If someone had told me before I became a father that I would end up sleeping with my three children in the same room, everyone in a fifty meter bed with another seventy-centimeter townhouse would have told him "not to fuck" and to devote himself to something else , that humor is not his forte.
But look, that's how we ended up, five in the same room, and thus we would have continued if it were not because the little boy woke up the elder with his cries and awakenings. Something similar happened to this family, a couple with five children, who were totally overwhelmed with their children, waking up all at night because they did not want to be alone and eventually created this amazing "colecho room" to finally be able to sleep all together and at ease.
They travel a lot and, when they travel, they sleep together
Many people see the image and say "Uaaa, I love it, what a room envy" (I am one of them) and many people say "But what the hell! Why do they do that?", Because they probably think they have done it to get attention, to show that they are better parents or something like this: "well, I love them so much that I sleep with them" or that they have done it forcing children to sleep like this: "I know you would want to sleep in your room, but no, we have to sleep all together. "
The reality of this couple is the same as we have experienced many couples with children: they did not want their children to cry at night for something as banal as sleeping alone or accompanied. For many people it is important that their children sleep alone, but in reality it is not, because as we explained a few months ago when talking about Japanese culture, independence and autonomy is not something that is achieved at night, but by day .
In their case, they tried to ensure that each child slept autonomously in their bed, in their room, but what they achieved went to the badge when they traveled and slept all together in a caravan or in a hotel room. They were coming home and so they didn't want to be alone, but wanted to continue sleeping together as on vacation. And that happened every time they traveled, which was often. They opted for the most logical, always sleeping like this, all united, to avoid those continuous fights, cries and struggles with those who would have achieved their goal until the next trip, when it would be time to start again.
His room soon became famous
They decided to share the solution they had devised to sleep with their children and were surprised to see, the next morning, more than 30,000 visits to their photo on Facebook. That same day, at night, the number amounted to 175,000 and positive comments and critics followed each other. Some so severe and sharp that a few days later the mother saw herself recording a video justifying herself in tears.
Let's analyze the colecho room
People told them that they were abusing their children, that it was not normal what they were doing with them, by not providing their own beds in their own rooms and she, who will not be very used to such an avalanche of criticism, decided to explain. But I still think that this room is a real past, and I would have loved to have it as a father, but still I would have loved to have her as a child. Can you imagine that being small your parents would have created something like this to be able to sleep together?
As you see in this sketch, they decided to join two bunk beds of IKEA, leaving the lower space of each one free and creating in the middle the space for a large central bed. In the upper bunk beds two of the children sleep, and in the space below, two more, which have their respective lights on the upper bed base. This is the central part for the couple with the smallest of the family.
The best? That you see the photos that the family published so that you get an idea:
