kids, boys, sharing a room, sons

my 2 kids, a boy and a girl shared rooms when they were 4 and 5. But it only lasted a year as they would not go to bed when told. They would stay up and talk non stop for hours! I never knew they could talk sooo much!

Sometimes I wish my kids could each have their own room. It would make life so much easier sometimes. Right now my 2 older girls (6 and 4) share a room and my son (5) has his own room and the baby (10 months) still sleeps in our room. Actually my son sleeps on the floor of his sisters' room. He refuses to sleep in his own room and won't sleep in a bed. You could either wait until your older son starts asking to have his space or you could separate them now before they get too used to sleeping together. When we moved here we let our son sleep in the girls' room because it was cooler in there and since then he refuses to sleep in his own room. He just got used to being with them. Before we moved he slept in his own room with no trouble.

I'd let them do it when they feel comfortable doing it. You can set them up with their own rooms, but they don't have to sleep there until they're ready. They might need to learn some autonomy, and since there's no need to rush - why push it?

I think it's fine to leave them in the same room. When they're little a room seems a lot bigger and darker than adults realize. It's nice to have the comfort of knowing someone else is in there too. As they get older you can set the extra bedrooms up to give them space for things...a play/toy room, a hobby room, an "office" with desks for homework time. If you do want to separate them, I'd wait until your older son's next birthday. Then you could decorate an extra room with his favorite theme and make giving him his own new room a birthday present. It'll be an easy way to get him excited about sleeping alone and point out how he's getting to be a "big boy".

My boy's are 9 and 11, and they still share a room. We tried putting them in their own rooms, but they always ended up sleeping in the same room! So, for now, that's what they do. They sleep in one room, and play in another. Eventually, when they are ready, they will have their own rooms, but for now, they share.

My sosn both share a room but not vecause of the lack of space there is a guest room and study avaliable, I thought it would be better for their relationship together to learn and to live in the same space, that they might get along better and apreciate one another more then if they were to be in sererate rooms down the hall.

It would probably be best to get the change over with now while the younger one doesn't notice it too much. My three daughters had to share a room until the oldest was 17, the other two were six and seven, I always felt that this was not good for the eldest as she had no privacy.

If it were me I would leave them together. I bed that they are comforting for each other. My 21 month old sleeps with me so I know that it's comforting for him to sleep with me. I think that my other children's bedrooms were on the same floor I would most likely put him in with them. But for now he'll stay with me. Kids will comfort each other and they feel safe when they're together...not to mention warm if they're in the safe bed. I say let it be until they ask for their own rooms or maybe even when the baby is bigger and feels safe alone. Good luck!

i think that they can continue to share a room until one decides that he wants his own room. If it's really important to you that they have their own rooms, then the sooner you make the switch the better. My sister and I shared a room until I was about 12. Then I wanted my own room. It just makes sense to me to let the children decide when they are ready for separate rooms. Usually about puberty they want a room of their own. They need the space and privacy at that time.