Should we have a sink in a child's room?

[GrendelsMum]

Would you want a sink in a child's bedroom? There's one in the room at present, and I'd quite like to take it out.

I'm told a sink's really useful when they're babies (but the she'd be in with us in our room for quite a lot of that), but then I think about the havoc me and my sisters would have created with a sink in our bedrooms, and my mind boggles. My DH imagines a teenage girl would want a basin to tart herself up - but I say that teenage girls want showers and baths when they're doing the tarting up, not poxy little basins.

What do others think?

No. Sinks in bedrooms are ugly and weird. Bin it.

DD would flood the room a million times before she ever got to teenage tarting up stage.

Toddler + sink = mayhem IMO

My friend had a sink with a cupboard and mirror with lights in her bedrooom which her Dad put in so she could get washed and ready for school without hogging the bathroom for hours on end. It looked good (to my teenaged self).

If there's room an ensuite might be a better idea cos you could put a catch on the door so that they can't go unless you're there.

No
All of the bedrooms in my parents house had sinks in them for some reason. I hated it, it renders a whole corner of the room a bit useless and ugly imo. Especially when the bathrooms only next door

if my todder had sink in his room the house would be flooded!!!

Take it out before you find the little darlings have stuck the plug in, turned the tap on and gone off to play with something else.

No, I think it looks like a cheap B&B and would take up space you could use for something much more useful.

My DS is nearly 2 and loves playing with water, the mess would be horrendous if it was in his bedroom.

There was a sink in DD's room when we moved in, we had it taken out as it looked rubbish.
Also, DD was in our room until 6 months, so we wouldn't really have got the use from it at that point.
DD is now 4 and I dread to think what she would get up to with a sink in her room

Right, that's that decided then.

Frankly, I'd be ashamed of any child of mine that had unsupervised access to a sink and failed to explore the potential for creating their very own lake / sea / waterfall.

I like the suggestion about the en-suite, though - we could take out the sink but leave the plumbing, so we have the potential to create an en-suite with an actual shower in many years time.