Would you give your kids the Master Bedroom?

[Stacerita]

Nope. I wouldn't unless there were a few of them and they were going to share. Other than that, nope. I get the master.

 

[KikiFan]

I wouldn't do it for the reason's listed. But for the sake of practicality I would.

 

[lilyv]

Not to hijack, but...I have an old friend who has worked (used to be happily) in the housing office of one of the universities in the south for many years. She swears in the last 5 years or so, suddenly there are more and more students have all sorts of needs...can't have a room mate, room's too small, can't sleep in a twin bed, closet's too small, and on and on and on. They're freshmen, for heavens sake, and they are very vocal about their displeasure with the size and space in an average sized dorm room. I gotta wonder if some of what's talked about in this thread plays into these problems. The parents and kids are making her nuts so she's looking for greener pastures.

OK...back to kid's bedrooms at home.......

 

[themarquis]

My sister and I shared the master bedroom growing up, and that was 25+ years ago. It certainly was not because we demanded it.

Actually, I'm not totally sure why we had it ... I think our parents liked us to have lots of space to play together -- to be able to develop "projects" and occupy ourselves without bugging them. We also were given a very large proportion of the backyard to do all sorts of crazy things in. They slept in the converted garage, which was never totally finished (my dad was a carpenter, so he was always working on the house but never finished anything ), but was a pretty good size.

So I wouldn't think there would be anything wrong with it ... actually, if you think about it, adults often have some kind of extra space somewhere in the house to spread out -- an office, part of a den or garage. Children are often engaged in all kinds of exciting play activity that also takes up space. It makes sense that parents might decide to give them a little extra room to spread out.

It seems to me that different families have different strategies of organizing space .... one way isn't right or wrong

 

[Julia M]

Growing up in a 2 bedroom condo, the three kids got the master, and my parents had the smaller bedroom. Certainly diffferent from your two examples (where the kids just sound like brats, and the parents are pushovers!), but I think it was good for us to have a little extra space.

Sounds like my husband's family. When he was young (he was 7th of 8) and all 8 were at home, the two oldest boys (high school age) shared a room, the three middle girls (junior high and high school) shared the master bedroom, the two younger boys shared a room, with bunkbeds, along with the baby in a crib. Then the parents had one of the regular bedrooms.

That's WAY different than little kids getting the master bedroom because of toys!!

julia

 

[Katy Belle]

Well, normally no way...but in this house my oldest son is in the Master. The villa's here are huge and EVERY bedroom has its own bathroom in the room. The Master bedroom is just a few feet larger than the room we chose, all the rooms are huge. The reason we chose our room was that the bathroom has a shower, not a tub and the master has a tub, no seperate shower. I hate baths and would rather use a seperate shower than stand in a tub to shower. He does have a slightly better closet, but we store our suitcases etc. in there. OH, and we have a balcony and he doesn't. So I guess we sort of had two Master bedrooms here! The other two bedrooms are slightly smaller and have smaller closets.

Katy

 

[DisneyWorldOct08]

My parents gave me the master bedroom, but they did that because the Master bedroom, was like 5 feet bigger than the other bedroom and the central air vents in the regular bedroom worked better than the master bedroom lol. So it was no great prize.

 

[dreamn_Disney]

My dd has the master bedroom in our house and I could care less. She does have to share some of the closet space with me. The room other than having its own bath is no more fancy than any other bed room just bigger. I had th master bedroom when she had the second biggest room. I then bought a big bulky car bed for my ds. The bed took up almost all the room in his bedroom. Dd traded rooms with him. She said he needed room to play. We squeezed all her things into the small room and had to take the door off the closet because there was no room to open it. By all her stuff I do not mean she has several dressers or an entertainment stand or any thing, it is a very small room and once you put in a bed, dresser, desk, nightstand,small tv stand, and book case the room is full. All I did with the extra room in my room was collect junk that I had to sort through and take to the shed every week. I moved my bed, dresser, night stand, and book case to the small room. I do not need more room and am happy being in a room with no space to collect junk. My dd has room to move around and room for her and friends to spread out. Bonus I do not have a teenage girl and all her hair and makeup items in the nice bathroom I use for me and company. She has all that tucked in a bathroom no one ever sees.

 

[DawnCt1]

In the scenario that was described by the OP, I feel sorry for those children. They will not be prepared for life.

 

[LadyyRedd]

When my sis and I were little and my mom was a single parent, we always had a 2 br apartment and we always got the master and my mom took the smaller one.

Kimya

 

[disneyfanx3]

I have a friend who when she 1st moved into the house let her two teenage daughters share the master bedroom - then when she decided to convert the office into a bedroom and give the girls their own room she took the room down stairs and let her girls have the master and 2nd bedroom - she felt it was better to have the two girls upstairs and her downstairs - less chance of them sneaking out

 

[perdidobay]

We gave our DD the master bedroom when she was 11. We had just moved in. The house was an older one and the room sizes were all about the same.
The master had no bathroom, it was across the hall and had a tiny closet.
The room we took was upstairs and had a bath and a HUGE closet.
Can you see why we swapped?

 

[bettyann29]

I debated on giving my girls the master room when we bought our house, but that was because their room is bigger than ours However ours has a bathroom connected to it, so we kept the master..

 

[golfgal]

It would take a REALLY good reason for me to give up our master bedroom-like if we had a first floor master and a child in a wheelchair or something. I wouldn't give it up for housing multiple kids even-they can keep their toys in the basement. I do think kids today are demanding more and more adult privileges or parents are GIVING them more and more adult privileges and then can't understand why they are spoiled or expect the world?

 

[aprilgail2]

I dont care at all, its just a bedroom. My daughters room is 12x22...mine is 10x11 so you could put 2 of my rooms in hers LOL. She has more "stuff" in her room than I do. All I need space for is a desk with my computer, a tv bed and dresser.
As far as the kid not wanting to move I can sympathize with that - my dad was offered some kind of promotion when I was 15 and my brother was 17- we live in NY and would have had to move to the state of Washington. I was not going, I had another year and a half of high school and no way was I finishing anyplace other than here and my borther was in his last year. Both of us said no way, I was going to stay with a friends family until I graduated and he was going to stay with a relative that lived local enough for him to commute back and forth from school...then my mom said "well if they are not going I am not going" so we all ended up staying exactly where we were-no new job, no new house...

 

[Goofyzgurl]

I don't think it's which room, but it's who makes the decision or what dictates the decision. As the parents, we make the decision. Too many toys, well, we can't get rid of the kid so we're getting rid of toys....you're not moving, um, think again because the house is getting sold and you're welcome to stay and be the maid for the new owners. I don't understand how some kids feel "entitled" to make the decisions. Our girls have an opinion, if we ask them for it, but it's something we'll take into consideration but they know that in the end WE will make a decision that's best for the whole family.

 

[KelsiesMommy]

Uh, wouldn't happen here. It's sad the state of our youth today- so many kids feel entitled to whatever they want and it's usually because their parents indulge them

 

[Liberty Belle]

I've never been in a situation where I'd consider it, and since we have a king size bed and they both have full beds, it probably wouldn't work even if there were a good reason to switch.

 

[Papa Deuce]

LOL, I'd say "Ok, stay behind, but how are you going to pay your bills"? and then I would laugh...

 

[disney1990]

My daughter and her husband lived in a 900 square ft house and the two bedrooms were fairly small. They had their 2 daughters in the smallest room on bunkbeds because that's all that would fit. They decided to switch rooms with the girls and redecorate the room as a Christmas present for the girls one year. The new room at least gave the girls a some space to play in. Meanwhile, the small bedroom was just big enough across for 2 end tables with a bed in between.

I thought it was really a sweet thing to do.