Boy and girl sharing?

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Help! Until what age would you consider it advisable to have a boy and a girl sharing the same room in bunk beds?

They are currently very young. My own view was until around 7 or 8, what do you think? They are 20 months apart and the girl is the older child.

My 5yo DS and DD,2.5yrs have been sharing in bunk beds for about 4-5 months, it is mostly fine, although whoever wakes earlier does tend to wake up the other-they are both pretty sound sleepers through the night though, if one wakes and calls us it rarely disturbs the other. DS1 was in a cabin (raised) bed from 3.5 so is used to being up high.

My sisters 3 kids shared until her dd was 10 and her ds's (2 of them) were 6 and 5. They didnt have much choice as they were in a 2 bed house at the time. They have since moved and her dd has her own room and the 2 boys share.

My dd and ds are still sharing happily at 10 (dd) and 7 (ds) but dd is in the process of moving to her own room now. They are brilliant together and they have shared, through choice, for many years.

Exactly who told your friend that each sex must have their own room after age 7 Strawberries? Don't make me laugh.

Age 10 here, just before hormones started creeping in. Any guidelines are what council housing state in allocation of houses and the number of bedrooms. There's no official line.

I would think that that is foster children then rather than the norm.

Perhaps you should have made that clear when you posted strawberries.

I am not grumpy! You sound rather defensive.

How can there be a "rule" about different sex children sharing bedrooms in private houses? The op has not said she is a foster carer.

I heard that around age 9 was the "cut off" but mine still share (11 and 8) on holidays etc.

Moira

I shared with my brother (2yrs younger) until I was about 10 IIRC. Neither of us is emotionally damaged by this and we quite enjoyed the company v

my sister was in a council house and the cut off point was around the age of 11 and then they would be counted as being overcrowded. Unfortunately they didnt have enough 'points' other than for that so they hadnt been offered a bigger house and ended up having to move house and rent privately.

thanks for all the responses, they have really helped. the reason for the question is we are buying a house and it only has 3 beds and no room to expand. we want to hire an au pair at some point to help out.

i shared with my sister until i was 11 and it was fine.