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Can newborns and toddlers possibly remember how their parents decorated their rooms, once they have reached adult hood. While I do not think they did, I wish they had. I do know for a fact that if you put a young adolescent in a room that was originally decorated for a baby, he or she will ALWAYS remember that room. This is how my bedroom looked at the age of twelve, and all the way to when I was fifteen. Just a few months before my sixteenth birthday, we made the move at last. At the time that I am describing (in 1964)If your parents were not willing to re-decorate your room it doesn't matter how much you beg, sulk, or though tantrums it will not happen, at least that was the way in my family. The room I lived in for three years and seven months had been lovingly decorated for a little baby boy who was probably born right after the Second World War or thereabouts. The walls were painted a pale green, reminiscent of hospital wards. Alongside a single wall (most likely the location of the infant's crib, I shuddered always to think), the design of the peeling border was an old and faded locomotive motif. The hat worn by the locomotive's conductor was inscribed in French with words I had memorized. They always popped up in my mind in French class, at school. I put the desk in this corner of the room because of the room layout. (a desk is about the size of a baby’s crib). The wallpaper with the smiling conductor and brown train lasted far beyond my childhood into my young adult life. The uniform he wore was blue and striped and a red kerchief was tied around his throat. Is it possible that brat can remember the room as clear as I do? Again, I doubt it. The frames on the two big windows in the room had a horrible orange-red paint on, which was clashed badly with the alreday sick green walls. However they managed to match the curtains. I did not have to endure the curtains for long, as they were ripped and faded. Holding a stick I don’t know the name of that toy,they were made of a red cotton fabric with a print design of little boy figures all wearing blue sailor suits and knee-high white socks and running behind some kind of wheel. I hope they made the baby boy in his crib smile or fall asleep right away or something becuase the little boys were also all grinning as madly as the train-conductor. I actually felt like slapping them. I came home one afternoon and the curtains were gone. Surprisingly they were thrown out by my mother. She had them replaced with curtains that weren’t ripped or faded. I think they were a green and white stripe fabric. The first curtains in the baby room are more memorable to me. At the time that I had kids of my own years ago, I never decorated their bedrooms. My two sons shared a room, so when I asked them, when they got old enough, how they wanted the room to look it did not go well. However I listened to them anyway. The Year Six decided that they wanted to have bright red walls. (the colors of his favorite soccer club). Beside his bed was a very bright red wall. The eleven year old wanted an orange wall and posters of NBA players (I think it was the Utah Jazz). He received an orange-colored wall and poster pictures. White was the color of the two walls that remained. Even though it was the ugliest I've ever seen, the boys loved their room and entertaining their buddies in it.
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