Would you give your kids the Master Bedroom?

[DisneyAddict_M]

My sister and I shared the master bedroom when we were growing up. I didn't think it was all that strange.

 

[CathrynRose]

I have. My boys had to share a room at one time, and I felt they needed all that space more then I did. They played in their room - all I did was sleep in it.

I guess it just depends. I wouldnt take threats - but I wouldnt say absolutely no way, either.

 

[BuzznBelle'smom]

I can understand some of the scenarios listed, where it would be practical to have children in the master BR for different reasons. I could also see using a first floor MBR for a child with mobility issues.

However, the two "reasons" listed by the OP just have me ! The first family needs to do a major purge. the second family needs to do a discipline intervention. In both cases, those parents are in for major trouble if they don't see the error of their ways.

We're moving this summer and currently house hunting. I don't think it would cross DD13's mind to ask for the MBR. She has been taking the opportunity to lobby for a laptop, though.

 

[lilyv]

Uh..No. Sends the wrong message, entirely to the children. I understand about the quads, by the way, but otherwise, it's a no.

 

[<3WDW]

Certainly there are instances in which it makes sense. However, sound like the OP is talking about kids with that sense of entitlement that drives me crazy. (But then I'm a mean mom whose children don't even have their own tv's or computers in their rooms!)

 

[lvanleer]

I have a friend who is a single mom due to divorce....she and her now grown daughter shared a three bedroom townhome....two bedrooms on the second level and a great big room on the top floor....they used the two bedrooms as their rooms while Jess(the daughter) was in elementary school and then when Jess was in junior high her Mom converted the upper level room to allow her to have a great room to sleep, study and entertain in...Jess stayed there through college and just recently moved into her first apartment....she's in her mid 20s now.....the reason her Mom never used the upper level room as a master bedroom was that she didn't want to be that far up in case of fire or disaster....so it worked for them.

 

[Bethy Lou]

No teenager in my house would dare say they were not moving unless they got the mater suite, but it sounds like that girl is a spoiled brat and used to bossing her parents. Our two daughters have plenty of toys and if they had enough to warrant getting our master bedroom, we'd be having ourselves a nice little yard sale.

 

[ashjohnson80]

No way! Whoever pays the mortgage is entitled to the master bedroom IMO. And if your kids have too many toys for one of the smaller rooms, you need to have a yard sale or something.

 

[Darcy03231]

DD (16) has the Master Bedroom/Bathroom, but.........the lower level of our house is finished off and there is a private suite down there - Bedroom, Bathroom, Jacuzzi tub, living room, dressing room, huge walk in closets and an office. That's where DH and I are. DD is in what was the original master bedroom of the house. She never would have dreamed of "demanding" it. She just got it because she's the oldest child living at home.

 

[Jen_in_NH]

Right now, DH and I have the smallest of the bedrooms as a master, but it has the other bathroom attached. We like it better anyways

Growing up, my sister and I shared a room, and my parents had the other bedroom. When we were older, my parents found a way of moving some walls, and turning part of the hallway and a part of their closet into another bedroom. My sister really wanted the new room, and my parents did not want our bedroom (it was pink and purple, and really girly), so I ended up with the biggest of the rooms. But we didn't have a master suite or anything like that (heck, we only had one bathroom downstairs for 4 of us - by todays standards, horrendous!!! )

If the kids are there because it works best for everyone, then cool. If the kids are demanding it, then no way in heck.

 

[LisaNJ25]

not for the reasons in the OP's post. I have considered giving my younger 3 my room . My teenager has his own room but its to small to fit another sibling with him. Right now my 2yo switches between my room and his sisters room.

 

[kbkids]

Nope - only because I've got the cool bathroom with the walk in shower. My kids' bedrooms honestly though aren't that much smaller than the master. Ours is 14x16, and the kids are both 13x15. They each have their own bathroom, although they each have just a simple, no frills bathroom. No way would I be giving up my shower!!!

 

[frndofpooh]

They can have the master bedroom when they pay the mortgage!

Amen to that!

 

[RadioNate]

Growing up I had a friend who shared the master bedroom with her sister. It was a 3 bedroom split level house. The master and a smaller bedroom were upstairs and then there was a bedroom on the lower walkout basement level. The parents slept downstairs and the 3 girls upstairs. The oldest had her own room and the other two shared the master.

After a few years they put another bedroom in the basement level and the 2 oldest girls slept down there, the youngest daughter was upstairs and the parents took back the master bedroom.

 

[rentayenta]

What do you think? Would you do it? Have you done it? What is the reason?

Under normal circumstances no however when we were building our new home we were renting a 2 bedroom townhome and the kids got the master. There are 3 kids and only 2 of us so we let them have the master in the rental but only because we didn't want to rent a 3 bedroom. I my master bedroom and my bathroom is amazing and would never let them have it.

 

[rkandmjsmommy]

The only scenario I could see giving children the master suite would be if perhaps they were going to have to share a bedroom anyway and there were more of them than parents, like three or more children of one gender.

But a single child getting the master room? Oh, no no no no.

I agree 100000%, I would give it up if 3 or more had to share a room, a child refusing to move would be included in the house

"3 bedroom, 2 bath colonial, child refusing to move included "LOL

 

[Minnesota!]

Yes - my parents gave me the huge master bedroom, and yes, I have given our master bedroom to my kids. It's just a room?!?!?!? 99% of the time that I am in my bedroom, my eyes are shut anyway, so why do I care?

They have more crap than I have, so it just makes sense.

 

[jimmalru80]

They can have the master bedroom when they pay the mortgage!

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!!

 

[LindaM]

DH niece has the master for the reasons OP stated, she is 13 and her and her mom moved in with MIL. Yup MIL now has a small room and niece has the master with ensuite. She tells my DD that she should do the same, my DD replied "not on your life would I suggest something like that".

 

[bumbershoot]

We have a family room still, but when we lived in a townhouse, we ended up moving DS's stuff and our clothing dresses into the master bedroom, and moved the bed to the small bedroom.

There were many reasons, including the temperature of the big room (heating vent was right over the bed so it could get stifling hot, but without the heat on it was freezing...in the smaller room we could keep the heat off and 3 sleeping people heated the room sufficiently), but ultimately, bedrooms are for sleeping (especially with a family bed, one wants other rooms for other stuff), and we didn't need a huge room for sleeping.

The only issue I had about that was DS spending lots of time in there if playing alone, with the bathroom so close. Paranoid about drowning and whatnot, though he never gave an indication that he would suddenly stick his head in the toilet (and he always announces *using* the toilet). It would have been an issue if he had decided he wanted his own bed while we were living there, but that request hasn't been made (he wants a racecar bed in a few months, but wants us all to sleep in "his" room in his racecar bed, LOL).


I grew up in a TINY house, and every couple years we would all switch around. The third bedroom was actually a former closed-off porch with a door to the outside, so my mom waited until we were not little kids to let us have that area, and then once she got re-married we switched up again and brother and I went to the tiny bedrooms and they got the back room. But my point is that I'm used to swapping rooms, a room is a room!