Have any of your kids shared a room for a year or more?

[Doran]

I wonder whether it's a socio-economic thing, or values, or what, that is causing the drastic difference between the results of this poll and the informal poll of parents of freshman every year...?

 

 

I'd put money on it being a combination of economics and values, with the former (many homeschoolers are also living in single income families) tipping the scales just a bit toward smaller homes thus the need for room sharing.

[HomesteadMommy]

Yes right now our girls are 2 to a room and baby is with us. We are planning to turn another room into a bed room for us, then give the girls the larger room. Then ds will have his own until/if we have another boy.

[mazakaal]

My 10yo & 12yo have shared since the 10yo was probably 6mo. Then they shared with dd when she was 6mo-1yo. After my 4yo was about 4mo, he shared with dd until about a year ago when he moved in with the older boys.

[Lisa in the UP of MI]

Currently I sleep with our baby, dh sleeps with the 2.5yo, and 4yo dd sleeps in her own room. Next month we are moving into a 3-bedroom house. The master bedroom is reallllly long and we are thinking about having everyone sharing that room and using the other two as an office and a spare bedroom.

[Colleen]

Sharing a room is the norm here; I wouldn't want it otherwise. We have five children divided (not literally:tongue_smilie:) among three rooms. The baby always had a room to himself but Kai is of course no longer a baby. To that end, I'm probably going to use the third room as a "room to yourself" that each boy cycles in and out of for a given period of time.

[Stacy in NJ]

My older two shared for 11 years even though we had an extra bedroom, I think sharing bedrooms is a good thing. Now they all have their own rooms.

 

We have a spare room but mine share a bedroom. They're close in age. I think it's good for them and they enjoy it.

[jenn-]

My oldest and youngest have their own rooms for now. My twins share and always will. I see a day in our future when the 3 youngest will share and we will convert the extra room to a playroom or school room (depending on how far in the future I am looking).

[Matryoshka]

My three girls share a room, and I don't think that will change anytime soon (if ever). The older two would each like their own room - we could probably manage one more room, but then which one would get it?? They're twins, so I can't pick "oldest".

 

The younger one loooves sharing a room and would prefer it if someone would sleep with her to boot. She's always trying to bribe one of her sisters to sleep with her (good thing she's the one with the double bed).

[~Tara~]

Sharing is all mine have ever known. Except the one girl. She's always had her own room. Eldest did briefly have a room of his own when there were 3 boys. But it wasn't long. We moved and they went back to sharing. He was only about 5 at the time. He didn't care one way or the other. Since then though, the boys have always shared.

Oops, um, minus the time Nugget got kicked out. He was the root of all night time issues so he was sequestered to the bonus room for a while. But has since been allowed back in.

 

Poor Doodles. She could benefit from a room buddy. Sorry. I wanted one of the last two to be a girl, but it didn't happen :p

[Danestress]

My oldest (who had his own room) is in college now. Sometimes one of the other boys will sleep in his room because his brother snores. But they share a room for most purposes most of the time, and will continue to do so until their older brother is established somewhere.

[gardenschooler]

Mine have always had to share a room, and at least some combination of them always will. I didn't grow up thinking having my own room was something that was ever going to happen (I have 3 sisters), so it doesn't seem like such a hardship to me.

[Mommyof4ks]

My boys share a room, but at ages 3 and 5 they don't care. We are moving to a bigger house soon, but even with an extra room we will likely continue to bunk them in one room. They will probably get their own rooms as teens, but honestly neither of them has the personality of my DD who needs her own space and has since 18 months old. It will depend on their needs at the time I suppose.

[SABE]

My older two boys have shared a room for the past 2.5 years, and boy #3 just moved in with them in preparation for the new baby coming in February. They are all very happy with the arrangement.

[clarkacademy]

My two boys share they are 7 and 10 my two girls do not because they are almost 12 and just 4 I can't say for certain but I doubt I would ever make my girls share because I think the ages are too far apart. If I was in a situation that I had no extra room I would probally keep my youngest in my room until the older moves out but I am not sure really. When my mother adopted two little girls and I was a teenager I loved having living dolls but hated sharing a room with littles that got in my stuff it lasted about three months when my parents decided I had been kind enough and moved to a bigger house!! I just don't know for sure as far as the girls go but my boys would have it no other way they don't remeber not having the other.

[alpidarkomama]

We have three in one room, and the baby in his own room. Our room is upstairs, and with kids 5, 3, 2, and 1 upstairs was too far away from everyone so we turned the upstairs family room (adjacent to our bedroom) into a giant kid bedroom. It's fantastic!!!! Our second bedroom downstairs is our guest room/office. We really like this arrangement, and at this age they LOVE sharing a room. Bunk beds and a toddler bed now, and LOTS of room to play.