Far Apart Sleepers: How Far Apart Bed For Preschoolers

(I have mentioned in a previous chapter how there is a recommended space for how far apart beds should be from each other and that most sleeping facilities have beds much close together than the recommendation. This Centre was no exception). I am a light sleeper and always have been, so I am glad was not put into situation like this as a preschooler.

We have all had bad experiences of staying over at someone else’s place for a few days and maybe as long as couple of weeks and getting very little sleep at all. It may have been because the bed was lumpy or the pillow was as too hard or too soft. Your room may have been close to the kitchen and the people you were staying with were used to getting up at the crack of dawn or going to bed really late. Whichever way it was your sleep routine was interfered with. It would have been such a relief to get home to your own bed. Imagine you a preschooler. You have to go to daycare where you will be required to have a nap after lunch. In the sleep room you not only find a mattress on the floor and no pillow but also discover that you have to share the room with a whole bunch of other preschoolers whose mattresses are crammed right up by yours. …show more content…
The teacher in the room shifts the child back onto their own bed. Someone on another bed starts singing. Again the teacher attends to the child and persuades her/him to sing in a whisper. Soothing music is put on and children start to go off to sleep. You start to get drowsy and are just dropping off to sleep when you here the door open and another child is bought in who is not keen on having a sleep, he is crying. You don’t make it to sleep. Another teacher comes in and helps settle things down before going back out. You actually fall