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How Choosing The Right Bedding Can Help Educate Your Child

Parents tend to choose colourful and interesting designs when purchasing bedding for their children.  Yet parents should also be taking into consideration the fact that bedding can be used to teach children about new topics.  Read on to discover how the varying themes of bedding on offer can help to develop your child’s understanding of their surroundings.

Animals

Most children have an inherent liking for animals and this makes animal themed bedding a popular choice.  It is possible that children are so responsive to animals because the sounds that they make are easier for them to copy then the words used by people.  Through teaching our children the sounds that animals make we provide them a platform with which to practice and thus improve the early stages of their speaking ability.

Colours

When your child has reached the next stage of communication and has begun to talk then it is time to introduce some colour to their bedding.  Choosing bed linen with a rainbow theme is an obvious choice and it also has the advantage that you could include the well known rainbow song to make the learning more fun.

Alphabet and numbers

Learning letters, words and numbers is the next step in your child’s development and this can be assisted by purchasing bedding that has these subjects printed on it.  We advise spending five or ten minutes last thing at night or first thing in the morning just going through the letters and numbers with your child; helping them memorise the characters.

Let them lead the way

As children progress out of the toddler stage they tend to begin to develop their own interests.  Pay to attention to the subjects that appeal to them and then buy some bedding that reflects these subjects.  One example of a subject that many children develop a liking for is dinosaurs, which you can run through with them on a morning or night as with the numbers and alphabet.