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How the Design of Your Home Can Help Calm Your Rambunctious Children

Written by Posted On Friday, 02 February 2018 11:03
How the Design of Your Home Can Help Calm Your Rambunctious Children

Every parent knows that children can sometimes be a handful, but what most don't know is that the design of a home may be able to help calm them. As with many other things, the environment in which children live can have an effect on their behavior. The trick, however, is learning how to optimize the design of your home to help keep your kids a bit calmer. Here are three of the best ways to use home design to calm down rambunctious children.

Keep the Television in its Own Room

It's no secret that kids, given the opportunity, will watch more TV than is good for them. The problem often comes in limiting the amount of television they'll consume. A good way to do this is to keep the television in a separate room that is only used for the purpose of watching TV or movies. By keeping the television in its own room, you can keep your kids from indulging in too much viewing during idle time in your main living room.

 

The reason that this is important to calming children down is that excessive television has been connected to impaired cognitive development and may contribute to the development of ADHD symptoms. Having a specific room for watching TV lets you keep the convenience of modern television without having your kids sitting in front of a screen constantly.

Paint Kids' Rooms in Calming Colors

Believe it or not, specific colors elicit specific psychological reactions in all humans, including children. If you want to calm down very rambunctious kids, having their rooms painted in soothing, calming colors may help. Blue, for example, is helpful for calming and focusing, making it a good choice for kids who need help studying.

 

Green is similarly calming, but doesn't seem to have the same focusing effect. Because of the calming effects and general cheery brightness of the color green, it may be a good choice for helping to soothe anxiety disorders in children. If calming children down is your goal, try to avoid having too many pronounced reds in your home, as red is a color that actually stimulates children. Yellow is good for creating a cheerful, pleasant space, but is also associated with eye strain. As a result, it is best used sparingly.

Try to Incorporate Natural Elements

Just as a nature hike can calm an adult down, incorporating natural elements into the design of your home and your child's room in particular can help with rambunctious behaviors. One of the best things you can do is to put your child's bedroom in a room that has a window view of some kind of natural space. Even if it's just some green grass and trees in your backward, such a view can be very calming. If a natural view isn't an option for you, you might consider photographs or paintings of natural vistas that your child can look at instead.

 

Finally, you can consider putting indoor plants throughout your home. Studies have shown that having live plants around you can improve everything from stress levels to attention span. If possible, try to put at least one living plant in every room in your home. Though they will require care and regular watering, having living plants will benefit your hyperactive children and even help you keep your own stress levels under control.

 

These are just some of the ways in which you can use home design to have a positive impact on the behaviors of your rambunctious children. In an age where overactive children are often put on medication to regulate their behaviors, consider using these environmental alternatives to help your child be calmer and better-behaved.

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Jamison Hutton is a business and real estate enthusiast. He's a freelance journalist and loves writing about trends in the tech industry. He lives in Houston, Texas with his wife and son.

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