So why DON'T people put their children in the same bedroom?

[MrsTittleMouse]

I'm not cheeky enough to ask people in RL, but I'm really curious as no-one we know has put their DC in the same bedroom and we'd like to do just that when this DB is born. Is there some horrible disadvantage that I'm missing?

My boys have always shared (16 & 19 now). dd has her own room. Would be nice for them to have their own rooms but it's not going to happen. I shared until I was 18.

Surely it depends on how much space you have and what the age gaps are?

I had to share a room with my sister, who is 9.5 years my juinior. And I haev to say at the time I ahted it. I desperately wanted my own space, my own privacy. Probably wasn't great for my sister either - she wanted to have toys out and about; I wanted them hidden so they weren't in my space. But it had to be like that - there was no other room for us to use.

Here in Paris children very commonly share bedrooms because, in the older apartments, there tend to be few very large bedrooms.

I have a very rich friend who recently moved into a 420 square metre apartment in the seventh arrondissement and her two younger children still have to share a bedroom, even in an apartment that large.

No-one thinks much of it, IMO.

I don't have a particular problem with it but, I have an older boy and a younger girl, so it seems sensible for them to have their own rooms.

We moved house after we had DS3, so they could have a room each (it wasn't the only reason)

DS2 and DS3 however spend more time sharing, than they do on their own .

DD (4) and DS (nearly 2) have shared since he was about 11 months. We waited until he was sleepong through. It's works well - DD never woke him with any going to bed tantrums, and DS doesn't wake her with his early mornings.

We do have 3 beds, but we use the third as a spare room (family live abroad so lots of visitors)/ office.

It's funny though, isn't it. I only know one other family where the kids share, yet at school loads of kids (including me) shared. Have most houses grown since then? I didn't mind until I was a teenager, but I really would have liked my space then

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