Here’s my video about Feng Shui for kids from 4-11 years old: Seven Steps To A Child’s Feng Shui Bedroom.

In it you’ll learn how to create a bedroom that can help with your child’s study habits, celebrate important accomplishments, and encourage creativity and growth.

For younger children please watch my video about the Feng Shui for the nursery or bedroom, Six Feng Shui Steps To A Happy, Healthy Nursery.

Enjoy!

Thanks again to babybites.com for sponsoring this video!

Here’s my video, filled with tons of Feng Shui tips and guidance to help you get your young one off to a great start in life.

Step by step, you’ll learn just how to create great Chi energy, from colors and decoration to placing the baby’s crib in the best possible location.

I hope you enjoy the 12-minute video, Six Feng Shui Steps To A Healthy, Happy Nursery, sponsored by Babybites.com.

Try these Feng Shui adjustments to calm things down and create an atmosphere that fosters cooperation.

1. Cool down a Yang environment. Bright colors and an overly busy playspace can encourage aggressive behavior.

2. Enhance the appropriate areas of the Bagua: Children and Family.

The Family area is exactly opposite on the left hand side of your space. A great enhancement for this area is happy family photos that remind the kids of their most important support network

3. Empower each child with his or her own designated area, creating a sense of ownership and boundaries.

What have I missed? Let me — and Sarah! — know in the Comments.

Do  footboards on beds affect the Feng Shui of the bedroom?

Feng Shui-wise, here are two sides to the footboard coin.

On the downside, footboards can make you feel as though you’re trapped, and they can block your view of the door at certain angles, preventing you from having visual command of your space.

Over time the limitations of a footboard can make you feel as though your entire life is constrained: bad Feng Shui indeed.

And I personally don’t like footboards because I’m tall: it feels like I can never fully stretch out.

But footboards create good bedroom Feng Shui in a couple of specific situations as well.

• If your bed can only be positioned directly facing the door, rather than in the Command Position that Feng Shui recommends, a footboard will blunt the force of Chi energy coming through the door straight at you, and cause it to flow around you instead.

• And kids prefer footboards, too, because they add to the child’s feeling of safety and security during the night.

Does your bed have a footboard? How does it make you feel?

(Photo courtesy of trendir.com)

Here’s some Bad Feng Shui in a model home I recently visited, with the child’s room set up like so:

It's crowded in here! (click to enlarge)

This room is packed with animals of every shape and description.

I count twelve stuffed animals (I might have missed a few), plus painted animals on furniture and wall hangings, animals in the curtains and bed linens, and animal prints on the easy chair!

The giant giraffe alone is nightmarish.

Don’t get me wrong, stuffed animals are wonderful companions. But in Feng Shui it’s key that a child’s room feel calm and safe, private and roomy.

This room has so much going on it that the child himself may get lost.

In Feng Shui animals represent the Fire element, the most Yang element of all, so from a Feng Shui and Five Elements perspective, this room is way out of balance.

I’d suggest asking this child to choose a few favorite animal friends and sending the rest to bring vitality to other childrens’ rooms.

From a Feng Shui perspective none of these colors belong in a child’s bedroom.

Feng Shui does not approve.

These are all “Yang” colors — great for rooms where a lot of activity takes place, like a playroom, perhaps, but definitely not a bedroom.

A child’s bedroom needs to feel like a sanctuary from the busy world: safe, secure and quiet. Choose “Yin” colors for your child’s bedroom that will help him or her calm down and sleep well.