Climbing on/jumping off couch and kid furniture... do you let you let your kids?

[little_O]

I think the respect thing is that the furniture belongs to the family and they need to treat it like such. I feel it's important for children to learn to respect other people's belongings and treat things nicely.

Respect is so lacking nowadays whether it be for a persons own self or for other people and propety that DH and I believe it starts with the little things at home.

We're the same as Teeki. Dd has learnt she can stand herself up on her little plastic chair, but that's not the use for the chair and its dangerous so if she does it now it goes away.

[meow]

I guess I see jumping off the couch and breaking it as different things so I don't see jumping as disrespectful to property