Thoughts on boy/girl room sharing?

[Velar Fricative]

I shared a room with my older brother until we were about 8 and 10. It was NBD.

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I think you are good for a few years. My boy and girl are the same ages as yours and I think they would love it.

Although, getting them to actually sleep and not talk all night long would be a challenge because my kids never shut up!

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Sept 30, 2014 10:37:28 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Sept 30, 2014 10:35:47 GMT -5 calamity said:

I think you are good for a few years. My boy and girl are the same ages as yours and I think they would love it.

Although, getting them to actually sleep and not talk all night long would be a challenge because my kids never shut up!

Yeah, I'm more worried about that than any privacy type issues.

Mine would be up telling knock knock jokes to each other that make no sense.  LOL

[bittybomb]

My eldest son (6 yo) and daughter (will be 4 early Nov) share a room. They used to have separate rooms, but once our little guy came, we put him in the smaller room and moved my daughter in to my son's room. My little guy will be 3 in February and I wanted to make the switch at the end of summer, but my husband wanted to hold off for a bit.

My daughter is in a toddler bed, and the little guy is still in his crib. The plan is to get bunk beds and because my youngest is a beast, we'd like to move him to the toddler bed and have the older two use the bunk beds. Also when we started talking to her about having her own room (she has no memory of previously having her own room as she and the little one are only 15 months apart), she was devastated. She has only recently started to exhibit some sort of excitement over having her own room.

Honestly, I think its fine. They do change separately, and we go over privacy quite a bit, but to me they are still such babies!

[bittybomb]

Sept 30, 2014 10:37:28 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Sept 30, 2014 10:35:47 GMT -5 calamity said:

I think you are good for a few years. My boy and girl are the same ages as yours and I think they would love it.

Although, getting them to actually sleep and not talk all night long would be a challenge because my kids never shut up!

Yeah, I'm more worried about that than any privacy type issues.

We still use the monitor because we are on a different floor from them.  Our monitor lets me talk to them through it, so I am constantly telling them to stop talking and to go to sleep!

[cinnamoncox]

I shared a room with my brother who is 15 months older than me until we were roughly 7/8.
We were in a huge room and the toy room was tiny and that's the one one of us was moving into and we both fought so hard for it and he won and I was frigging bullshit, then later I was like self, why did you try for that tiny room? So I need up alone in the huge room. Yeah. I'm 35 and still feel victorious clearly

[cinnamoncox]

Sept 30, 2014 10:36:59 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

I mean, I still bathe them together.

Ella is just at a rough age now, and I'm afraid she'll be a terror to him while he tries to fall asleep.

I'm sorry if I missed, but when will it happen? Since she will be the one moving, I'd try to do something special so she doesn't feel like she's losing get room for the baby. When my bro and I got our own rooms, it was due to us just getting older and needing privacy more than a toy room. I don't know how it would've gone had it been to make room for a baby. Would I have been jealous, felt shifted for baby? Idk. Good luck!

[lilafowler]

I shared a room with both brothers until I was 9 and we moved in with my grandmother.

When we moved my brothers were 7 and 2.

[Kit]

My bff's half siblings share a room. They are in their teens. I cannot imagine how uncomfortable that must be for those kids, and it is so inappropriate.

I think as long as you don't let it go that far you're probably okay. LOL

[sessy]

I have boy/girl twins who are five. They still share a room. In fact they share a bed (their choice). I'll let them do that for as long as they want. When they ask for different rooms they can have them.

[julygal]

My oldest 2 share a room. We moved DS out of the nursery into oldest DD's room about a month before the baby arrived. We got him a twin bed and made a big deal about getting to move into the big kid room. He was 2 and excited to be a big kid. DD was excited to share with her brother. There was a rough adjustment of them actually falling asleep, but they eventually got tired enough that they went to bed like normal. They have been sharing a room for 3 years now. They are currently 7 and 5. We are moving soon to a bigger house, so they will each get their own room, but we could keep sharing if needed. DD is just now starting to want more privacy, so she goes to the bathroom to change when she thinks about it. If we were staying in this house, we'd probably shuffle the rooms so the girls were sharing (now that younger DD sleeps through the night) and DS got his own room.