Share rooms

@mom4kids (657)
Canada
September 17, 2008 10:39pm CST
Do your kids share a room or do they each have a room. My two oldest were sharing a room but my oldest was not getting enough sleep now that shes in grade one so we decided she needed her own room. So now its my two middle kids sharing a room. Its ok now because they are little but my son will be starting school next year then I'm probably going to want him to have his own room in case his younger sister keeps him up. And then there's also the factor of having a boy and a girl in a room together. We are hoping by next fall to put a wall up and making the room my 2 kids share into 2 rooms, it was 2 rooms before we moved in but the previous owners had knocked down the wall. So do your kids share rooms? Does it work? Is it a problem? Do you wish you had more space?
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
18 Sep 08
LOL...what a night to ask! I am totally wishing we had more space right now! We have a 4 bedroom trailer with an addition...sounds big enough right? Ha...as of tomorrow we will have 10 people living here! So here's how we'll be divided up for now: the inlaws have their room, s/o and I have a room (but he mostly sleeps on the couch because my "bed" is barely twin size), our 3 boys share the room next to mine. S/o's oldest son DID have his own room across the hall but that's all changing, his girlfriend officially got kicked out of her house and moved in last night (not that that's anything new, she pretty much lived here all summer) and tomorrow s/o's daughter is moving in. For now she'll have to share the big room with her brother and his girlfriend. Luckily for her(sort of) the room next to his room was supposed to be more or less a storage area. It's not huge and contains the back door to the house BUT we can at least temporarily make it decent enough for a 5th bedroom. Once in-laws move out stepson and girl friend are taking their room but the little boys room is too small for 3 so we were planning on opening it back up into my room so it would be one big bedroom and then s/o and I would move across the hall to what is currently stepson's room. Now that stepdaughter is coming those plans are all thrown off though so we'll probably have to completely redo the addition part inside to make it into 2 bedrooms rather than 1 bedroom and a storage room. Does it work as is? Eh...it's ok. The boys are cramped and have no room to play in their room which means toys wind up everywhere but in there. Three teenagers in one room (with the combo we'll have) is just not really appropriate. It will do though for a really short amount of time since this was all unexpected.
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• United States
18 Sep 08
Your house sounds a lot like mine. I find toys all over the living room, kitchen, etc. because there is no room for the kids to play. My fiance and I got the smallest bedroom and have exactly 6 inches around our bed. My dresser is at the foot of the bed and I have to move the bed to open the drawers. It is very cramped in all the bedrooms and definitely tight. We have a friend that owns a 5 bedroom house and has to move because of work. They are willing to sell the house to us on contract, so we are talking about that. We are not sure that we want to move the kids to a new town and new schools. They are very happy and doing very well where they are at. We will just have to see what happens.
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
18 Sep 08
I always stressed about having kids change schools but it turned out to be not so bad. My older 3 (that don't live here, just to make thing more confusing) had to change schools when they moved in with their dad. It happened over a summer and wasn't planned far in advance so they didn't really get to say bye to their friends...I thought it would be traumatic but they adjusted really well.
• United States
18 Sep 08
We have 8 people in a 3 bedroom trailer. Our 2 girls share a room and the 4 boys share a room. It does not work well at all. My 2 year old gets woke up every morning by the kids getting up and ready for school. Then, he refuses to go back to sleep and ends up needing a longer nap than usual. Plus, I cannot get stuff done near as easily in the morning with him being up. Then, they play, talk, and mess around at bedtime, so they are all grouchy and don't want to get up in the morning. I wish that we had at least 1 more bedroom to where I could put the 13 and 6 year old in one room and put the 5 and 2 year old in the other. For now, they are all in the 1 bedroom. Maybe someday we will be able to move into a bigger place and spread them out more.
@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
18 Sep 08
I can totally sympathize with you! Read my post below (if you can follow it lol, with a big family things get confusing fast!) Ours isn't quite as bad though and we have the extra room to jiggle people around with a little work.
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@Ohara_1983 (4117)
• Kuwait
19 Sep 08
I wish to have more & big space for my family, but we have only one daughter still to young to have her own room, maybe when is ig enought she can have her own room, for now we got 3 bedrooms apartment so she can have the one. maybe with in two years it already enough in her age to stay in her own room.
@laglen (19759)
• United States
19 Sep 08
I only have one child, she has her own hall, bedroom and bathroom. We are lucky, we have a 4 bedroom house and one kid!
@jzjqdkd (273)
• China
20 Sep 08
to tell you the truth,i haven't got married yet.but if i have the same prolem with you ,maybe i will do the same with you ,too.it is really unconvenient to have two kids to live in one room, your idea of separating the room sounds good.certainly i wish i can have more space,but large enough is enough.just proper for my family to live a relatively comfortable life .
• Uruguay
19 Sep 08
Hmm i havent kids, but i share my room whit my brother, and we always fight for some things, you know.. the privacy and other things. Anyways he know i have the power of the room so hes just a rookie here :) Have fun!
@annjilena (5618)
• United States
18 Sep 08
i only have 1 teen at home he always had his on room i rember when i was little it was 5 girls to one room and my brother it was 5 boys we had a small house but we was happy i guest because we was together i am so thankful my parents never gave any of us a way they had so many kids.
@sunshine4 (8703)
• United States
18 Sep 08
In my old house we had 3 bedrooms. When we had our 4th child, we built a bedroom in the basement for my oldest son and the other two boys shared a room. Then the baby had her own room. As the boys grew, my second son wanted his own room, so we built a second bedroom in the basement. Now only 3 of my children still live at home. We built our new house a few years ago and it has 4 bedrooms and one in the basement. This way everyone has their own bedroom and there is lots of peace in the house.
@zeny_zion (1283)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
since i only have one kid theres no sharing. she got her own room and privacy. the thing is she just got separated with me at the age of 20. little bit late ha. at least she decided to separate and stayed with her room.
@rainmark (4302)
18 Sep 08
I have only 1 son as of now, and we're planning only two kids and they will going to sleep in different rooms. I don't want them to share so that they have a privacy and avoid the trouble before bedtime. But when i was a kid, we are 8 in family,we girls share the rooms and while my brother sleep on the other room. Sometimes its really crowded and always fighting for the space. Until when i get teenager i asked my parents to have my own room, but still one of my teenager sister still sharing room with me. It's really pissed me off!