Would you give en-suite to a toddler or keep it for guests ?

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4 bed house with 3 bathrooms upstairs. 2 en-suite and family bathroom. 1 en-suite is the master bedroom.

Would you give a 2 year old an en-suite now ? Or keep that room for guests and perhaps move the 2 year old into the en-suite when older ?

We have a lot of guests staying over.

As you have lots of guests, I'd have the ensuite room for them right now. So much more convenient for the host family :-)

In 10 years time when toddler is a teen, you can reconsider how the host family enjoys the best benefit from the second ensuite .

We gave our 5 year old the other bedroom with an en suite, she's the one living here and we'll be staying here a long time so she can grow up in that room.
One of the 2 spare rooms is right next to the family bathroom anyway so that's the primary spare bedroom.

Keep the ensuite room for guests, especially as you have lots of guests.

I would never give an ensuite to a toddler or a child who isn't old enough to wash themselves. It's a waste and also a hazard.

Not sure it really depends on the layout. A family bathroom is unavoidable so yes they could access it but a child opening a door and tottering off dorlwn the corridor is a pretty obvious noise and one you're likely to take note of.

Adding an ensuit into the mix just sounds like more trouble than it's worth especially if the OP actually has lots of guests who would be using the room.

No way. I mean having access to a bath is dangerous, I remember someone finding their kid passed out in the bath in the night with the water running.

But also, the mess, I would not give my toddler access to running water and soap without supervision unless I wanted the bathroom to be a flooded slippery mess.

No matter how well behaved you think your kid is, kids are kids.

If the ensuite just had a shower, I'd keep it for guests as we bathed our toddler so that would seem a bit redundant. I would also be a bit concerned about them playing in the bathroom as it's connected to their bedroom (so possibly viewed as an extension of their room).

We would also have the kids grandparents staying if we had a spare room and they would appreciate an ensuite for privacy and night-time toilet trips, so on that basis I would keep for our guests. As a guest that has stayed in a room with an ensuite, it's super helpful as I can leave my makeup and toiletries in there.

If you have another child then only one can have the en-suite ( cue: arguments) so I make mine have the bedrooms with no en-suite and the guest room has the en-suite. They still use that en-suite when we don’t have guest here.

My DD has had her own en-suite since age 1. Never had a single issue with her causing ‘chaos’ or any of these ‘huge risks’ people are talking about. She was in a cot till almost 3 anyway and by that point was more than capable of not trashing the place, she still can barely reach the shower controls age 5. A stair gate can very easily be put across the doorway until they are older if that is a concern. Could just as easily happen in the family bathroom tbh.

We never have guests though as all family stays nearby, so it would have been a total waste of a room for us.

This is our set up. The gears get the en-suite. DC get the family bathroom as their own and it’s next to their room as well.

Spoiler alert: all children are different. Only one of mine could possibly have been trusted with their own bathroom, the other two no way!

When my children got to about the age of 4 they were confident using the toilet themselves and washing their hands afterwards. I didn’t follow them to the bathroom each and every time. Often, they would get up in the night to use the toilet, yes I would hear them, but they were more than capable to sort themselves out. I would get up to check they had got back into bed ok.

if needs be a baby monitor can be put in the room which would alert you they were up and about. Much like if they were to use the family bathroom, you would hear them and can attend to them if necessary.

you can get locks for taps if needs be. Safety measure can be put in place just like they can anywhere in the house.

Guests.

Guests

Yeah my kids are 6&8 and still would not be getting potentially unsupervised access to a bathroom.

to be honest, guests having private bathroom space is wonderful, and when they’re not there then you have a whole other bathroom. So from that pov I wouldn’t be giving it to a single child. Most people I know in this situation use the bathroom full time and let guests have sole use of it when they are around.

Guests

Yeah that’s why I said a baby gate could be used in the event a child cannot be trusted. But thanks for the condescending heads up I had no idea…

Toddler. Reason being they can then contain the tonnes of bath toy crap they accumulate in their own bathroom and the main bathroom can remain clean and tranquil!

My child has an en-suite as we moved when they were 3 (with 2 en-suites). For the record - they have never thrown anything down the toilet, ran the shower in the night or flooded the sink! A family member actually commented that we’d given our child “their” en-suite guest room and that nailed it for me.
Our logic was why waste a bathroom leaving it empty for potentially weeks/months. Plus it was a bigger bedroom too. It works great for all of us as no sharing with sibling and child can nip to the toilet in the night/brush teeth before bed without disturbing others. It’s worked great for us OP.

A toddler with an ensuite! I would not give them one even if we never had guests. Sounds like a recipe for disaster even with well behaved toddlers.

Weird flex but ok

Guests like their own bathroom, toddlers don't. You would also probably prefer not to tidy up your bathroom for guests. And you also wouldn't let your toddler have unsupervised access to a bathroom.

So Guests

... obviously once they are a teen that might change.

I am slightly aghast that anyone would leave a toddler being able to access a shower or bathroom unsupervised. I am not an over protective mum, but I really do not think this is safe,

A toddler with their own bathroom?

Enjoy getting flooded and having to get a plumber out to remove toys from round the toilet u bend on a regular basis.

Not to mention the danger if the ensuite has a bath rather than a shower and your young child decides to go for a bathtub swim in the middle of the night.

Don't give a toddler access to an en-suite not at age 2. It's dangerous

You can always move the bedrooms around later when your DCs are older