Emma has had a broken bed for some time. It is kind of hard to see from the picture above with the blankets on it, but the bottom half of the bed is sagging. They had broken the bed by jumping on it, and a couple of the slats broke.
The above picture is the bed with the mattress off. You can see she has been just stuffing things under the bed when we tell her to clean her room. I had been using Shakespeare to keep the mattress up, but they kept knocking things off. I had tried before to put the slats back in, but they kept breaking them. One of the 2 broken slats is now missing.
Today I got a couple of 2x2s, and made a couple of braces for the bed. The slats are screwed down to the braces. Emma's bed is now fixed. No more sleeping on a slant because she had knocked the books down. Unfortunately for her, I told her I wouldn't bring the bed back to her room until she cleaned up where it used to be. Now that the bed is there, she has nowhere to stuff things and actually has to clean up...
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