Why don’t kids share bedrooms anymore? Why is it considered shocking or abusive to suggest that kids could share one?

[Anonymous]

For those who have had opposite sex children sharing rooms, when did they start feeling ready for their own rooms? (In our particular case, my daughter is 2.5 years older than my son. They’re currently sharing voluntarily / by choice (we have another bedroom), but I’m wondering at what point they will start wanting to have their own rooms

[Anonymous]

My dd is 2.5 yrs older than my ds. She's 7 and he's 4.5 and they're very happy sharing a room. I've mentioned a third bedroom (we'd have to carve it out of our den/their current playroom) and DD looked at me like I was crazy to suggest she'd ever not want to share a room with her younger brother. Where I am some kids share through high school-- even different sexes-- bc real estate is so expensive. But it seems like most families we know make it work until the older kid approaches high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know what you're talking about. Some of my kids share a room. I know two of the kids across the street share a bedroom too.

My girls shared a room for about 3 years. Even more shocking than that, I’ve shared a room with two of my kids as preschoolers.

[Anonymous]

My twin boys (10 years old) share a bedroom. What's the big deal?! You don't spend most of your time in your bedroom anyway. But then I am European, so maybe just have a different mentality and do not have the means to own a large property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those who have had opposite sex children sharing rooms, when did they start feeling ready for their own rooms? (In our particular case, my daughter is 2.5 years older than my son. They’re currently sharing voluntarily / by choice (we have another bedroom), but I’m wondering at what point they will start wanting to have their own rooms

My 10 year old is just about ready for her own room. I fully expect her and her little brother to still have sleepovers in each others’ room after that happens, because I know they’ll miss each other

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids share a room. We live in a 4 br house but have 2 home offices taking up 2 of the bedrooms.

This seems pretty selfish.

Selfish for kids to learn that the people who work and bring in money to support them need office space? Americans are something else.

[Anonymous]

Literally no one thinks sharing bedrooms is shocking or abusive.

[Anonymous]

In general, fewer kids share bedrooms because there are practically no kids being born. Latest birth rate is 1.66 or something crazy low.