Step children room sharing.

[Lozzle123]

Just wanted people’s thoughts and opinions ...

10 year old step daughter
6 year old step son

They come live with us every set of rest days (shift workers) so 2/3 nights every 6/7 days.

In the future (2-3 years) we are planning to have our own baby but I’m super stressing about sleeping arrangements.

Ideally we would move so they could all have their own rooms but that’s isn’t an option straight away so in the meantime what do we do?

I feel it’s unfair to make step kids share due to age and genders but then would it be fair for either of them to share with a 6month old baby.

Depending on babies gender it could share a room with step child ...!

I know it is a way off but I’d like to know so I could work towards it.... any help opinions or ideas would be greatly appreciated! :)

Thank you for thinking this through so carefully. I’m still picking up the pieces for a child whose other parent didn’t.

I’m also a stepparent. We moved to ensure the kids all had their own, dedicated room by the age of 11. It’s a struggle financially but worth it. Contact arrangements can change for lots of reasons and we now have them more and more. If we’d been in the old house, it would have been unbearable for everyone!

I would plan to have the baby in with you for a year. That gives you three or four years of leeway. Your circumstances could be very different by then so I don’t think you can realistically worry about the nitty gritty of who goes where after.