How would you set up these rooms?

[Anonymous]

Blended family. We live in small townhouse, 3 beds, but they are very small. We have our dining room being used as a playroom, so no toys in bedroom.

2 boys, 7 and 4, already share a room with bunkbeds. 1 girl, 3, has her own room. Another boy is on his way. Baby will bunk with us until he’s a little older, but then what? Moving isn’t an option. It just isn’t at this time.

Let’s say in two years we move the boys into our room and take their smaller room. That’ll still be a 2, 6, and 9yo sharing a room. Will that work?

[Anonymous]

It did for the Brady Bunch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Blended family. We live in small townhouse, 3 beds, but they are very small. We have our dining room being used as a playroom, so no toys in bedroom.

2 boys, 7 and 4, already share a room with bunkbeds. 1 girl, 3, has her own room. Another boy is on his way. Baby will bunk with us until he’s a little older, but then what? Moving isn’t an option. It just isn’t at this time.

Let’s say in two years we move the boys into our room and take their smaller room. That’ll still be a 2, 6, and 9yo sharing a room. Will that work?

Have the girl share a room with the boy with the largest age gap, so less rivalry. By the time the baby is a toddler, she might like changing again and having a "baby brother" to fuss over and help raise, like a living doll.

This is how my grandparents did it with 11 kids, though there was a 20+ year age gap between the youngest and oldest, but I helped raise a brother who was 9 years younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It did for the Brady Bunch.

The Marsha and Greg thing got weird in the movie version.

[Anonymous]

Put the baby in the room with the youngest, even though it’s boy and a girl. It should for a few years. Then, the three boys get the largest room in a set up that might a temporary wall, so that the teen gets a space for themself.

[Anonymous]

It has to work. Keep the baby with you as long as possible then they get the biggest room, you get the middle and the girl gets the smallest.

[Anonymous]

Put the baby in with the girl for the next 5 years then reassess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put the baby in with the girl for the next 5 years then reassess.

This. Moving in 5 years might be on the table so just wait and see how it goes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put the baby in with the girl for the next 5 years then reassess.

+1.
- mom of 4

[Anonymous]

I'd also look into some birth control.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd also look into some birth control.

But they wanted an "ours" baby!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blended family. We live in small townhouse, 3 beds, but they are very small. We have our dining room being used as a playroom, so no toys in bedroom.

2 boys, 7 and 4, already share a room with bunkbeds. 1 girl, 3, has her own room. Another boy is on his way. Baby will bunk with us until he’s a little older, but then what? Moving isn’t an option. It just isn’t at this time.

Let’s say in two years we move the boys into our room and take their smaller room. That’ll still be a 2, 6, and 9yo sharing a room. Will that work?

Have the girl share a room with the boy with the largest age gap, so less rivalry. By the time the baby is a toddler, she might like changing again and having a "baby brother" to fuss over and help raise, like a living doll.

This is how my grandparents did it with 11 kids, though there was a 20+ year age gap between the youngest and oldest, but I helped raise a brother who was 9 years younger.

Don’t make a tween girls share a room with a toddler. Girl gets her own room, three boys together.

[Anonymous]

Daughter & new baby share a room for a few years, then reassess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Blended family. We live in small townhouse, 3 beds, but they are very small. We have our dining room being used as a playroom, so no toys in bedroom.

2 boys, 7 and 4, already share a room with bunkbeds. 1 girl, 3, has her own room. Another boy is on his way. Baby will bunk with us until he’s a little older, but then what? Moving isn’t an option. It just isn’t at this time.

Let’s say in two years we move the boys into our room and take their smaller room. That’ll still be a 2, 6, and 9yo sharing a room. Will that work?

Have the girl share a room with the boy with the largest age gap, so less rivalry. By the time the baby is a toddler, she might like changing again and having a "baby brother" to fuss over and help raise, like a living doll.

This is how my grandparents did it with 11 kids, though there was a 20+ year age gap between the youngest and oldest, but I helped raise a brother who was 9 years younger.

Don’t make a tween girls share a room with a toddler. Girl gets her own room, three boys together.

The girl is currently 3. She can share with the baby until the baby is 4. You don’t want him to remember sharing a room with her.

[Anonymous]

"Let’s say in two years we move the boys into our room and take their smaller room. That’ll still be a 2, 6, and 9yo sharing a room. Will that work?"

That is the best plan.

Alternatively, you could have the girl share with the baby for a year or two when she is 4/5 and baby is 1/2. Do not put a girl in a room with an older brother or stepbrother. That is not appropriate.