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Do your children share a bedroom? Should they have their own rooms?!

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Mum8476200 · 12/05/2025 09:28

Advice/opinions please -

We currently live in a large two bedroom house which has the opportunity to become a 3 (would be a box room, small double and then a large double).
We are wanting to move and swap to a more convenient area. We have found a lovely home, perfect area etc. Both rooms are doubles but are a bit smaller than ours but do have large cupboards in both. The smaller double has a double walk in wardrobe basically and the larger double has a cupboard you can stand in with storage each side. The house couldn't be turned into a 3 bed. We'd give our two children the bigger room and we'd have the smaller double.
I'm wondering if its unfair to move to a property where the children (both girls) will always have to share or it's better to wait for a 3 bedroom house to swap to.

I'm feeling immense pressure for them to have their own rooms, so my question is how many of your children share and how old are they? Do they care about sharing? Has it caused problems in the teenage years?
My family keep saying they will know no different if they have always shared but I don't know):

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TheNightingalesStarling · 12/05/2025 09:32

It will depend on personality. My elder, quiet DD became stressed sharing with her boisterous younger sister when they were 7&5. Their relationship improved vastly when they had their own space.

However there are clever solutions for splitting a room without actually turning it into two bedrooms.

LilDeVille · 12/05/2025 09:36

I really think as they get older they need their own rooms. Obviously if you must then you share, but ideally I’d find a way to get them separate rooms. Even if they’re tiny rooms - my kids only sleep in their rooms and always play downstairs, so a small bedroom should be fine. Imagine being a teen and having nowhere in the house to get privacy/peace/headspace other than the bathroom, and then no doubt being shouted at for hogging the bathroom!

My boys shared until they were 8&6, would have been looking to get them separate rooms by the time the oldest was 10 that’s for sure.

Mum8476200 · 12/05/2025 09:58

LilDeVille · 12/05/2025 09:36

I really think as they get older they need their own rooms. Obviously if you must then you share, but ideally I’d find a way to get them separate rooms. Even if they’re tiny rooms - my kids only sleep in their rooms and always play downstairs, so a small bedroom should be fine. Imagine being a teen and having nowhere in the house to get privacy/peace/headspace other than the bathroom, and then no doubt being shouted at for hogging the bathroom!

My boys shared until they were 8&6, would have been looking to get them separate rooms by the time the oldest was 10 that’s for sure.

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Thank you! This is what I'm thinking, I feel when they are older they need their own space. Is it worth moving to this home for their primary years as they are only 1 and 3 currently and then moving again in the future? This house would be walking distance to school/preschool, closer to family etc.

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