To expect 15 year old DD to share a room with the family on holiday?

Of course she doesn’t want to share a room. DH is being ridiculous.

There are a lot of them these days. I tend to wait and see if OP comes back before commenting further.

Not all people are the same. Funny that.

MN what on earth is going on? Another perfectly innocuous post.

My 20 and 17 year olds are sharing a room with us right now. We just take it in turn to use the bathroom and are respectful to each other.

but the OP has never come back to explain what exactly she was talking about.

As said many times here, the type of holiday and details make a big difference.

I wouldn't even spend an actual holiday in one room with my 2 yo! 😂
It's a holiday, not prison. Only a night or 2 would be different.

Period or not, being in the same room as your dad shouldn't be an actual issue.

It definitely does make a difference, think about it, it's not about changing pads.

A fifteen year old is not a child, she needs her own space on holiday period or not.

All bunking in together is for young kids.

I didn't share with my parents once past the being little stage and would have refused had it been suggested when I was a teenager.

Probably for “troll hunting”.

No idea why my perfectly innocuous post was deleted. Certainly didn’t break any talk guidelines.

No way would I have shared a bedroom with parents on holiday.

I agree with this- in only child families (which I was), I think this is pretty standard- I always shared a room with my parents, do people really book a separate room for one teenager?!

I went on holiday with my 2 sons, my sister and her 3 girls (late primary, early teens). The girls really did not use the bedroom just for sleeping.....they were on their 4th outfit before we'd even left for the beach in the morning!
Bedrooms would also be used for some quiet time away from everyone else after a hot day out.
I seem to be an outlier, but I think it's absolutely normal to want your own space. I am by no means affluent - don't tend to do resort/hotel holidays, but airbnbs or holiday lets.

I'm in my 40s and still happily share a hotel room with my Dad if the occasion presents itself. It's not like we're parading around naked anyway, and most of the time it makes no sense to fork out for two rooms when we're only going to use it for sleeping anyway.
Unless there's some massive backstory, I'm with your DH here. You get to dictate room arrangements when you're paying. Otherwise you can suck it up.

We’re a family of 3. Have a teen dd. I would always try to get a one bed apartment but sometimes only a single room is available. Dd15 has no issue sharing a sleeping place (own bed obviously) with me and her dad. We do it several times a year.

you can keep twisting everything I say to fit your little narrative if you want 😂

You seem to find periods very embarrassing, maybe you should work on that? They really are not. If you ever have kids, don't raise them believing it's shameful and to keep secret from MEN. It's quite sad nowadays to be that backward.

Exactly.

DD doesn’t even tell me anymore when she comes on , much less her dad. Only help she needs is “i need more pads/painkillers”. Yes there were more questions, some support given for the first ones , but now she’s pretty much self sufficient.

As for your second paragraph it’s not about pure and clean. WTF? It’s about allowing girls to feel however they want to feel about it and them having the privacy they want/need. Some might need more, some less. Neither is wrong.

@thatgreenjuniper Of course they don’t they have to walk out of the bathroom straight into an area where everyone is sitting or lying in bed. With or without bloody knickers in their hand. Bathrooms in homes don’t generally open onto the sitting room.

You’re labelling the standard purchase of sanpro in the weekly shop as “help” are you? You’re not likely to go to the GP about period pains on holiday. Do you actually have kids?

you are the one making no sense

As long as the bathroom is private, they have the same privacy on holiday as they have at home.

In normal families, teens are not left to buy their own period products and make their own way to the doctor to deal with period pains 😂

the questino is - how enjoyable a holiday will you all have sharing a room and is there another option?

We have to share rooms but I tend to share with youngest and dad with oldest (youngest is autistic so wo'nt share well with sibling) -

I think holidays are meant to be fun?! I would do whatever I could to avoid whole family sharing.

First teens don’t need “help” from a parent with periods but they do need privacy.

Who said anything about a private bathroom? Kids generally use the family bathroom but the parents may have their own. She doesn’t have a brother.

As for the last para - it’s so batshit as to not merit engagement.

but it's HER DAD?

When mum is not home, who is dealing with his daughter's period and helping the way the mum would?

The OP has conveniently refused to give more details about the "holiday", and most people agree that it's pretty grim to share with a 2 year old and your parents.

And can’t figure out the difference between sharing a bathroom with their dad (which actually many girls don’t)
many girls don/t? and with their brothers?
Come on Princess, how many girls do have their own private bathroom, gives us a break.

It's extraordinary how some people push the idea that girls are not pure or should hide when they have their periods, should be embarrassed and should avoid the mere presence of a male, who happens to be their own FATHER.

Me, DH and DD15 are going on holiday this year, her sisters are older and not coming we always booked them and us a room this year will be exactly the same she will have a room to herself. I think if she was sharing with her Dad she wouldn't come with us.