We have DD1 (6), DS (4) & baby DD2 (6mo). For now, the baby sleeps in our room but we’d like to move her into her own room over the next few months. The dilemma is, we have 3 bedrooms upstairs and a 4th (/reception room) downstairs. It’s a weird layout but the rooms/house are big and spacious - this was the compromise to get a house the size we wanted!
my question is, would it be wildly dangerous/mean/isolating to give DD1 the downstairs bedroom? It’s big and light, but I’m worried she’ll feel scared or lonely downstairs on her own. She’s quite sensitive (which is why I haven’t asked her opinion yet) but also sensible and not particularly wild.
I don’t really want me and DH to move downstairs, at least until DD2 is older and doesn’t need us so much at night. And I would rather that the kids don’t share unless there’s no option, mainly because the older ones sleep well and I don’t want them disturbed by a toddler.
YANBU - DD1 will be fine downstairs, you’re overthinking it and loads of kids sleep on different floors to their parents
YABU - it’s not safe to have a 7 yo on her own downstairs (I say 7 as she likely will be by the time we’d move her).
for full disclosure, my parents slept up a different staircase to me when I was a child! (Tiny cottage, not a mansion 🤣) but my sibling was in the room next door to me and it never occurred to us to mind.