wheeeee!!!!!
In the words of that classic American song, freedom’s just another word for jumping on the bed. Okay, that may be a loose interpretation…but the concept is solid. This is freedom on a child’s scale.
Children have been jumping on beds since the invention of the box-spring mattress. Parents have been forbidding children from jumping on the bed since five minutes after the purchase of the first box-spring mattress. The natural urge of a child to jump and the natural instinct of a parent to forbid it sets up an interesting dynamic. It’s important for parents to forbid their children to jump on beds. It’s just as important for children to do it.
Kids don’t care about any of that. They jump on the bed for the best of all reasons. Because bouncing is fun, because bouncing is as close as children can get to flight, because bouncing is freedom.
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