Children in box room

[ionising]

I have read discussions from parents about children sharing a room. Hiw many of you have children in a box room?

My dd is 10 and a loy of her friends have a huge double.

She asked to swop with me? Absolutely not!

My sister grew up in the box room. I had the double.
AIBU to feel bad? I know its a first world problem.

My (single) mum always took the box room and my brother and I swapped who got the bigger room when we moved (three houses in our childhood). It made sense because she only used her room to sleep whereas we were in ours a lot.

Surely it just depends on what you can manage and afford? If the only space is a box room then it’s fine.
I have 3 sharing a room. They are fine and like sharing. We have another room but they’ve chosen to be in together. People over think these things.

My sister in law slept in a single cabin bed until she got married - her bedroom was miniscule and that was the only option for sleep and storage!

My husband was in the box room at his parent's home until he left and we moved in together at 25. It happens, it doesn't do any harm.

We have a 3 bed and ds2 in a box room, can't remodel to make it bigger and can't afford the 50,000 plus it would cost to move somewhere with 3 or 4 bigger rooms. Nearly everyone I know with 2 plus children has one in a box room. I thought it was pretty standard.

I had the box room when I lived at home, was big enough for a 3/4 bed and nothing else 😂 I had to use the spare cupboard over the stairs to keep a set of drawers in and ordered a clothes rail off ebay and installed that in there too for added clothes storage. I mounted a TV on the wall and that was my bedroom until I moved out at 23. My 5 month old son is currently in the box room and he will stay there until the kids are old enough to discuss swapping rooms etc.

Good god my parents few up in a room and kitchen and a single end in the Gorbals in Glasgow - a box room would’ve been a luxury there.

I’m sure a child will be fine in the box room 🤣

*grew up

Lottie your room is cute. My dd looks huge now. She can fit a wardrobe and a dressing table in it.

DS is not yet two and in the box room. The plan is to move him to a double shortly before he starts school, and move DSS into the box room. This is a few years off yet, and DSS will be just about to start secondary. He is more than happy with this plan because he understands that when he's 11 and his brother is 4, his brother will need the space more than him (He is with us 50% of the time). We may have also bribed him by saying that when he moves to the box room, he can have his own TV and games console. Whoops.

Lottie your room is cute.

Thank you 😊 but when it was filled with a 17 year olds possessions it wasn’t so cute, believe me! But as I said I have no emotional scarring and hold no grudges 😂

@ionising
She is cheeky. I don’t for one minute think she thought it would happen.

Cheeky because she would like to have more space for homework, playing, having friends over?

There are two of us and one of her.

And what exactly do you need a lot of space in a bedroom for? What activities that don't involve lying on the bed or changing clothes do you engage in regularly there?

For adults a bedroom is most of the time just for sleeping, sex, changing clothes, maybe watching tv or reading.
A child's room is their living, learning and entertaining space, not just for sleeping.