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[quote=Anonymous]Would love some advice. We have 7.5 year old and 2 year old DD’s. We have a playroom where we keep the younger one’s toys but my older one loves to arrange elaborate set ups for her dolls, animals and little figures so we have her do that in her room so the 2yo doesn’t destroy it all daily. This was fine for a while but now our 2yo knows her sister has so much fun stuff in her room and constantly wants to go in there. It’s a constant struggle because our older one doesn’t want the younger one in her room (because she does mess things up) and telling our younger one that she can’t go in there 50 times per day has resulted in non-stop tantrums. Our house is all on one floor so there is no way to prevent the younger one from going to her older sister’s door and banging on it. Part of the problem is that DD sets everything up on the floor so it’s in reach of her little sister and won’t put things on her dresser so she can’t get to them. For the past week we have been telling older DD that she has to let younger DD in her room so we don’t make it a constant battle with the younger one and older DD has been extremely frustrated that her stuff is constantly being moved around or knocked down. I totally understand her frustration on the one hand, but am not sure it’s reasonable for her sister to just never be allowed in her room. DH and I always try to clean things up and help reset her play schemes but she says we don’t do it right.

I am curious how others handle younger siblings wanting their older siblings’ stuff and to be in their space. Are their rooms 100% off limits? Or is this an instance where the older one needs to suck it up and learn to share? Guessing it’s some mix of both but don’t where to draw the line... and everyone being home 24/7 has made this a multiple times per day battle.[/quote]

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