Lydia Hoyt Farmer (1842–1903)
It would seem that when you are looking for bedding for children, you had better want character themed stuff or you aren’t going to find much. This has been what I have found anyway. I don’t have a problem with that so much, but now that my daughter is five, I want her to learn to develop her own personality without relying on something else to say who she is. She loves quite a few different children’s shows, and they have a part in her life, but I didn’t want to get her bedding for children that had Dora’s face, or a bunch of dancing princesses.
You can probably find more bedding for children options if you look online. You are not restricted by geography in this case, and you can find great stuff from all over the world. I found that the selection in the store to be so limited that I had to buy her something meant for must older girls, but at least it was pretty, and had many of her favorite colors in it. You can do this too, just know that what you get might be a bit too big for their bed. The ones I have for my little girl hangs on the floor on both sides, but once we get her a new bed next year, it will fit just fine.
The childless experts on child raising also bring tears of laughter to my eyes when they say, “I love children because they’re so honest.” There is not an agent in the CIA or the KGB who knows how to conceal the theft of food, how to fake being asleep, or how to forge a parent’s signature like a child.
—Bill Cosby (20th century)
When it comes to buying sheets, you do have to get the right size, however. If you have a toddler size bed for your child, you will have to find them in the store. Luckily, this type of bedding for children is much more common than the comforters or the pillow shams, and you can usually buy a basic color that will go with whatever else it was that you finally found. I have found that these are usually more common than anything else, and they are usually made to last with great materials.