Would you give your child the Master Bedroom?

[Skywalker]

I have these friends that just bought a new condo downtown so we were getting the grand tour yesterday. It's a beautiful place! They have one child, a girl who is 6-years-old and...she has the master bedroom. And it is a NICE room, huge with ensuite bathroom, beautiful lake views...my friends have taken the bedroom down the hall and it is about 1/4 the size no adjoining bathroom and only a view of the condo tower next door.

Now, this child is quite indulged and a bit on the spoiled side anyway but this shocks me. Anyone here give up the master bedroom for their child? Would you? Surprisingly this is the 2nd family I know to have done this.

(For the record when I asked her why, she said because "Precious has so many toys it made sense to give her the big room").

I don't know if I can still respect them. (lol) Thoughts?

 

[indimom]

Well, I have, but not like that....

In our first house, we had two bedrooms.
Large master (but no connecting bath)
Smaller (about 30% smaller) bedroom.

When baby #2 arrived, we put the kids together in the larger room and we took the smaller room.
But, no way am I giving my child the master for their toys. Not going to happen. Sounds like they have too many toys to me, time for a yard sale.

 

[Poohforyou]

Absolutely not. My daughter is an only child and making sure she wasn't over indulged as a child was a mission. She'll be 18 in a few weeks and I like to think we succeeded.

 

[design_mom]

I would not unless there was a special circumstance. (In fact, when we built our house our then-three year old was insistent that the master bedroom was going to be "his room." Um, nope kid. Not yours.)

A couple of cases where I might consider it would be if I had multiple children who were sharing a room. (For instance -- a family of three boys, a girl, and the parents. In a three bedroom house, the three boys could share the master, parents would take a "regular" room, and the girl would have her own room. Another scenario where I might consider it would be if a child had special needs where the needs would require that he "needed" the extra space or en suite bedroom.

 

[disykat]

I might, but only if there were several of them. For example, if I had 3 girls and a boy and we had a three bedroom house with small bedrooms. It might make sense to give the 3 girls the master, the boy a room, and DH and I a room. Why would two people give up a room to one person?

I absolutely would NOT do it under the circumstances described. One child can fit in a bedroom - no matter how small it is! Unless it was to make room for medical equipment or to be wheelchair accessible, I would lose a lot of respect for the parents.

 

[disykat]

PS - great minds think alike.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I voted "it depends"

When I was in college my parents moved and they choose to put me in the "master" bedroom (when I was home on the occasional weekend or holiday). There wasn't a huge difference in room sizes and my dad really liked the view from the smaller room. The choice was theirs and for their convienence.

When we moved to Detroit we bought a smaller two bedroom---we had two kids. It took about a year for us to renovate the basement and create a room for ourselves down there---in the meantime the kids shared one room and we put them into the larger of the two options because two kids in seperate beds with all their clothes and toys, etc took up a lot more room than we did.

The situation you describe? I doubt I'd make the decision that family did, but if the parents are happy with it, who cares? Maybe they don't like toys throughout the house and prefer that their daughter have space to keep them all and play in her room and the mess is confinded there.

 

[Meriweather]

It depends....not an issue here now.
But I had the master bedroom when I was a teenager.
I can see doing it in the right circumstances...........not for a 6 year old

 

[sam_gordon]

"It depends"...

I can see if the master bedroom is on the first floor (of a multi-level house) and the child had some physical issue that prevented going up/down stairs.

 

[lorimay]

For a 6 yr old with too many toys....pfffttt......

My son who is recently married is living with us so they can save money for a couple years to buy and not waste money on rent. They have the 2 front bedrooms. He teases us and says one day you're gonna wake up and just be in my bedroom and we will be in your master and then we will never leave.....I tell him we are not that senile yet, give us a few years.

 

[katie01]

In the house we have now, definitely not. None of the other bedrooms have a bathroom in it or a walk in closet like our master bedroom does. The only way I'd do so is if maybe we had lots of kids but a small house and needed for multiple kids to share rooms and therefore a bigger bedroom.

 

[DisneylandDarling]

Sounds like a mini Regina George in the making...

 

[MaryLovesPoohBear]

I voted "it depends"

When I was in college my parents moved and they choose to put me in the "master" bedroom (when I was home on the occasional weekend or holiday). There wasn't a huge difference in room sizes and my dad really liked the view from the smaller room. The choice was theirs and for their convience.

When we moved to Detroit we bought a smaller two bedroom---we had two kids. It took about a year for us to renovate the basement and create a room for ourselves down there---in the meantime the kids shared one room and we put them into the larger of the two options because two kids in seperate beds with all their clothes and toys, etc took up a lot more room than we did.

The situation you describe? I doubt I'd make the decision that family did, but if the parents are hapy with it, who cares? Maybe they don't like toys throughout the house and prefer that their daughter have space ot keep them all and play in her room and the mess is confinded there.

That would make sense.

We didn't have a problem having a toy box in the living room, or car tracks running around the carpet. Since our son is an only child, he would have been in his room alone. When he was with us, when he was playing in the living room.

But some parents want every toy in the bedroom.

 

[Disneylover99]

No never. But my husband has too many toys.

 

[Micca]

I guess I'd say depends...but probably not. If there was a need for the kid to have the master or if for some reason I preferred one of the other rooms I'd do it.,

 

[rebelbuddhist]

(For the record when I asked her why, she said because "Precious has so many toys it made sense to give her the big room").

If precious is the child's name, that tells it all. This is proof that parents need to be trained and licensed before they reproduce!

 

[NFLDERS]

Our dgs thought the Dbl bed in the Disney Wonder was for him. He was 6 1/2 years young. I took one look at him sitting there in the middle of the bed, and he instinctively knew! Then, we went to the Muster Drill.

Nooo... One's getting the Master but, ME!!

Now, pardon me while I ponder the re-naming of "Master Suite" in all home designs.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

Not happening.

 

[wenrob]

We had a house that had double master bedrooms with bathrooms, one with a walk in closet. We took the one with the walk in and gave oldest DD the second so I voted "it depends."

 

[spacemountainmom]

Growing up, I had the master bedroom in our house. It wasn't that much larger than the next bedroom, but it was located in the front of the house. My parents preferred the back bedroom and are still in that bedroom 46 years later.

I would not agree with the situation in the OP.