3 bedroom house, 3 kids. How to arrange?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fairest thing to do for your kids is to have the baby sleep in your room until he consistently STTN.

+1. Don’t put an arbitrary 6 month deadline. And stop having kids!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy a set of bunk beds. For right now, set up nursery in one room, bunks in another. Baby goes into nursery, older kids enjoy the bunks.

Once baby is ready for a bed (2-3 years from now), your then-11 year old girl will love getting her own room, and the then-6 yo will be ready to take the top bunk with his younger sibling on the bottom. If your youngest turns out to be a climbing daredevil, unbunk the beds for a bit.

This! I wouldn’t even consider any other arrangement right now

This is also what I would do.

[Anonymous]

Plan to separate girls and boys eventually.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy a set of bunk beds. For right now, set up nursery in one room, bunks in another. Baby goes into nursery, older kids enjoy the bunks.

Once baby is ready for a bed (2-3 years from now), your then-11 year old girl will love getting her own room, and the then-6 yo will be ready to take the top bunk with his younger sibling on the bottom. If your youngest turns out to be a climbing daredevil, unbunk the beds for a bit.

This! I wouldn’t even consider any other arrangement right now

This is also what I would do.

+3

Me too.

But I would also keep open the possibility that if new baby is a girl and you stay in a 3 bedroom long term, the girls may need to share instead.

[Anonymous]

We live in a 2 bedroom apartment as do millions of families in this country. Some people must be out of the loop, despite claiming to be so "woke." Girl / boy are 8 and 5 and will share a room until girl is 12. We are saving for a 3-BR apartment or a house.

Jeez louise. My mom and her younger sister shared not only a room but a bed until my mom moved out at 21 and got married.

I now understand when people say others are living in a bubble.

[Anonymous]

We were a large family that mirrored the Brady Bunch. 3 girls in one room, 3 boys in the other. No one even thought twice. That was just our family as well as many others we knew in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a 2 bedroom apartment as do millions of families in this country. Some people must be out of the loop, despite claiming to be so "woke." Girl / boy are 8 and 5 and will share a room until girl is 12. We are saving for a 3-BR apartment or a house.

Jeez louise. My mom and her younger sister shared not only a room but a bed until my mom moved out at 21 and got married.

I now understand when people say others are living in a bubble.

There is a difference between two girls sharing a room and a girl/boy especially as they get older. You can probably afford to get a 3 bedroom apartment but it would requiring moving and it may not be the exact location you want. I have an almost 12 year old boy. He's a great kid but no way would I be ok with him sharing with a teenage sister for many reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We were a large family that mirrored the Brady Bunch. 3 girls in one room, 3 boys in the other. No one even thought twice. That was just our family as well as many others we knew in the neighborhood.

The issue is gender, not kids sharing rooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Buy a set of bunk beds. For right now, set up nursery in one room, bunks in another. Baby goes into nursery, older kids enjoy the bunks.

Once baby is ready for a bed (2-3 years from now), your then-11 year old girl will love getting her own room, and the then-6 yo will be ready to take the top bunk with his younger sibling on the bottom. If your youngest turns out to be a climbing daredevil, unbunk the beds for a bit.

This! I wouldn’t even consider any other arrangement right now

This is also what I would do.

+3

Me too.

But I would also keep open the possibility that if new baby is a girl and you stay in a 3 bedroom long term, the girls may need to share instead.

-1

I wouldn’t expect my tween daughter to share a bedroom with her younger brother—and I have a girl (9) and two boys (7 and 5).

I might do this scenario, but only for another year or so, and then put the youngest two together. Or, keep the baby in your room longer and let the older two stay apart. Trust me, if your oldest is still a poor sleeper at age 8, you do not want to deal with a sleep deprived older kid *and* a newborn. Shudder.

[Anonymous]

growing up our neighbors had 5 boys and one girl. So the boys in one room (bunks, of course) and girl has her own room. I do believe the boys had the "master" bedroom and girl had the smallest -- more like a nursery- room.

[Anonymous]

No one is saying put two opposite sex teens together. No where did I read that here.

[Anonymous]

I love these room splitting bunks. https://www.mattressnut.com/bunk-bed-room-dividers/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in a 2 bedroom apartment as do millions of families in this country. Some people must be out of the loop, despite claiming to be so "woke." Girl / boy are 8 and 5 and will share a room until girl is 12. We are saving for a 3-BR apartment or a house.

Jeez louise. My mom and her younger sister shared not only a room but a bed until my mom moved out at 21 and got married.

I now understand when people say others are living in a bubble.

You have “issues” or at minimum poor reading comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love these room splitting bunks. https://www.mattressnut.com/bunk-bed-room-dividers/

Those are huge rooms. You put up a real wall in that situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The fairest thing to do for your kids is to have the baby sleep in your room until he consistently STTN.

+1. Don’t put an arbitrary 6 month deadline. And stop having kids!

+2