Benefits to young kids sharing a bedroom
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Anonymous
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My kids are exactly two years apart. Once my youngest is around 1.5 we were thinking of putting the kids in the same bedroom. I always shared a bedroom with my sister when I was a kid and loved it. Plus my parents did books and bed routine just once for both of us.
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Anonymous
| I spent my entire childhood sharing a room with my sister (3 years apart); when we moved and were offered our own bedrooms, we still chose to share. She‘s my best friend and we had many great memories of nights spent chatting. It also prepared us for college and roommates after graduating. |
Anonymous
| My girls (6.5 and 4.5) share a room. They have been together in the same room for 2 years now. We love it! They keep each other company and neither is afraid or looks for us. I hope it lasts. Before sleeping in the same room one girl slept with me and the other with my husband in separate rooms. They were both scared and used to that. It was a very very easy transition. I am planning to move my baby (maybe) with them when he turns 2 next year... we’ll see Because he is a boy and much younger... |
Anonymous
| I have three girls in one bedroom. We decided to create a reading corner in our bedroom so if one of them wants alone time they can go in there and get it. Some kids will love it and some will hate it. Just because it worked for you doesn't mean it will work for your kids. You have to watch how things are going and adjust as needed. Generally one benefit is they learn sharing and compromise. |
Anonymous
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My girls (5 & 6.5) have been sharing a room since the youngest was about 10 months. It’s been great. They are on the same bedtime routine, have learned how to fall asleep and stay asleep no matter the noises their sister makes, and listening to them talk to each at her at night is so cute.
During the day, that have a shared responsibility to keep the room clean and they have to learn to compromise when it comes to playing in and organizing the room. We expect that may want to be in separate rooms as teenagers, but for now it’s awesome. |
Anonymous
| My three boys technically each have their own bedroom. The baby is still in his own room in a crib, but the older two (6 and 4) choose to sleep together in the older one’s bed (it’s a King). I do not see a time in the near future when they won’t choose to sleep together. |
Anonymous
| I was considering putting my two boys together (6&4) but we decided not to even though it costs us a fair bit to keep their own rooms. They're just too different and it wouldn't be fair to them. However, if they were more similar in personality or at least interests then I'd probably consider it more. |
Anonymous
| We moved our 2yr old DD in with our 4yr old DS last year and it’s honestly been great. I got the idea after watching Mary Poppins and reading Peter Pan!! Now we use my DD’s old room as a playroom. Obviously when they’re older we’ll go into two rooms again but right now they both sleep better and we do one nightly routine. |
Anonymous
| My 3 and 5 year old have always shared a room and love it. They have two beds but usually sleep together. I am expecting any day now and they fully expect and want the new baby to sleep there too, which isn’t going to happen. |
Anonymous
| Four year old and almost 2 year old share a room. It's awful for us. The 2yo wakes up crazy early, and his brother is a light sleeper and gets woken up and then can't fall back asleep. Once they are both awake its jumping on the beds, laughing, being crazy, so I have to get them up. Just one I can control, but the 2 together is a nightmare. Poor DS 1 is tired all the time. If we had any other choice they would have separate rooms. Some kids can share a room, others not so much. Doesn't hurt to try, but I wouldn't put yourself in the position of having no other choice. |
Anonymous
| 1.5 DD & 4.5 DS never shares a room. Their wakeup & sleep schedule are not exactly the same. If I put them in the same room, one kid is going to suffer. However, sometimes when DD does not want to go to bed, I find out that she compromises when I put her to sleep next to DS. |
Anonymous
Put the two year old back in your room for awhile. |
Anonymous
+1. Separate bedrooms for young children is a relatively new concept. Prior to suburban sprawl, even the wealthiest families kept all young children in a “nursery”. I hope it works out for my B/G kids when the newborn is older and STTN. I think it’s natural to want to sleep with someone nearby. |
Anonymous
| I shared a room with my sister (who is four years older than me) until I was in high school. She was very, ahem, fast...? Once I was about 11 or 12 it got really, really hard. Constant personality clashing. She eventually started just sleeping on the couch until she went away to college. Don’t do it to your kids |
Anonymous
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I’m two years younger than my brother and we shared a room from when I was about 3 to when he left for college. We got along for better or worse but once we were a little older we definitely forged a really strong bond. I highly recommend it.
Looking back, obviously there was lots of petty stupid stuff that went between us as a natural consequence of sharing the same space.. I’m sure that was hard on my parents. It didn’t help that part of the reason we shared a room was because we didn’t have the means of a lot of other families where we grew up. My brother died a month ago after a short and sudden bout with cancer. He was in his mid 30s. I feel like I’ve lost a piece of myself. But I’m more glad now that I had all that time to be so close to him. If you count the hours we were asleep, I spent more time with him than anyone else in either of our lives. That’s tough to beat. |