Tweens are children who are not still little kids but they aren’t yet teenagers. They’re starting to find their own independent personalities but they also rely a lot on the comfort that comes from Mom and Dad. As kids begin to shift from children to tweens, they’ll want their bedrooms to reflect this change. You don’t want to spend a lot of money redecorating the room for them since they’re rapidly going to be teenagers who want to change it all up again. However, you should respect that they’re getting older and allow them to make some changes to the room.

You won’t want to upgrade the furniture in the room just yet. Kids furniture, particularly beds and dressers, is still fine for tweens even if they don’t want to keep it. What you might want to do is allow for a new item or two to enter the room. A beanbag chair or a new lamp can make the tween’s room a bit more grown-up without costing too much money.

Let your tween make smaller changes throughout the room as well but don’t let him or her move too quickly into teenagedom. Make suggestions for keeping some of those kid things around. Maybe your tween wants to get rid of all of his toys but some should stay. Have him hang completed jigsaw puzzles on the wall or frame a favorite toy in a shadowbox. Your tween may wish to grow up too quickly but she’ll be glad that you didn’t let her.

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