We don’t have a playroom

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Someone please reassure me this is normal? Stupidly getting mum guilt over it as I watch tik toks of people rearranging their playrooms after Christmas !

Our house is a bit of a squeeze. Open plan downstairs but thank goodness for Ikea kallax that helps store so much! But we pay 2 sets of nursery fees so moving isn’t imminent

We’d love a bigger house and I dream of an extra room downstairs for my kids to have all their toys laid out! Ours isn’t majorly organised I try to rotate them etc

but yes - please tell me lots of you don’t have playrooms???

Toys downstairs in the lounge when children were under nursery/ school age then up in their rooms. Lounge and dining room then used for family meals/ time together

And unless the OP is blind, she'll know this.

Or does she look at the millions of flats/high rise blocks in the UK and assume they all have playrooms? 🙄

I have two kids and only one room which serves as a kitchen, lounge, dining room and playroom. They share a bedroom, aged 2 and 7. No it's not normal to have a playroom! I dream of having a separate lounge, let alone a playroom.

We have one but barely used apart from short period when they were very young. Now 10 & 11. The whole house is their playroom. It's a tip but they're happy.

Please don’t feel guilty that your kids share a room. I shared a room growing up and I have very fond memories of my childhood. The thought of children sleeping alone at night seems a bit sad to me. In other cultures young children don’t sleep alone either.

Please, please. Do yourself and your family a favour and step away from Tik Tok and Instagram. It's all aspirational bollocks.

No child will die, or even be ostracised by their peers, because their parents didn't *reorganise the playroom" when they were a toddler.

We technically have a playroom. It never got used, so now it’s just a second living area. Still doesn’t get used much. We tend to be all together in the living room or dining room.

More than likely, I’m just grateful to have a roof over my head with a bedroom for my daughter and myself plus all the other essentials we need to survive. Social media has a lot to answer for and people are always left wanting more than they’ve got not actually just being grateful for what they do have.

I grew up in 3 bedroom houses. Sometimes my sister and I had a bedroom each.

Sometimes we shared a room so that we could turn the other bedroom into a playroom. We had read too much Enid Blyton and there was no other way of getting one.

At least we didn't ask our mum and dad why we didn't have a gardener, a cook and a maid called Jane like the children in so many of the stories that we read. 🤣

Op, I'm sure the number of families with space for a playroom are very much in the minority.

Comparison is the thief of joy - it really is. I didn’t have one growing up, nor did any of my friends and we didn’t lack a good time. My children do have a small space, but honestly - they would 100% rather be in the living room or kitchen with me than playing in the dedicated space. All they want is time and connection with you - where you have that honestly doesn’t matter at all.

Our playroom is just our dining room that has been completely taken over to the point that the table is just in the basement 😂.

It's perfectly normal not to have a play room. Only the very wealthy can afford excessive space like that. Normal families have a living area and kitchen area which are sometimes the same room and sometimes separate, usually with a dining area in one of these or as a 3rd non-bedroom space, and hopefully enough space for everyone to sleep but not necessarily all with own bedrooms. Anything more than that is obviously very nice for those who can afford it but really very much a luxury extra. Do not judge your success in life by how well you conform to social media hogwash.

Does behind the sofa count? They have a toybox each, a bookcase and a kallax unit, it takes up slightly less than half the livingroom but it means they're in with dh and I.

I like having them with us, as they get older their toys will make their way upstairs to their bedrooms, but this works for us.

I know just one person with a playroom and it was added in with an extension they did. Funnily enough the kids don't play in there, they drag the toys into the living space where their parents are. Essentially it's a toy storage room, no play happens there.
I like the idea of having somewhere to keep the toys that's not in my living room but let's face it, it's a very minor, temporary, problem.
My eldest is 7 now and keeps a lot of stuff in her room and will play in there on her own when she needs a break from her little sister. I can't imagine she'd want to be in a playroom to be honest.
Please don't compare your life to what's on tiktok and the likes, it's very rarely a true representation.

We have a playroom but it is just because we have one more bedroom than we need. She always plays in the lounge.
hoping to fill it with a baby this year!

No playroom here. We are all in the same room all the time - and sometimes I would like a little bit more space! But on the whole it’s lovely to be together.
I had a playroom as a child and spent a lot of time on my own.
I saw something online today that said “my husband set up a camera so I could watch the kids in the playroom and be in peace” and I thought that was so sad TBH.

Forgot to say. I would love what I think the Americans mean when they say a ‘rumpus room’?!
A big space full of soft shapes, ball pit, swing, wall bars, mini trampoline, crash mats etc. I would love that.

We have one but I'm the only person I know with one! They're really not that common.

We had a playroom. It was horrible. It was just like some awful toy emporium, with random sticky stuff and apple cores hidden in toys. We got rid of the playroom to have a guest bedroom and life was better.

We have a playroom but it's where they keep all their toys (3 DC), they don't play in there they prefer to bring things in the living room. They do do craft at the table in there which is handy, but otherwise it's definitely a nice to have thing (keeps rest of the house tidier) absolutely not a necessity at all!! Tiktok is 99% b*llocks isn't it??

We have a living room and a kitchen downstairs. The kitchen doesn't even fit a table!
So the living room has everything in it. Table, computer table, sofa, books, dvds, games, TV... and our toddler's toys are supposed to fit in here too!

It's actually a nightmare. This house is supposed to be for up to 5 people! What a joke.

Stop comparing yourself to what you see in SM.

We do but it’s our main living space too (open plan dining/kitchen/living), we don’t actually use our separate living room very much at all despite initial intentions of relaxing there on a night, I think the living room may become a space for the kids as they get older.

We did have a play room but it was pointless, the kids won’t go in without anyone, which I understand. That’s ok if you can just play all day with them but in most folks lives they need to prep dinner, stick the dishes on and so on. We got rid as kids just took toys out to wherever we were 🤣

No playroom here. Two rooms downstairs: living room and kitchen.
Living room is also the playroom. We live it in. We play in it.

We'll miss it when they're grown. 4yo and 1yo, double nursery bills here too!