Ok, we live in a 3 bed house. Have 2 daughters age 8 and 10 and a son age 8 months.
The eldest daughter is very much growing up. She is more like a VERY sensible and mature young teen, into makeup, fashion, music etc etc, she is very mature, clever and helpful and definitely likes her own time and space.
Whereas the 8 year old acts more like a 4 year old. she is still into “Tiny pop” on SKY/Virgin (UK) and baby toys, programs, clothes, still speaks like a 4 year old and acts like one most of the time. SHe drives her sister up the wall, she wont leave her alone and doesn’t like to be on her own. (I dont mean this in a nasty way its just the way she is.!!)
Then theres my son who is 8 months, he sleeps through the night, my 8 year old gets on great with him, will play with him and keep him entertained for hours! will give him his bottle in the morning if he wakes etc (he feeds himself in his cot).
Now our house has two master type bedrooms and one box room (the length and width is about the same as the length of a single bed, maybr 6ft?)
The sleeping arrangements currently are:
BACK BEDROOM – myself and partner (used to be girls room but we gave them the bigger one.
FRONT BEDROOM – the two girls share in bunk beds.
BOX ROOM – my son.
Now I have been thinking for a while that I have wanted to give my eldest daughter her own room and she has also asked me herself. We spoke about it earlier and my 8 year old agreed and said she would love to share a room with her brother. Do you think it would be ok for my 8 yo daughter and 8 mo son to share their room?
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Ok, we live in a 3 bed house. Have 2 daughters age 8 and 10 and a son age 8 months.
The eldest daughter is very much growing up. She is more like…
6 replies on “Opposite sexed siblings sharing a room?”
The oldest should have her own room I think. The youngest one is still a baby so I think that it is o.ok.
yes as long as their young
Well, considering the ages I would think its fine, but as they get older, you’ll have to find some way to fix the situation. Giving the eldest daughter the room would seem more of a stall than an actual solution lol
My mum did exactly this when i was at home.
I was the oldest, and was given a box room, we were in bunk beds too.
The baby boy, who was about 11months i think, was moved into my little sisters bedroom, who was about 11 at the time.
Worked great!
Obviously it wouldnt be fair at all if baby didnt sleep through xx
i think thats thats a great idea. If they get along great, then there are no worrys. there might be problem with crying though. I(f your daught gets annoyed by crying, you should move the baby to the eldest daughter, if she is mature as you say, then she will be o.k. with it, and maybe get along with it greatly.
That sounds fine. The boy is still very young, and so is the girl, so it should work out well for at least a couple years. My brother and sister shared a room for many years, until they were about 7 and 10.