Can newborns and toddlers possibly remember how their parents decorated their rooms, once they have reached adult hood. While I do not think they did, I wish they had. I can state unequivocably that if you give a teenager a room decorated for an infant, that teen will remember that room for the rest of their lives. Here is what my room looked like when I was twelve and thirteen and fourteen and fifteen. Just a few months before my sixteenth birthday, we made the move at last. At that time (in 1964), no amount of foot stamping or sulking could make your parents re-decorate your room if they did not feel so inclined, at least in my family.
The room was decorated for a small boy sometime around World War II, I had the privilege of living in this room for three long years and seven months. Just like hospital rooms, green paint was used. Along one wall (most likely the location of the infant's crib, I shuddered always to think), the design of the peeling border was an old and faded locomotive motif. The train conductors cap had annoying French words on it that I knew by heart. They always popped up in my mind in French class, at school. My desk had to be placed in the corner of the room as a result of the rooms design. (a desk is about the size of a baby's crib). As I did my homework, I was forced to gaze at the flaking beige locomotive while its conductor smiled at me from the train car. He had a red kerchief tied round his throat and wore some kind of striped blue uniform. Is it possible that brat can remember the room as clear as I do? Once again, I do not think so.
The window frames of the two large windows in the room were painted red - a horrible, orange-red that clashed with the sickly green walls. The curtains were matched with them. I will forever be grateful that those drapes were so worn out and faded that I didn't need to endure them for too long. Holding a stick I don't know the name of that toy,they were made of a red cotton fabric with a print design of little boy figures all wearing blue sailor suits and knee-high white socks and running behind some kind of wheel. The little boys were also all grinning as madly as the train-conductor, and I hope they made the baby boy in his crib smile or fall asleep right away or something. I actually felt like slapping them.
I came home one afternoon and the curtains were gone. Surprisingly they were thrown out by my mother. She had them replaced with curtains that weren't ripped or faded. If I remember correctly, they were made of fabric that was striped green and white. I remember the firsts set of curtains in the baby room better than I remember their replacements.
When I had my own children years ago, I did not decorate their rooms. I waited until they were old enough to tell me how they would like the room to look, which didnt work out too well either because my two sons shared a room. However I listened to them anyway. The six year wanted bright red walls the colors of his favorite soccer club. He got one bright red wall, by his bed. The boy, 11, asked for orange walls decorated with posters of professional basketball players. I think it may be the Utah Jazz.. He received an orange-colored wall and poster pictures. The two remaining walls remained in their original color white. It was probably the most hideous rooms I had ever seen, but my sons were happy and they werent embarrassed to have their friends come over. - 15359
The room was decorated for a small boy sometime around World War II, I had the privilege of living in this room for three long years and seven months. Just like hospital rooms, green paint was used. Along one wall (most likely the location of the infant's crib, I shuddered always to think), the design of the peeling border was an old and faded locomotive motif. The train conductors cap had annoying French words on it that I knew by heart. They always popped up in my mind in French class, at school. My desk had to be placed in the corner of the room as a result of the rooms design. (a desk is about the size of a baby's crib). As I did my homework, I was forced to gaze at the flaking beige locomotive while its conductor smiled at me from the train car. He had a red kerchief tied round his throat and wore some kind of striped blue uniform. Is it possible that brat can remember the room as clear as I do? Once again, I do not think so.
The window frames of the two large windows in the room were painted red - a horrible, orange-red that clashed with the sickly green walls. The curtains were matched with them. I will forever be grateful that those drapes were so worn out and faded that I didn't need to endure them for too long. Holding a stick I don't know the name of that toy,they were made of a red cotton fabric with a print design of little boy figures all wearing blue sailor suits and knee-high white socks and running behind some kind of wheel. The little boys were also all grinning as madly as the train-conductor, and I hope they made the baby boy in his crib smile or fall asleep right away or something. I actually felt like slapping them.
I came home one afternoon and the curtains were gone. Surprisingly they were thrown out by my mother. She had them replaced with curtains that weren't ripped or faded. If I remember correctly, they were made of fabric that was striped green and white. I remember the firsts set of curtains in the baby room better than I remember their replacements.
When I had my own children years ago, I did not decorate their rooms. I waited until they were old enough to tell me how they would like the room to look, which didnt work out too well either because my two sons shared a room. However I listened to them anyway. The six year wanted bright red walls the colors of his favorite soccer club. He got one bright red wall, by his bed. The boy, 11, asked for orange walls decorated with posters of professional basketball players. I think it may be the Utah Jazz.. He received an orange-colored wall and poster pictures. The two remaining walls remained in their original color white. It was probably the most hideous rooms I had ever seen, but my sons were happy and they werent embarrassed to have their friends come over. - 15359
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