Would you let your kids do this?

If you didn’t grow up having to share a bedroom into your teens, you have no idea what that experience is actually like. Sharing a bedroom with your little sister is pretty untraumatic when you’re five and your sister is three, but as you age, it can be a real pain to basically never have a moment alone, even when you’re sleeping. Having your own bedroom is undoubtedly a privilege when you’re a child, so if you’re one of those kids who grew up not having to beg your brother to stop playing video games at 2 AM on a school night, you’re a lucky duck. 

There are certainly levels to sharing a room with siblings. It’s much easier to share a room when you’re only a couple of years apart from your sibling. If you’re a teenager sharing a room with kids who are still in Elementary school, it can make an already fraught sibling relationship even more challenging to manage. It’s also more difficult to share a room with a sibling you aren’t particularly close with. You can’t force siblings to be close just by putting them in the same bedroom, and it’s likely to fracture the relationship further if neither sibling wants to do it. But sometimes, you have no other choice! If you can only afford a 2-bedroom house and you have two kids, they have to share a room!

The kids in this story are 11, 12, and 14, and shockingly, the older two kids are enthusiastic about sharing a room with each other! The only problem is that the 14-year-old is a boy, the 12-year-old is a girl, and their mom isn’t sure that arrangement would age well.