Allotting rooms at beach house - should aunt have to share room with four year old?
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Anonymous
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Ok, moms, give me your perspective.
I am single and childless. going to the beach with my older siblings (both married with two kids each under five) and grandparents. The house has six bedrooms. It is owned by another family member so no rental costs. Here is how I would like to divide the house, and my parents and one sibling are fine with this: In each room would be: - the two grandparents -me - and then each sibling gets two rooms for their family to decide how to divide. My own sibling is planning to sleep in a room with his dw and put his 2 and 5 year old in another room. My other sibling insists that her kids can't share a room. She wants her and dh in one room, her two year old in another, and her four year old in the room with me. I am a light sleeper and like to sleep in on vacations. I doubt I will sleep well with my lovely niece, who snores and likes to get up around six am. My sibling is being very insistent that I am being selfish and need to share my room with her kid. Why can't her kids share a room, or, if they can't share, why can't one parent sleep with one kid and another parent with the other kid? She said that since I am single i don't need my own room. ????? |
Anonymous
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Adults who are not parents do NOT have to share rooms with children.
Why can't ALL the girls sleep in one room and all the boys sleep in another? It'll be a fun cousin slumber party for the kids. |
Anonymous
| No way. You get to have your own room. |
Anonymous
| You are definitely in the right here. Your sibling is being nuts. |
Anonymous
| Awkward! Maybe the three kids can sleep together. I think a single person on vacation deserves their own room, because the 4 year old will also keep you from reading in bed, having quiet time and so on. I would prefer to have my privacy, but I am sure the family will say -- well we do it and you can too! |
Anonymous
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You're an adult. If you want your own room and it's available, then you get one. If you offer to take the 4yr old, then fine. Tell your sister to buzz off.
--oldest of 6 kids who rented a beach house with kids and grandparents last year. |
Anonymous
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Is the 2 year old married? If not, then why does the 2 year old "need" their own room?
I agree that single people don't "need" their own room, in that if you were going to a smaller house it might be reasonable to ask you to share with someone, but the notion that you don't "need" your own room, but a toddler does, is absurd. If there is some kind of special need that prevents the 2 year old from sleeping with anyone, then the 4 year old can bunk with mom and dad, or maybe have a sleepover in the room with their cousins, but the proposal is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
| Everyone else in the house who is an adult gets their own room and you share with a child. So your sib has three rooms. OMG. |
Anonymous
| Ridiculous. You should have your own room. The extra kid can sleep with the parents if their two kids can't share a room. |
Anonymous
+1 (and please share more stories about your sister-the internets need their snark!) |
Anonymous
Maybe the issue is that the siblings keep each other from falling asleep at night. One solution is to separate the siblings for falling asleep, then an adult carries the sleeping child back to his/her bed later in the evening. |
Anonymous
| Your sib can have either the 2 or 4 year old in the room with her and her husband. |
Anonymous
| No way. Let the parents or kids share a room. |
Anonymous
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"owned by another family member"
Who owns? Pay to play. Whoever owns decides. If none of you are the owners, then all is equal and you can insist on your way. |
Anonymous
| Your sis is nuts. I notice that she will not have to share a room with either of her kids under her plan. |