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I’d say as little ones sharing the room would be a great idea. When they’re old enough to want separate rooms you can work out a way for them to arrange who gets which room. Like drawing straws or something.
What would you do?
My husband, daughter, and I live in the house that I grew up in. Its a 3 bedroom- so a master and two others.
One of those bedrooms is double the size of the other. Our daughter’s room is in the bigger room. Growing up, I had the bigger room and my brother had the smaller room. I remember only one time that my brother asked my parents why I got the bigger room, and my parents explained to him that they figured girls had more stuff in their rooms and also spent more time in their rooms in general, so they gave me the bigger room. My brother was happy with and accepted this explanation and it was never brought up again.
I am now pregnant with my second, and if this one is a boy I don’t mind giving him the smaller room with the same reasoning as my parents had. But if its a girl, I feel like one of them having a bedroom double the size of the other is going to cause some drama down the road. I’ve thought about having them share the big room and keeping the smaller one as a playroom or something, but I wouldn’t know what to do down the road if they wanted their own room.
I kinda feel like I’m overthinking this, but its a real concern of mine 😅
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I was older and so got the bigger room BUT that also meant some of my younger sisters stuff was in my room (her homework desk, dresser, etc) and so there was no privacy anyway. If they’re the same gender, I think sharing a room is good and healthy! My daughters are 14 and 16 and share a room and actually enjoy it most of the time. There are occasional squabbles but neither wants to be in a room alone overnight.
My daughter has the bigger room in the house and my son has the smallest. She has to share a room with 2 other sisters at her moms so when they moved here we gave her that one. I also fully agree girls need a bigger space! She has a bookshelf, makeup stand, beanbag chair, karaoke machine, all kinds of stuff! He has a bed and TV and gaming chair and that’s all he wants haha. They used to share a room and after some time it got impossible. When they’re younger I think it’s totally fine, but after about 8-9 it’s overwhelming.
I think sharing a room is great and then down the road there can be some sort of way to figure it out or they can just share until they leave the house honestly. We have the same time of house one bedroom is big one small. They share for now and I’m thinking they may just share the room permanently .
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