Anonymous wrote:The oldest will need her own room soon, because she'll be up much later doing homework, etc. So switch them, saying that the oldest needs her own room (not because she refuses to use a light to read a book, omigod), but because she is "almost in middle school, where the homework will be huge".

But that means the oldest gets the SMALLEST room, which might be the 4 yr olds' room. And the 2 who share will get the biggest room, no matter whose that is.

Then, work on converting the loft to a bedroom, and the 9 year old will go there, but that will take a year - no kidding, because nothing happens fast in construction world - and by then the youngest will be 5 and everyone will have own room, so she can deal with it then.

Anonymous wrote:I’d let it ride out.
My DD is an only but at 4 went through the same phase because spouse and I shared a room and we have 2 dogs that sleep together too. We just powered through that her too us her room and that’s where she sleeps and she phased out of it quickly.

Anonymous wrote:You’re giving this way too much attention. Sorry Larla that’s just the way it is, end conversation forever.

Anonymous wrote:You’re giving this way too much attention. Sorry Larla that’s just the way it is, end conversation forever.

Anonymous wrote:I have three girls, ages 11, 9, and 4. We only have three bedrooms in the house and when we had our third, my older two started sharing a bedroom, while my youngest had her own room. Made sense at the time - the gap between the older two is small, their bedtimes are similar and we didn’t want to subject them to sharing a room with a baby. Now though, my four year old keeps complaining that she is the only one in the house that is alone and doesn’t share a room with anyone. She has a point. My husband and I are in one room, her sisters in another and she is in the third room, alone. It’s gotten to the point where bedtime has become really difficult and she wakes us up constantly at night. We now allow her to “sleepover” in her sisters’ room but limit it to weekends and holidays since during school days, her bedtime is an hour earlier than theirs. They all need to wake up at 6:30 am for morning drop off and I can’t drop my toddler off later.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I sometimes think I should have my 11 year old and and 4 year old switch rooms since my 11 year old is so particular about sleep anyways and loves the room being pitch dark. Also my 9 year old doesn’t mind reading with a reading light while my eldest refuses. However I feel this is unfair on my 9 year old who has been begging us to convert the loft into a bedroom (we plan on doing so) so that she can have her own room. Anyways I feel bad for my four year old. I am the eldest and I remember sharing a room with my younger sister who was always comforted by the fact that I was with her in the room. Does anyone have any advice? She already has several stuffies and says they are not real like people because they don’t talk. Her closest friend moved to another school and her cousin who is her age and she grew up with moved abroad. So that’s part of it too.