Use children's tents to create a solitary space for children

A few days ago, when chatting with a friend, she suddenly asked: "Why do children have a soft spot for small tents?"

It turns out that her 3-year-old daughter has been thinking about it since she visited the small tent of her friend's house. The child talked about not only putting herself in the tent, but also inviting all her baby dolls into the tent, as if starting to dream of building a small world.

My friend hesitated a bit. Her house was originally small, so putting a small tent in it was really crowded. Seeing her worrying look, I felt the same way. Looking back on that year, I was also struggling and convinced myself in every possible way to finally set up a tent for my son. However, I found that this tent is far more than a tent for children!

The son was ecstatic. The small corner that occupies a square seemed to be his secret base. Without his permission, we could not even look inside.

Every child needs a space to be alone. A tent, separated by a distance, can bring children a spiritual world of peaceful time.

Children need to be alone. Just like a painting, if there is no blank space, it will be full of suffocation; like a song, if there is no space for the melody, the passionate lyrics will only be boring.

The impossibility of arranging children’s lives will eventually lead to: children have no chance to learn how to arrange their own lives, they rely on others to arrange their daily lives since childhood, resisting but powerless, unhappy but unsolved. Because children have never been alone since they were young, children have been afraid of being alone since they were young, and they can't spend peaceful moments with themselves at ease.

What does a small tent mean to children? In fact, what children are obsessed with is the feeling of being surrounded by tents. This sense of attachment establishes an emotional connection from the time the child is still in the mother's womb.

In the infancy after birth, children like to be hugged tightly. As it grows slowly, from mother's arms to father's arms. As they move freely, children are curious about all the small holes and gaps. They like to drill holes, be rolled in soft sheets, hide behind curtains, under a table, or even in a closet.

This feeling of being surrounded tightly fascinates the child because it can bring the deepest sense of security to the child. The security of childhood is the courage and confidence of a child to face the world in the future.

The real sense of security is not the sense of dependence. It can be a tent, or a small corner that parents cleaned up for their children. All you need is a soft carpet, a comfortable pillow, a soft light, and place it on the child’s bookshelf and child’s toy box. This "one square meter" world opened up will become the best place for children to get a temporary rest both physically and mentally.