If any of your children share a room, I’m betting you have heard the sentiment in the title on more than one occasion. I have all girls, but I’m wondering if it’s just as prevalent with boys. I’ll venture a guess that as they near or enter the dreaded teen years, boys too want a space to call their own.
Hey, sometimes I wish I had my own room! (just kidding, Babe).
It seems as if the accepted process for determining who gets their own room is that the oldest one remaining at home is next in line for the space. Many people probably use other criteria, but we lean toward the “seniority” thing, as my girls like to call it.
So, now that our oldest has moved out, we’re faced with once again configuring living arrangements. The two oldest were sharing the larger room and the two youngest are sharing the smaller bedroom. My husband and I thought that the (now) oldest should have her own room, but it should be the smaller one, allowing the two that still have to share a room, to have a little more space.
But, everyone wants a room of her own, and we just don’t have that many rooms. The oldest remaining child has indicated that she would be perfect happy staying right where she is and having the larger room to herself. The other two each want the larger room for themselves. Who would have thought a first grader would be so adamant about having her own room? She seems to like having a big sister in there with her at night, and while she isn’t likely to get her own room, I do wonder how that would turn out. I have a feeling she wouldn’t like it as well as she thinks she would, but hey, what do I know?
So, we’ll probably go with the original plan. Younger two in larger bedroom, older daughter in smaller bedroom, finally with a room of her own. It seems like we just moved all this furniture to create the current set up and now it’s time to take down bunk beds and rearrange it all once more. Time sure does go by fast. I’m still trying to adjust to having my firstborn leave the nest, much less listening to the younger two scheme over who will get the larger room when my next oldest gets ready to move out!