Help me figure out room sharing?

[Anonymous]

We have a 3 bedroom house and aren’t looking to move anytime soon. DS 7 and DD 4 have always had their own rooms but now I’m pregnant with baby #3. I realize the timing is terrible and I should have had them closer in age, but things didn’t work out that way. Obviously I’ll keep baby with me for awhile(at least 6+ months) but where do I put him/her after that? With DD 4? Do I make my older two share? If it’s a boy to put him with my DS? 7yr age gap seems way too large, but I guess nearly 5yrs is large too. Ugh, I just don’t know how this is going to work.

[Anonymous]

Older two share for sure

[Anonymous]

Your overthinking it. First, fine out the gender of the baby. If it’s another DD, it’s easy. If not, is one room bigger than the other? Can you put in bunk beds?

[Anonymous]

Do by gender.

[Anonymous]

7 & 4 can share rooms until youngest is out of diapers and sleeping in a single bed. Then reassess. Oldest boy will be 10 then and ideally would get some privacy.

(I shared a room with my two older brothers until I was 8 and oldest was 12z)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:7 & 4 can share rooms until youngest is out of diapers and sleeping in a single bed. Then reassess. Oldest boy will be 10 then and ideally would get some privacy.

(I shared a room with my two older brothers until I was 8 and oldest was 12z)

Agree with this one.. try to come up with some perks for their shared room. pick new comforters or let them each choose a wall color or bunk beds.

[Anonymous]

Have the older two share until the younger is about 2, then have younger two share (regardless of gender). If 3rd is a boy then he can move in with big bro when DD is 9 or 10. It’s fine for pre-pubescent sibs of different genders to share a room. It only gets dicey when the older one hit puberty.

As far as how to “sell” the room sharing yo the older two, just explain that in a family we have to share. Get bunk beds and separate dressers and look for other spaces in the house where they can play so they don’t always have to be in one another’s space (e.g., in our playroom we put two small dining tables so our older two can each have their own workspace for projects, etc. on top and I hung fabric from the sides so that they can each have their own little cave underneath with some throw pillows).

[Anonymous]

The 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter, under no circumstances, should be forced to share a room! If the new one is a boy the 7 yr old should not have to share a room with a baby! Your other children should not have to be inconvenienced or suffer from your stupidity or cheapness on not moving to a larger house. Keep the new kid in your bedroom until you move to a larger house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter, under no circumstances, should be forced to share a room! If the new one is a boy the 7 yr old should not have to share a room with a baby! Your other children should not have to be inconvenienced or suffer from your stupidity or cheapness on not moving to a larger house. Keep the new kid in your bedroom until you move to a larger house.

Ignore this one...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter, under no circumstances, should be forced to share a room! If the new one is a boy the 7 yr old should not have to share a room with a baby! Your other children should not have to be inconvenienced or suffer from your stupidity or cheapness on not moving to a larger house. Keep the new kid in your bedroom until you move to a larger house.

Oh, calm down. Plenty of perfectly happy and functional adults shared rooms with siblings. My husband shared with his 5 years younger sister until he was 8 or 10. I agree to have the older kids share at first and reassess when the new baby is old enough for a real bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The 7 year old son and 4 year old daughter, under no circumstances, should be forced to share a room! If the new one is a boy the 7 yr old should not have to share a room with a baby! Your other children should not have to be inconvenienced or suffer from your stupidity or cheapness on not moving to a larger house. Keep the new kid in your bedroom until you move to a larger house.

I live in a five bedroom house. My kids share a room because it's good for them. Pipe down.

[Anonymous]

Put the two existing kids together. Ignore people who say kids of separate genders can't share a bedroom.

[Anonymous]

I have a seven y/o DS and 4 y/0 DD and they share a room, despite the fact that they each have their own room. 4 y/o "moved in" to her brother's room sometime last summer and both refuse to go back to separate rooms. It's fine. They are cute. Amazingly they have gotten even closer during the shutdown.