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Anyone's kids sleep on a Futon nightly ?
My son's room has the only access to our backyard. Its an odd shaped room with not much wallspace / walk thru space so when he needed a new bed, we decided that a Futon would make the room "convertible" for him (we can convert it to "couch" mode when we have guests and need to get thru his room out into the back, and just opens up the room / makes for a little more moving around space. - and if he wants when he's older (he's 10 now) he can fold it up when friends are over to hang out. The mattress it came with is "ok" but i figured when he's older / heavier, we could just get a better / thicker mattress.
At first I felt like it was a great idea (and I still think it is) but I wonder how many kids / teens or even adults out there sleep on a futon nightly. My son loves it and sleeps well, I just wonder ??? I am the only one that has their kid sleeping on a futon.
Hi, I'm writing as someone who spent most of her working life in teaching hospitals, and a lot of that in orthopedic depts, seeing the results of bad habits (among other things). While your son may be happy with his present set-up (kids bounce and can probably sleep on rocks temporarily), what it could be doing to him long term is questionable. It really is best to make sure children at least get the most 'right' things we can provide for them while we can, because that's generally all we can do, and making convenience the reason for not providing the best overnight support for them is really not ideal. Short term, it may not matter a lot, but beyond a few weeks, who knows what sleeping on a futon could do? I wouldn't take advantage of kids' easy-to-please attitudes (or bodies) if I had a choice.
I don't get why a futon would be worse than a regular mattress...and I certainly can't see why it would cause long term damage!
My DD has a sofabed (IKEA's Lycksele) with a nice firm mattress and memory foam topper and she's slept on it quite comfortably for almost two years. She wanted her room to be more like a living room during the day, so this works great for her. She opens up the bed to sleep and folds it back to a sofa in the morning. It's quite similar to a futon except it has a regular type of mattress.
The sofabed looks like this when covered (covers in various colors available)
and the frame looks like this
so you can see there is a lot of support under the mattress
The mattress is high density foam and it's held up great these past two years. We had company use her room a couple of times and they loved the way they slept on this mattress.
"except it has a regular type of mattress." - That's the point, it's not a regular mattress, and an adult sleeping on any type of bed for a night or two when visiting is not the same as a young person whose anatomy is not yet fully developed (and is subject to misalignment or generally less than ideal development). Please at least ask your MD about this - I have no personal stake at all in this, just trying to help.
Lightly - you can't take things out of context, and I'm not sure anyhow that most Japanese people today do use futons routinely (or for that matter whether or not they have problems). The point is that young people's bodies are not yet 'hardened' and if you do the wrong thing you live with consequences the rest of your life. It isn't as if most of us over 40 don't already have back problems anyhow - why encourage them any sooner than necessary?
futons, real cotton filled japanese ones, are very comfortable. they need to be aired weekly and rotated. also, you should put plywood underneath (don't just let it sit on the slats). i slept on one for several years and liked it very much. didn't like the frame, but loved the futon! i think it is MUCH MUCH better than a sofabed...
another option might be a murphy bed, have you seen that thread? kren
I don't know that they are, but anything that sounds to me like a temporary 'fix', or something without well thought out construction, which to me looks and feels like a (neat) pile of rags, just doesn't strike me as the ideal thing for growing people. I did say to ask your MD, pediatrician, orthopedic doc, whoever, and I'll say it again... aren't your kids worth being careful about?
I have 20+ years working for orthopedic surgeons (including one pediatric orthopod) and have never heard any of them say that anyone shouldn't sleep on a futon. As far as I know, it is a non-issue.
How do I know? I'm the transcriptionist. Chart notes are my life....LOL
Hmmm....you've spent your life in teaching hospitals...but not as a Dr., I presume.
Just wondering what YOUR credentials are for determining what "the right things" are for children.
BTW, my friend's children slept on futons for years. I've never heard that they suffered any negative orthopedic effects.
Wow you guys, I am the person who started this thread I never expected the response :) The mattress we have now is fine for a barely 70 lb boy (soaking wet) and is not composed of "rags"...but I do realize we will need to change it as he gets heavier :) All your opinions and comments are helpful, thanks :)
Have you thought about getting a trundle bed with standard mattresses? There are different sizes which wouldn't take up any more space then a futon.
Wasn't going to get into the conversation about "sleeping backs". But got to thinking about my kids growing up. We didn't have a lot of money back then and know they were sleeping on used mattresses for years. None have back problems and now in their 40s. One was was in the army for 8 years (including Desert Storm) and can sleep anywhere on a whim. Another worked in Antarctica for 5 years. Neither environment has much for beds or mattresses. I don't deny a good mattress, heck I have to have one.
Your suggestion to check with an MD was actually great and common sense advice and for all I know, you could be right that sleeping on a futon may not be good for kids. It's when you went on to insult a poster who gave her honest opinion ("Until you've got your MD, I'd wait until someone who has one has commented")that you went way beyond merely offering an opinion.
Sarcasm and sanctimony don't add anything valuable to the discussion.
Ok... explanation time! The other poster said she was a transcriptionist, and obviously felt she'd picked up a lot of info. on cases in her time. No problem with that at all, a little knowledge can be dangerous though. I've been in the same place as she was, moved up to senior sec'ty in neuro. research depts., and do know how much I Don't know... which is why I said to check with MD's. That's all! I wasn't being sarcastic, and if I did sound sanctimonious, it was because I have a problem with e.g. transcription people (medical or otherwise) thinking they have the answers because they processed someone else's work. So sorry!
I slept on a futon from college until I was nearly 40. Then a few years ago, my daughter wouldn't stop jump jump jumping on the spring mattress of her queen sized bed, so we ended up switching beds with her. (Not quite as exciting jumping on a futon!) She has been using a futon for several years now. My son also used a futon for several years, but when it needed to be replaced, he requested a spring mattress. Futons have been in use for centuries, and in this country for about 40 years. Don't know if there are any risks with them or not, but they do have a long history, so it may not be that hard to find out.
There are futons and there are futons. Some are thin and give little support, and some are very good.
As each of my three of my sons reached their mid-teens on we redecorated their rooms with double futons with good-quality mattresses which they used for years and which they then took with them when they moved out. (And which came back with the younger ones when they moved back, but that's another story.)
My oldest switched to a regular bed around ten years ago (still using his futon as a couch and guest bed after that). He has since been through at least two new -- and presumably top quality -- mattresses that didn't long meet his standards. And when we redid our small guest room/den and asked him what kind of bed to get since he'd be the one to use it most often, his recommendation was a futon.
I actually think Lucy's advice was solid. All she said was that she she doesn't think its a good idea and to check with a doctor. She did state that she didn't know for sure but I thought she gave good advice.
I have no idea if a futon is good or bad for your back. I find them personally uncomfortable but I would ask my Dr just to be on the safe side.
Oh thank you so much jyyanks! I too was uncomfortable on on the 2-3 I've ever tried, and while good ones might be just fine for most people, kids included, it just seemed like a good idea to check out what the 'experts' thought. After all, kids bones etc. don't finish 'forming' until they're close to 20 (and some not til 25), and while they might not be aware of discomfort (most can sleep anywhere, anytime) now, it possibly could have long term consequences... not necessarily, but possibly. Then again maybe futons will turn out to be better than 'western' mattresses in the future, who knows?
No, I didn't offer an opinion. I just know that in the 20 years of patient notes I have typed for several large orthopedic practices and hospitals, that I have never come across a physician who advised against use of a futon.
I may just "process someone else's work" and yes, there's TONS I don't know. Got the message. I don't know Jack. Sheese.
See ya.
My daughter (18) sleeps on one nightly. She has for several years now. We bought a (higher quality) inner spring mattress for hers. I have slept on other mattresses without the innersprings and they have been uncomfortable. I have slept on hers and loved it. She loves it too and will not trade it in.
For the last 4 years or so, our 17 yr old dd has been sleeping on a $100 futon in the basement. It is always in the 'bed' position and is covered by a comforter and then a bottom sheet. It is a freezing but finished 11 x 20 room. She emphatically refuses to sleep elsewhere.
Her beautiful upstairs bedroom with gorgeous trundle bed and a fine mattress is covered with her clothes. Her bedroom is what I call her "dressing room". I gave up this battle a while ago. She does use the desk in her bedroom for homework, computer, guests, stuff, stuff, stuff. Not a huge room, perhaps 11x14, and once upon a time it was such a nice space. The good thing is that nothing is growing or molding there. Teens!!!!!
Holy Cow,
I am soon to be 62 and I SLEEP IN A CHAIR! I sleep better in it than a bed AND I have both back and neck problems. Granted I use a special pillow, but the chair is an Italian leather covered one that reclines with a separate foot stool. Oh, Did I mention that I have major foot trouble as well. I have never tried a futon, but as long is I can keep my back supported and my neck raised I am as happy as a pig in slop.
1eyedJack and the Dawg
After thought, The Dawg sleeps with me, on my right thigh and she likes it as well. It gives her a launching pad to chase the mice that get in during cold, rainy weather.
I am trying to imagine a doctor being asked about what the kids should sleep on. Nope, can't imagine a doc having an opinion on that at all. I am not sure that futons vs. springed beds is covered in medical school.
As a teen, I had a nice little trundle bed. I could stretch out my legs on either side and my toes could touch the ground. I learned how to roll over without moving to the left or the right. It was a handy skill for when I was at college and sleeping 8 ft up in the air in a loft.
A popular trundle-type bed that I see advertised these days has an upper bunk that is a twin bed, then a futon-style full size bed that can be a couch or a bed. It sounds like you have just dispensed with the upper bunk. ;-) If the son likes it and it does not cause problems now, I do not see how it can cause problems in the long run. If a medical transcriptionist hasn't seen it in 20 years of typing notes, it is not a common problem.
My stepson slept on one for years during high school. He loved it and I don't believe that he suffered any long term ill effects.
We have a futon in our guest room and my mother-in-law swears it is the best bed she has ever slept on.
My husband and I bought a high-end (expensive) futon mattress to use in our camper. We love it.
There are some excellent futon mattresses on the market that rival conventional mattresses in quality and comfort.
The ORIGINAL point I was trying to make (way back up there) was that children's bones are still relatively soft, and permanent damage MAY be done in various ways, one of which COULD be a poorly constructed futon (or anything else that affected his anatømy consistently over time, whether or not the kids like them. You may not want to ask the MD directly about futons, but it's always possible to sneak in a little question about their general growth pattern and how it could be affected in different ways until their bones harden off at or even above 20 yrs old. THAT is all I was saying!
I am the original poster of this thread. Didn't realize it was still a topic of conversation :)
Someone commented about being nervous about my son's room having a door to the outside. Its a slider that has a lock way high up in the frame of the slider. This has been his room since he was born and it was never an issue since the door was always locked. In fact (he'll be 11 this month) There has been a swimming pool outside that slider for the past 2 years. Sounds scary, but its not, especially now at his age even with the pool out there.
As for the futon issue. My daughter is 16 and we are probably getting a futon for her room as well. Its a great space saver, gives the room some flexibility, given our limited space.
I WAS the kid/adult who slept on a futon - and I much preferred it over the old, saggy mattress (which probably WAS bad for my back) I had before that. I've had a futon for the last 30-35 years. Although now I sleep on a mattress/boxspring combo (DH would not agree to the futon), I find I sleep more soundly on a futon.
BUT the key is a good quality futon mattress. Go to a futon shop and get a nice 8" all cotton (or cotton with foam core) futon. While Lucy's advice may have been a bit alarmist in tone (JMHO), she's also correct in that you don't want to just settle for "okay for now". We tend to replace our futons every 5-8 years.
Westsider:My daughters love to sleep in our finished basement. But they do sleep upstairs as well. In our case it is because t gets completely dark, no windows in the room. They can sleep as late as they want without natural light waking them up. Just wondering if this is the case with your basement?

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The Boston Globe has created a graphic that magnifies words according to the frequency of use on McCain and Obama's respective blogs. Tellingly, the word used most often by both is Obama.
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Labor groups have filed election complaints against Wal-Mart for reportedly telling store managers that Democrats' proposed labor law changes would drive down wages and force layoffs.
Congress is known for leaving business unfinished, but rarely is a task left undone for more than four decades.
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It's just too bad that the only Americans apparently qualified to advise John McCain on how to deal with the world are those hopelessly corrupted by hundreds of thousands of dollars in recent payments from foreign countries, such as beleaguered Georgia. Good thing that guys like Randy Scheunemann (above, left), whose two-man lobbying firm took in a cool million from Georgia since 2004, have a superhuman ability to separate their analysis from any financial considerations.
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He's been rather quiet recently, but Flint's finest is always a lively voice. His latest missive is a six-point plan for how the Democrats can still blow the easiest election they've faced in decades. Summary? Don't be so darn nice!
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Is it possible that this time the October surprise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave little Georgia struggling for its survival from the grasp of the Russian bear was stoked to influence the U.S. presidential election?
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As the most powerful woman in government, Nancy Pelosi is used to confronting political rivals, but the House speaker has trouble on her flank. Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (above), displeased with the Democrats' lack of progress against the war, has gathered enough signatures to challenge Pelosi as an independent.
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John McCain comes off as the tough-talking hard-liner in this Financial Times story about the Russia-Georgia conflict. Even more of a hard-liner than President Bush, who ever-so-reluctantly came around to agreeing with McCain on Monday after initially taking "a much more diluted stance" (just like Barack Obama), as John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, put it in the FT article's completely unsurprising conclusion.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, pictured, was still ensconced in a Harare hotel with opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday in an attempt to work out some kind of power-sharing arrangement with his rival for the presidency in this year's protracted and controversial election process. But after a weekend of intense talks, nobody had signed on any dotted lines.
The core strategy of John McCain's campaign is to turn Barack Obama into the incumbent, the man who is too familiar yet still mysterious.
Twenty-two Electoral College votes in the Rocky Mountain West are up for grabs, meaning this vast expanse is more pivotal than Ohio. And that's only the beginning of the region's burgeoning influence on energy, taxes, trade and health care.
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After enduring the silly debate over who injected race into the presidential campaign, let's look at some recent numbers that indicate how Barack Obama could win this close election.
Just as John McCain was catching flak for bolstering Paris Hilton's bafflingly resilient showbiz career, another danger appeared on the horizon in the form of that purebred Hollywood golden retriever Gwyneth Paltrow, who's turned up in a Democrat-sponsored PSA with an angular bob that could slice deli meat and a get-out-the-vote message for expat American voters.
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According to the Politico, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given her blessing to vulnerable Democrats to rebel against the party's position on offshore drilling. The strategy goes something like this: Pelosi plays the liberal from San Francisco while representatives of more conservative districts berate her. With a majority intact, the Democrats push through a comprehensive energy policy sometime in 2009.
A visit to Estonia reminds "Democracy Now!" host Amy Goodman that the full impact of the American election will be felt across the globe, from Mesopotamia to a small Baltic republic.
Several leading Republican strategists, both named and anonymous, were quoted Wednesday as slamming the latest in a string of bold attack ads on Barack Obama, this one overlaying images of the young senator with troubled trollops Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. "McCain ads are just catch as catch can, one wild swing at Obama after another," one strategist told the Washington Post.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, beset by accusations of corruption and bribery, announced Wednesday that he will resign after an internal Kadima Party election to choose a new leader on Sept. 17.
In "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies," Barbara Slavin, a leading Middle East reporter for USA Today, offers a refreshingly nuanced and revelatory taxonomy of power within theocratic Iran that sheds light on its leaders and their ambitions.
To win the presidency, Barack Obama needs only to battle John McCain to a tie on foreign policy and national security. That means Obama has no need for a great triumph during his trip this week to the Middle East and Europe. His goal is to look safe, sound and competent, and that's how he's playing things.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have taken a step toward reconciliation, albeit a sluggish one. According to a U.N. envoy, the two sides have tentatively agreed to an outline of conditions for negotiations. Update 2.
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As Barack Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, said in an e-mail to Obama supporters, the campaign has developed a "very aggressive strategy" that requires aggressive fundraising efforts as well. Judging by Team Obama's tally for the month of June, those efforts are quite literally paying off.
With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, an enterprising right-wing artiste by the name of Mike Meehan has recorded an election-year anthem, "Please Don't Vote for a Democrat," and has launched a corresponding PR campaign via the Internet and billboard ads—like this one in noted liberal stronghold Orange County, Florida—in hopes of striking fear and indignation into the hearts of undecided voters.
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It looks bigger than the randall I currently have but it looks like it would make a nice hopback. I think I'll order one...
Somewhat of a newb question. I noticed you can use this as an in-line filter. Does that mean you can toss pellet and whole hops into the bk, connect the hoprocket to bk outlet, and then connect the hoprocket directly into a therminator without worry of it clogging up? I only ask because I currently don't have a false bottom or hop screen on my kettle.
I was trying to decide if I should order a blichmann hop blocker but saw the new hop rocket which looks like it may achieve the same goal and double as a hop infuser.
Along those same lines, I'm wondering if it's possible to fill the HopRocket with a couple handfuls of rice hulls (to act as a filter) when I don't need it for the extra hops.
I've been using mesh bags in my boil kettle for my pellet hops -- I've got an electric kettle with an element that gets in the way of most BK screens -- and it dawned on me that rice hulls in the hopback might work fine to filter out the spent pellet hops. I'd much rather just toss the hops in the kettle and not worry about bags (or clogging my Therminator).
Anyone try using rice hulls as a way to filter out the crud before the plate chiller?
I'd be worried about bugs in the rice hulls but since you're using a plate chiller maybe the hot wort would kill the bugs. I have not opened mine yet but it has 2 mesh plates in the chamber that may work without any hulls?
I haven't looked too closely at the inside screens of the HopRocket yet -- I'm waiting on some stainless quick disconnects from McMaster-Carr so I can attach the tubing a bit more quickly than using the Blichmann quick connects -- but now that you mention it, I wonder if the screens inside the HopRocket are too course for rice hulls. I know Blichmann says pellet hops will not work.
So maybe I'll always use some leaf hops so I can ditch the mesh boil kettle bags.
Any idea on how to calculate the IBUs from the HopBack?
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Anybody have a recipe ready for their new toy yet? I'm thinking go big with the aroma hops for the first time using it.
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I have been thinking of other things to add to it and recirculate the wort during the entire boil. Things like chipotle peppers, cinnamon, coconut, jaggery, candy and I don't know what else. In the end I'm sure I'll just put some cascades in and call it good
I really was suprised how heavy the box was. I can't wait to open it tonight.
So, those holes look a bit small for pellet hops...anyone tried it yet with pellets or is this a 'whole hop' only device?
In the video, I thought he said whole hops only. You might be able to cut some fine mesh and add it to the screen, but it may clog.


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United States Defence Secretary Leon Panetta is set to visit Japan and China this week amid escalating tensions between the two biggest powers of East Asia.
Analysts said the dispute over the Diaoyu Islands (known in Japan as Senkaku Islands) and the US deployment of MV-22 Osprey aircraft to Japan will be high on Panetta's agenda.
The top Pentagon official will also try to explain the US' pivot toward Asia, and promote US-China military relations in meetings with Chinese officials, according to analysts.
Panetta left Washington on Sept. 15 for his third trip to Asia in 11 months. He will travel to Japan, China and New Zealand.
His visit to China will be his first since taking office in July last year, following Defence Minister Liang Guanglie's trip to Washington in May.
In announcing Panetta's trip to China, the Pentagon underscored opportunities for increasing military cooperation as part of their efforts to reassure China that relocating military resources to the Asia-Pacific is not meant to confront the country.
"We believe it's going to be a very productive and cordial visit, one that will advance our shared goals of a more transparent and even more viable relationship with the Chinese military," said Pentagon Press Secretary George Little, to the American Forces Press Service.
During the trip, the US also seeks to promote contact between cadets and mid-level military officers to complement high-level talks, he added.
Panetta's stop in Japan before his prearranged visit to China, which had been revealed much earlier, has attracted attention as the two neighbours are engaged in an escalating territorial dispute over the Diaoyu Islands.
In Japan, Panetta will meet with that country's Defence Minister Satoshi Morimoto, Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and US service members, Little said.
He is also expected to discuss Japanese concerns over the safety of the Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft the US is deploying to Japan.
"The frequency of recent visits to Japan shows the US has an unwavering commitment to the Japanese alliance and to Japanese security, and it makes sense when you're in the neighbourhood to stop by and see your good friends," he said.
However, China is also of growing importance to the US.
In a recent poll conducted by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, when asked whether Japan or China is more important to the US, seven in 10 US citizens said that China is more important.
Commentator Peng Nian said the US defence secretary's visits to Japan and China is "very important" at a time when the two countries' ties are strained by their territorial disputes.
"The US will show that it will not abandon Japan on the one hand, but will try to constrain Japan from destructive behaviour on the other," Peng said.
"In China, Panetta will learn about China's stance on the Diaoyu Islands issue, try to deter Beijing and persuade China to change its tough stance," said Peng.
Panetta's 10-day trip will also include a stop in New Zealand, nearly 11,700 kilometres southeast of China. He will be the first US defence secretary to visit that nation in more than 30 years.
The US and New Zealand signed a declaration in June, that provides a framework for cooperation to focus, strengthen and expand the bilateral defence relationship.
China is concerned about the US rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific region, which is seen as the traditional superpower trying to contain China through strengthened relations with its allies and partners in this region.
"The US aims to have New Zealand join in its rebalancing in the Asia-Pacific region and further complete this system," Peng said.
According to the Voice of America, this visit is a chance for Panetta to allay the concerns of Beijing.
"Our effort to renew and intensify our involvement in Asia is fully compatible with the development and growth of China," Panetta said in June last year in Singapore.
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