Do you find it weird when parents have more kids then bedrooms?

Question

And girls would have to share with the other sisters and boys with their brothers etc, or do you think it helps bond them?

Answer 1

I don't think it is weird. Some people enjoy parenthood so much that they want to have several kids. I myself only want 3 but other people want more.

Answer 2

Nah, it's not weird. Of course, I might just be saying that because I bought a house with 3 bedrooms knowing I wanted 3 or 4 children (which means they'd have to share, lol). I grew up with 2 younger brothers. Their cribs were in my room. When they were old enough for a "big boy bed," they got their own room. They continued to share a bedroom for the remainder of our childhood while I had my own (being a girl). I think it helps kids bond when they're of the same gender. My brothers, who insisted they hated each other growing up, still shared secrets and memories with one another that I didn't. As adults they're much closer. If you can afford to give each kid their own room, go for it. If not, sharing is okay. It's worked for centuries with all sorts of different cultures.

Answer 3

No, I do not think it is weird at all. In fact, I have a daughter and a son (approximately 2 1/2 years apart) and they shared a room for a while.

They are now 9 and 7, and we are expecting another daughter who will, eventually, share a room with her older sister (the baby will share a room with us, her parents, for the first year or so).

I do believe they are closer because they shared a room. They have their own rooms now, of course, but I do not think it was wrong for them to share when they were younger even though they were of the opposite gender, and I see nothing wrong with siblings of the same gender sharing a room for as long as they live at home. So long as they have their own bed all is well...and I even shared a full size bed with my sister growing up and I did not see that as a problem either, so even your own bed is not a necessity.

There may be some benefits to children having their own room, but I do not think either way is right or wrong. Whatever works for the family.

Answer 4

Not at all! My boys share a room. We have three bedrooms but they just like sharing the room and I couldn't think of separating them. We don't use the other room for anything really it's just another room. LOL! Crazy, huh?

When my sister and I were growing up we chose to share a room. We had three bedrooms also and we wanted to share. I don't really know why. Maybe it just has to do with siblings in our family.

Although, my husband's family was the same. He had a sister who would sleep in his [queen size] bed during thunderstorms and just because. No, there wasn't anything nasty going on they just enjoyed talking. She slept with her head at the foot of the bed and he slept with his head at the top of the bed. It was really sweet. They had a five bedroom house!

I think it's a good thing to have an option for kids to have their own rooms but in no means is it weird for kids to share. I think it does help them bond!

Answer 5

I don't think it's weird at all. If kids older then 5 are sharing a room with an oposite sex sibling, that would be weird, but if you hard 4 kids, 2 boys and 2 girls, and three bedrooms, what's wrong with that?

Answer 6

Thats a sort of loaded question. Not all parents mean for that to happen...some have a child "by accident" so to say..or they adopt when they didn't really plan to. But some parents have them share a room so that they become closer, which doesn't really always work out because they end up killing each other...but it also may help the parents teach their kids to how to deal with someone else always there and to value their rooms and space so that when they actually do get their own rooms they use the space wisely and keep it clean and really cherish it instead of trashing it, which is a good life lesson for when the kid ends up living in some tiny apartment with a messy roommate.

Answer 7

It's not weird at all. Houses are expensive, the more bedrooms they have, the more they cost. Even though there are struggles and arguments, sharing a room does bond kids. Great memories are often created by siblings lying in bed, talking and giggling when they should be sleeping.

Answer 8

I think it is much much weirder when people have far more bedrooms than kids. Like someone with a family of 3 kids and they have a 14 room house with 6 bedrooms. I don't see any problem with kids sharing a room. I think it's great for kids to have some sort of space they can call their own but, I don't think it's a big deal to be sure each child has their own room.

Answer 9

I think that people who think each child should have their own bedroom are weird. I grew up with 6 sisters and 4 brothers. If each of us had our own bedroom, we wouldn't have had the late night whispered conversations discussing boys, dating, sex, clothes, child care etc. that helped us develop into the selfless considerate successful adults that we have all become. When I moved out on my own, I was very lonely not to have a room mate to keep me company.

Answer 10

I don't find it weird at all. My boys shared a room when they were younger and they loved it. When we finally added on to the house, they chose to remain together until they were teens. Even now, there are times when we will find one camped out on the floor of the other's bedroom, just hanging out and talking. I don't know if it was the room sharing or just brotherhood that makes them close.

Answer 11

It helps with creating a more close knit family. I grew up with 4 other bros and sis and we all get along fine. If they are always seperated then their is not as close a bond. If you compare for example latinos and white families. Latino families are usually bigger and real close. They usually even live close by each other as adults and frequently visit each other. But if you look a white families with a small family, usually the oldest goes out to college in another state and they rarely if ever see each other. Latinos even when they go to college they try to stay close so they can help out their family and spend time, as to where I see a lot in white families that as soon as the teen is 18 they are gone to start their own life.