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This has to be a joke. Of course my so. Can have postwrsa and he currently has several. Star Wars, a solar system map, a map of our state and some others.
I had heavy metal posters and bikini ladies all over my room when I was a teen, and I won't deny my kids the right to do similar with their own rooms. At their current ages it is not practical because my middle son who is autistic tears down all posters he sees. I am hoping that is just a phase though.
Mine decorated their own rooms from an early stage.
Posters, bedding, paint color, etc.... their room, their choice.
Both my daughters are grown, but youngest went through a Tim Burton phase in her early to mid-teens. Her walls were papered with Nightmare Before Christmas themed posters, sheets, bedspread, etc. When her older sister moved out, she took over her (larger) room and we offered to redecorate it for her for her birthday. First, she wanted it all BLACK, including the walls and carpet. I said no, but we compromised. We found her a nice used black lacquered bedroom set and she picked out black curtains and a grey carpet, then we painted the walls grey and pearl with a double textured roller to look like stone. When she outgrew the "goth" phase, she ditched the Nightmare Before Christmas theme and black curtains and switched to lavender. It had a nice effect with the grey walls and carpet and black furniture.
Oldest grandson is into Thomas The Tank Engine and trains, big time. His walls are plastered with posters of Thomas, Percy, etc. and a steam train print he got last Christmas. He has Thomas bedspreads and sheets, and a Thomas toddler bed that he is rapidly outgrowing...when the time comes to pass it on to his little brother, there's going to be a fight.
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I had heavy metal posters and bikini ladies all over my room when I was a teen, and I won't deny my kids the right to do similar with their own rooms. At their current ages it is not practical because my middle son who is autistic tears down all posters he sees. I am hoping that is just a phase though.
I'm sure it is just a phase, and he will outgrow it.
I had posters cut from Tiger Beat all over my room. David Cassidy, of course (not doing so well, sadly). My dad thought he was a girl! But he gave me The Partridge Family Greatest Hits album for Christmas 1971, which I still have and treasure. Those posters were replaced a couple of years later by Elton John (ripped them all down when I was 15 and found out he was gay); KISS, which horrified my mother (especially the wall length glow in the dark one which showed Gene Simmons spitting blood). I also had a poster of "The Fonz" that I did catch her looking at quite a bit, although she never said anything bad about it!
I remember now, youngest daughter had a "Happy Bunny" poster on her wall with every rude saying he/she/it (or whatever it was) ever made. "I hear the other yucky people calling you...", "It's funny how you think I'm listening".
Oldest had "Hanson" posters plastered all over her room. Remember them? When I tease her now about "Hanson", now, 20 years later, she's embarrassed.
my 8 year old has her walls covered with posters of cats, pokemon, dogs, Monster high, art work, streamers etc etc. We encourage her to decorate as she sees fit. Its nothing some spackle can't fix if we moved
12-year old: the periodic table, another one referencing chemistry, a distorted artsy map of the world, an inspirational message poster.
10-year old: about 2 dozen cat and dog posters, a map of the world with the Titanic's route marked off, another Titanic poster, Totoro, Star Wars themed posters, Harry Potter themed posters, anti-patriarchy themed posters, Girl Scouts, karate, other movie posters.
My almost 17-year-old son doesn't have posters. I don't know why not. I guess he just isn't interested. He has trophies and things like that displayed. When he was much younger, he had a few Transformers and Star Wars posters.
My 14-year-old daughter has a few posters and has painted a big anime mural on her wall. She has other decorative things, too, including her own paintings, a bulletin board with various things, etc.
I have no care whatsoever what they decorate with in their rooms. When they move out, we can always paint the walls back to neutral.
As a teen in the early '90s, I had posters of the two Coreys, NKOTB, Aerosmith, and I don't even remember what else. We had ugly fake paneling on our walls and my parents wouldn't let me paint over it, so posters were the best I could do.
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