Laura in MI Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Dd14 is complaining that her bed is too small and she needs a bigger bed and "everyone she knows" has a bigger bed. I'm pretty sure she's over exaggerating but I thought I'd ask the hive :tongue_smilie: Poll to follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotAVampireLvr Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't have a 14 y.o. but there are a few I know from church and in my neighborhood, and my niece is 14. None of them have anything larger then a twin bed. I slept in a twin bed until I was married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer in MI Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I'll answer the poll when it's posted. My 15 yo has a twin loft bed that my dad made and he loves it! My 14 yo has a twin bed. He'll probably get the loft bed for his 15th birthday. I grew up with a queen and I have a VERY hard time sharing a bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Girls' Mom Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 15 year old has had a queen bed for about 3 years now...but she got it by default. For various reasons, we ended up with an extra bed in queen size and it was too nice to get rid of. Her sisters, who are the size of adults, sleep in twin bunks. I had a twin until I was married. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeganW Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Tell her that all college dorm rooms have twin-size beds - best get used to it! (And since many college beds have TWO people in them most nights, I'm sure the twin is big enough for her!) My DH had a queen-size growing up. He never learned to stay in one place in the bed. The first few years we were married, I would have to literally get out of bed & walk around to the other side several times a night b/c he was just completely sprawled out and was constantly rolling all over. It was awful! NOT good to sleep with! My kids will be in twins until they buy their own beds in their own apartments, and then they can decide. I want them to learn to sleep in a smaller space. Their future spouses will thank me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyNellen Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14 yo has a queen because his room doubles as the guest room. He likes the bed but the trade-off is sleeping on the floor of his brothers' room when we have guests (4-6 times a year). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In the Rain Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Tell her that all college dorm rooms have twin-size beds - best get used to it! (And since many college beds have TWO people in them most nights, I'm sure the twin is big enough for her!) :lol::iagree: I know some teens now with queen beds. I had a twin until college. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danestress Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I am a small person. But I really dislike sleeping in a twin bed. It's not the end of the world. I can do it. But since I spend 1/3 of my life in bed, I prefer to be comfortable there, and I don't think a twin bed is comfortable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) Both boys have queens. Their feet were hanging over/hitting the end of their twins... they weren't sleeping well. They sleep much better in the bigger beds. We skipped the full, and went straight to queens (longer than twins) so we could also use them as guest beds later or let them take the beds when they get married/move out.... Edited February 13, 2012 by CathieC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) My 12 yr old dd (5'4") has a twin and will until she buys a bigger one herself. Dh and I only have a full.:tongue_smilie: Edited February 13, 2012 by Horton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 We learned the hard way that a twin X-long is really what teens need. We had twins but after a few of the kids went off to college and then came home complaining they couldn't sleep in their beds and then WE tried sleeping in their beds (insomnia), we realized that a twin bed is shorter than most other sizes like a Queen or King. Anyway, I don't currently have a 14 yr old, but I do have a 16 and she's getting a twin x-long when we can afford one since we bought the other kids theirs. Their bedrooms are not really big enough for queen sized beds, especially the ones who share a bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14yo stepson has a twin. I never had anything other than a twin until I moved out and bought my own bed. Even then, I had a double. Dh and I had a double bed until just a year ago. We have a king now. I LOVE that huge bed, LOL. I tell dh all the time how much I love the bed. :001_smile: But yeah, I see NO reason a teen would need larger than a twin bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrincessMommy Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Tell her that all college dorm rooms have twin-size beds - best get used to it! (And since many college beds have TWO people in them most nights, I'm sure the twin is big enough for her!) My DH had a queen-size growing up. He never learned to stay in one place in the bed. The first few years we were married, I would have to literally get out of bed & walk around to the other side several times a night b/c he was just completely sprawled out and was constantly rolling all over. It was awful! NOT good to sleep with! My kids will be in twins until they buy their own beds in their own apartments, and then they can decide. I want them to learn to sleep in a smaller space. Their future spouses will thank me! most colleges have Twin X-Long beds, not the regular twin beds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChiMomNP Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 13 year old has a queen, but that is because we bought it for ourselves and decided we didn't like it. We bought another that was a better fit for us. He really likes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lady Florida. Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I voted other. Right now he has a futon bunk bed. The bottom is the futon, which he always leaves down, and is full size. The top is twin. He slept on the bottom for years, but now it's starting to be uncomfortable. I think it's because he's bigger and heavier now, so he feels those bars under the flimsy futon mattress that he didn't feel when he was smaller. He's been sleeping on the top bunk lately. We plan to get him a new bed in the next few months, and it will be a full size. I figure it will be the bed he has until he leaves home, so it should be comfortable. A twin bed is doable, but not really comfortable IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Ds has a full and a futon. He goes in spurts sleeping in one or the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claire in NM Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Claire in NM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Ds17--6ft tall, has a twin. His feet hand off the end, but that is how he likes to sleep so when I offered to buy him a larger bed, he declined. DD13--5'6" has a twin loft bed as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunD Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I got a full at 11, and my sister inherited it when I left, which was when she was 13. We aren't big people at all, but twins can feel sort of claustrophobic if they're against the wall. OTOH they can feel very narrow if they're out in the open, depending on your preferred sleeping position. For now my girls have twins (twin w/trundle) but when they get close to the teen years we'll have a bigger place and probably get all the kids fulls unless we have many more than we're planning on. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 When I was 14, I had just graduated to a twin bed. Up until the prior year, I shared a full-sized bed with my sister (who was bigger than I was). Often my kid brother and sister crawled in to sleep with me. I was 25 when I graduated to having a full-sized bed all to myself. 20 years later, I'm still in the same full-sized bed. But I sleep in the top bunk of my kids' bunkbed when we have overnight houseguests. My kids are only 5, but they just graduated to a shared twin bed (bottom bunk) last summer. (They were in their convertible cribs/tot cots before that.) They will use the bunkbed in some form or other until they either inherit or buy something bigger. I think if your dd needs something bigger than a twin sized bed, she needs to figure out how to earn the money to buy one. That's what I'd tell her, anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertDweller Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Dd has a twin bed. While her rooms not that small, anything bigger would take up too much space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 13 yr old son has a twin on the bottom bunk of the bunk beds. Not sure what I will do when he outgrows the bed, we do not have room for a larger bed in that room or anywhere else for that matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueinNC Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My dd is younger and she has a full size bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pamela H in Texas Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I answered in the poll. However, I think that size of family as well as other factors makes a difference. A smaller family may have more room, money, etc for a larger bed. In our case? Each of my kids ages 6 and up have had a queen size bed at one point or another based on our needing to switch beds around for whatever reason. Right now, my 16yr old is in a full and my 6 year old went back to a twin (top bunk). My four year old had the full at one point. It just has depended. I prefer the littles being in smaller beds though. Right now, hubby and I each have a queen to ourselves as we can't decide on a mattress. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hana Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) My children have full-size because I like to be able be able to crawl in and read to them and snuggle them. It's my luxury, not theirs. Edited February 13, 2012 by hana Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellers Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14 year old daughter has a queen bed. Her bedroom doubles as a guest room. My 15 year old daughter has a set of bunk beds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) My Ds 14 has an ordinary single bed. He really is too long for it, He is just over 6 feet tall. He just sleeps with his legs bent to fit. DH and I share a double, Ds17 has a double, but he is just about to shift into residence and have a single. I have no idea how he will fit as he is 6'4" Ds 16 has a single DD 12 has a single DS 7 has a single to tell you the truth, I am not sure what a twin is??? maybe it is what we call a single? Edited February 13, 2012 by melissaL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brindee Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My dh and I got a full size bed for the guest room before we had kids. We ended up having 2 boys and a girl. The boys shared a room in the house we lived in then, so when dd graduated out of her crib, then toddler bed, she got the full size bed, even though she was only 4. The boys had twin bunk beds. Right after dd turned 5 we moved to this house. Our oldest got the biggest of the 3 kids rooms, which meant he also got the full, and had to sleep on the floor in his brother's room when guests came. So dd got a twin bed, and younger ds did too. When the boys went off to school (boarding Christian High school and oldest to college), dd ended up with the large room (2 years ago). She chose to keep her twin bed, so we made a guest room out of one of the other rooms, since oldest was gone all school year at a University in Mexico. All 3 of them are home this year, so younger ds chose to have the full size bed. He's 6'2" now (oldest ds is 5'10"), and fits better on the full. That's how it is right now. Long answer to your question! ;) But, the final answer is that dd14 (5'4") is on the twin bed. DH and I got her a foam mattress for Christmas and she likes it a lot better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2samlibby Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 13 yo 5 ft 7" son sleeps in a queen. 9 yo dd sleeps in a double. DS has a queen because we bought ourselves a new one and he got the old. I don't know if he could sleep in a twin though. He's all over the place while he sleeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ailaena Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Dd had twin until we moved when she was 14. If we wouldn't have purchased the furniture that was here, she would have slept in her old Playnix rainbow, twin-sized bed until she left for college - feet hanging off and everything :D I had a full that I slept in until I bought my own queen waterbed at @16 or so. In your daughter's defense, dd was literally the only kid we knew that still had a twin bed. Everyone else had queens, and some even had king beds. Shoot, we even knew a girl (middle school at the time) who had her own suite in her own wing of the house! That was craziness, right there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jann in TX Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 DD 21 has a queen, dd 18 (away at college and doing well with the twin-xl in the dorm) also has a queen--BUNK BED (DH helped her build it several years ago-- it is like sleeping in a cave!). DD 10 currently as a twin--but the mattress is worn out and she will be a tall one- she just turned 10 in January and is already 5'1"... we will get her a queen... she will move into the second master bedroom this summer when her sisters FINALLY move out (they are going to share an apartment)... this bed will double as a guest bed. We will put a queen in one of the other bed rooms too-- sometimes DHs snoring keeps me awake-- well MOST nights it does... We've found very little price difference between full and queen mattresses... plus we are tall and fit better in a queen (DH and I share a king and would not have it any other way). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ottakee Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 In our new house, dd has a king size bed. Here she has a very large room--about 15x16. In our last house she had a twin as her bedroom was 7x9. She ended up with the King as dh and I got a new bed and she "loved" our old one and wanted that. It will double as a guest room if we have overnight guests. Granted her older sister sleeps in the King with her most nights so she doesn't have it all to herself but given the girls are only 5' tall, they have plenty of room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Smith Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I don't have a fourteen year old. But how is it not big enough. If she is so tall she has to curl up so her feet don't hang off the edge, then I would agree with her that it is to small. My 6 year old has a queen bed. But his bedroom doubles as the quest room when people come over to spend the night. I got him a queen so that couples (as in my parents) can comfortable sleep in his bed. My husband never had a big bed as a teen, he sprawls all over anyway :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZooRho Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Both boys have queens. Their feet were hanging over/hitting the end of their twins... they weren't sleeping well. They sleep much better in the bigger beds. We skipped the full, and went straight to queens (longer than twins) so we could also use them as guest beds later or let them take the beds when they get married/move out.... this is my youngest. We just got him a Queen. We had been looking at getting him one when I had to go help my parents out and we got one of their beds. He needed the length. My oldest who is smaller, is okay in his twin loft bed. And on college beds yes they are twins but are extra long so the length is about the size of a queen bed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14yo had a super-twin waterbed. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaT Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14yo has a double bed because it is the guest room when needed. My 12yo and 13yo have a twin, and my 18yo has an extra long twin. We are about to replace my 13yo's with an extra long - he had a growth spurt and is needing a longer one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyinND Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I have a 13 yr. & I voted a full. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jilly Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 12 year old son has a full bed. He wasn't comfortable in a twin anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparrow Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 They're not 14 years old yet, but they'll still have their current Full-size beds at that age. Dh and I both grew up having a Full-size bed, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cindyg Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Mine is still in the bunk beds he got around age 7. I guess that makes his bed a twin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Dd has a queen, but we don't have a guest room, and her room is where family stays when they come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanna Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My 14yo has a full-futon bed. It's part of the bunk beds we "inherited" when my dh's step-sister had her room redone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starr Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Dd has a double by default but ds 6ft. has a twin and is happy with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teachin'Mine Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 Didn't read through, so I don't know if this has already been posted, but twins and fulls/doubles are 75" in length. Extra long twins, queens and kings are all 80" long and California kings are 84" long. All that to say that if her feet aren't falling off the edge, she should be fine. IMO it's a good time for an important lesson that someone will always have bigger and better, and at the same time, the majority of people throughout the world would be thrilled to have a warm bed to sleep in - of any size. Or, if it's really that important, I'd encourage her to earn what she needs for a new bed. If her mattress is old and in need of replacement, I might consider putting a percentage towards the larger one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommaduck Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 All my kids have twin, except the three year old, he has a toddler and will be graduating to a full size futon bed. Some of my kids have bunk beds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My very tall 14 year old is in a twin. dh and I both had twin beds until we married and we now share a full size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetandSimple Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 I agree with a lot of what people have said---- she'll have a twin if she goes away to college, so it makes sense to stick with that for now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My twins are 13.5, not quite 14, but things won't change in 1/2 a year - they just got brand new twin captain's beds. They share a room - there's no room for anything more! My youngest had a full-size for years (the lower bed of the bunk she was in was a sofa/full futon), but when her sisters left, she abandoned it for the single twin that was in the room. Didn't even want the top bunk! It looks like we'll be selling that bed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyJoy Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 (edited) I had a double bed starting at age 7, but only because it was a hand-me-down from my parents. They stored it while we were overseas and bought a new one there, so I got their old one when we moved back to the States. My room thus became the guest room whenever we had company. My sister had a twin bed until age 25 when she bought her own double! My DH was 6'2" when he left home at age 16 and was still sleeping in a smaller-than-twin homemade bed. His twin bed in his college dorm was downright roomy! Edited February 13, 2012 by AndyJoy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caitilin Posted February 13, 2012 Share Posted February 13, 2012 My twins have twin-over-full bunk beds, so I chose other. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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