SARAH SHURETY'S FENG SHUI TIPS FOR THE
CHILDREN'S ROOM

Written specially for beaney.com™ by Sarah Shurety author of the best selling book "Feng Shui for Your home"

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Lots of clutter can make it difficult for your child to think clearly.
They can become easily distracted which will make it harder far them to find their vocation. If your child has lots of toys, books and clothes that they have grown out persuade them to take them to a charity or the local hospital. Encourage your child to get into the habit of letting go of clutter at an early age.

Babies and small children like to have a nice safe, square or rectangular shaped room and they like to have two sides of their bed including the headboard against a wall, this makes them feel more secure

The way the head of the bed is pointing is dependent upon the four pillars of destiny and the nine stars, but generally a baby should have his/her head pointing North or West with the feet pointing South or East to encourage a less interrupted sleep.

Teenagers should sleep with their heads South or East and their feet North or West to make them sleep less.

Teenagers benefit from irregularly shaped rooms. These shapes encourage them to be more experimental and adventurous and find their own identity.

The bed should not be situated under any over hanging feature. If the bed is under a beam, a slanted ceiling or a cupboard which crosses over their heads it will make it more difficult for them to get up in the morning. If there is a beam crossing over their body it will make that area weaker and more susceptible to illness.

The bed should be wooden and the headboard needs to be fixed firmly to the bed. All the bedding should be of natural materials.

A four poster bed is not generally recommended for children they will encourage your offspring to spend more time in bed, and can promote feelings of isolation.

Don't 'put your children in bunk beds. Not only is it very difficult to read a story, and to cuddle up comfortably when you are on a bunk, but the child in the bottom bunk is energetically cramped, and the child in the top bunk, over time, may become insecure and ungrounded.

If the bed has a window behind the headboard it can make the child quarrelsome. If the headboard is half against a window the child will feel less supported by one parent than the other.

Children should have a round bedside table with a reading lamp they can control as soon as they are old enough to promote good heath and prevent quarrels, and encourage reading.

Curtains are more suspicious than blinds. If you really want blinds choose the roller blind first, then horizontal and finally vertical.

If you are furnishing a baby's room don't hang a mobile over your baby's cot, certainly not over their heads, locate it nearer to their feet.

If a child's bedroom has a television or a video in it, it will make it more difficult for the child to sleep because the energy in the room becomes more activity orientated than sleep based. So keep the television in the sitting room or the playroom.

If you have the luxury of a playroom try and store nearly all their toy's there. Playrooms should be painted in bright colours to stimulate mental activity. But no strongly contrasting stripes.

Don't have vivid pictures on the pillow because the child can tend to loose their identity and they will have a less refreshing sleep.

At least one big plant to freshen the atmosphere which should have rounded leaves rather than spiky ones.

Encourage your children to personalise the doors to their rooms. These doors are their 'front doors,' to their houses. Research has shown that children who establish a clear identity onto their rooms adapt more easily into society.

Hang a spherical faceted crystal in the window to make them more creative.

A photograph with Mum and Dad holding their child in their arms looking very loving and protective close to the bed will promote a feeling of security. You may have to replace this photograph regularly since babies tend to kiss till they dissolve and need replacing!

Colours that are appropriate for each room depend the child's individual flying stars and four pillars of luck. Generally It is good to use quiet colours to promote sleep. Be careful of too much red. If you would find it difficult to sleep in this room so will your child.

Don't allow too many aggressive pictures, if you child is in their 'dinosaur' phase balance them with more warm, friendlier pictures.

Aggressive toys should be positioned so that they looking out of a window.

It is very reassuring for a child to have a poem written as a border at the top of the wall, saying something like "Once upon a time there was a tiny King who made everybody smile and he lived in a room as blue as the sky ( if the room is painted blue), and every night the stars and the moon looked down upon him and filled his dreams with happy Laughter".

Written specially for beaney.com by Sarah Shurety author of the best selling book "Feng Shui for Your home"

Published by Rider Books $27.95 and available from all good book shops.

You can e-mail Sarah Shurety at: Feng-shui.company@virgin.net

Copyright Sarah Surety 1998.