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We live in a 3 bedroom house. 2 bedrooms downstairs and an attic bedroom upstairs. Right now my sons each have their own room downstairs and my husband and I have the attic bedroom upstairs. The downstairs is small and I feel like my 10 year old needs more privacy for when he has friends over. I also don't have a dining room in my house and that is a real disappointment for entertaining. I would like to turn one of the bedrooms into a dining room and move my husband and I to the other bedroom downstairs. Then, move my sons to the big attic bedroom upstairs. They would not be having bunk beds. My 10 year old could still keep his full-size bed and my 3 year old his twin size bed. They would have plenty of storage, their own closets, a big TV with cable, a desk for homework and lots of bookcases. I know it might suck for my 10 year old to share a room with his little bro, but I think it might be nice for him when he has friends over to be away from the adults and have some space. The 3 year old could stay downstairs with us when the 10 year old has friends over. What do you guys think? Any room-sharing experiences would be helpful. My dad and his brother (9 years apart) shared a bedroom and my my mom and her sister (7 years apart) shared a bedroom. They didn't see anything wrong with it.
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It's best fo them to share a room with a bunk bed. Every kids love to have a bunk. The stores have bunk beds that has full size bed on bottom and twin on top. You can alway buy you 3 year old a full size bed to get full over full bed so the 10 year old can sleep on top. You should turn the downstair. bedroom into a dining room. The kids take the other dowstair bedroom and you and your husband take the attic bedroom. Since they're both boys, they can alway share a room until the older one will be in high school. The younger can have the room while the older one is in school. By the time the ten year old come home from school, he can take the room until bedtime. while the younger can watch the living room TV while the older one has friends come over.
Please do not put big cabled TV in the boys room, TV in their room will affect their attention span, it just not good for kids to have in their room. Just replace TV with books and some cool educational toys. Alway put the Moon in my room in their room. It might encourage them to share a room!!!!
It's best fo them to share a room with a bunk bed. Every kids love to have a bunk. The stores have bunk beds that has full size bed on bottom and twin on top. You can alway buy you 3 year old a full size bed to get full over full bed so the 10 year old can sleep on top. You should turn the downstair. bedroom into a dining room. The kids take the other dowstair bedroom and you and your husband take the attic bedroom. Since they're both boys, they can alway share a room until the older one will be in high school. The younger can have the room while the older one is in school. By the time the ten year old come home from school, he can take the room until bedtime. while the younger can watch the living room TV while the older one has friends come over.
Please do not put big cabled TV in the boys room, TV in their room will affect their attention span, it just not good for kids to have in their room. Just replace TV with books and some cool educational toys. Alway put the Moon in my room in their room. It might encourage them to share a room!!!!
How can I get my 3 year old to play more independently?
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She goes to daycare but when she is home she wants to sit under her father and I. I dont have a real problem with it but her father thinks that maybe she should be playing more independently. She has a room full of toys and books but refuses to play with any of them. What should I do?
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We have this issue with my kids.
Basically, after a long day at daycare, they want to hang out with us. It can drive us nuts, because they'll want to be just right there constantly. Unfortunately, their insistance of always being right on top of us made us basically just want to constantly tell them to go away.
What works best for us is to devote some time specifically for them at the end of the day, where we hang out, play, tickle, talk about our day, whatever. After about 30 minutes, we tell them to go play in their room while we fix dinner. We all have dinner together, and go our own ways, to some degree. My youngest son, in particular, just likes to be in the room with me, but he doesn't need me to entertain him.
If we try to just tell them to go play everytime they came and bothered us, they become more desperate for playtime. When we set aside special time for them, they're more likely to play on their own afterwards.
We have this issue with my kids.
Basically, after a long day at daycare, they want to hang out with us. It can drive us nuts, because they'll want to be just right there constantly. Unfortunately, their insistance of always being right on top of us made us basically just want to constantly tell them to go away.
What works best for us is to devote some time specifically for them at the end of the day, where we hang out, play, tickle, talk about our day, whatever. After about 30 minutes, we tell them to go play in their room while we fix dinner. We all have dinner together, and go our own ways, to some degree. My youngest son, in particular, just likes to be in the room with me, but he doesn't need me to entertain him.
If we try to just tell them to go play everytime they came and bothered us, they become more desperate for playtime. When we set aside special time for them, they're more likely to play on their own afterwards.
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