Question about children sharing a room

looby75

Spendless wrote: »

mine do that despite their own bedrooms and stil creep into each others beds and last night they had made what I can only describe as a 'nest' in the smallest bedroom with a duvet on bottom and one over them and they were sleeping top to tail on the floor.:rolleyes: I shall threaten to rent their beds out.:D

lol I would this is mse after all

looby75

dieselhead wrote: »

Just trying to be practical for a second, if it is something that bothers the children involved, is there anyway you could split the bedroom in a temporary fashion, such as a curtain, or maybe a free standing partition (I'm assuming since the property is rented you couldn't do anything major but a few screws and nails wouldn't hurt, as they could be fixed afterwards). What about something like this http://www.askthebuilder.com/685_Temporary_Partition_Wall.shtml it states that it can be removed afterward

thats what I've done.

DD and DS bunk beds look like this.

dd is on the top bunk, ds sleeps on the bottom. The only reason the tent is there is so dd can turn the light on if she needs to do something in the bedroom after ds is asleep.

Running_Horse

Taye wrote: »

a tiny box room not big enough to fit a bed in.

What size is this room? Argos used to do a 5 foot 9 by 2 foot 6 childs bed for less than £100 which just fit in the box room in my old house. Might not be ideal for an adult, but your kids would then have their own room to share.

nadnad

i just wanted to comment that i find it very strange that any would wonder at the legality of having siblings of different sex sharing a room. Its got nothing to do with the legal system! How bizarre. Councils may have guidelines as to guide them when allocating housing, but this is not anything to do with law. I know in these times it may be difficult having teenage siblings sharing a room, but frankly I don't see how that is the council's problem. I would rather council spent time on providing housing to actual homeless people, not people complaining about the lack of space and privacy.

newlywed

I know someone who is council tenant who has two older boys in one room and then 5 year old girl in her room with her and her hubby :eek:

We can't understand why they don't buy a sofa bed for the front room


When I grew up there was 4 of us in one bedroom - 3 girls and a boy and only when my brother (eldest) got to about 14-15 did he then decide to sleep in the front room on a fold out bed. We were brought up to knock on a closed door before entering in case someone was getting changed.

Since mum and dad had a 2nd tv in their room, if he was ill, we just all sat on their bed to watch tv. We survived.

Bettyboop

nadnad wrote: »

i just wanted to comment that i find it very strange that any would wonder at the legality of having siblings of different sex sharing a room. Its got nothing to do with the legal system! How bizarre. Councils may have guidelines as to guide them when allocating housing, but this is not anything to do with law. I know in these times it may be difficult having teenage siblings sharing a room, but frankly I don't see how that is the council's problem. I would rather council spent time on providing housing to actual homeless people, not people complaining about the lack of space and privacy.

Well said nadnad. In the UK people should be grateful to have a roof over there heads. Compared to some responses on here a lot bigger families have smaller homes and have found ways to deal with it. The council is not bound to upgrade one's home because it simply isn't convenient for the kids to share...that's ridiculous!

prettypoppyknickers

were i live the state say that after the age of 7 the will reconsider applications.

prettypoppyknickers

i work for a charity based in romania that have one family with a room with 4 children and two adults on a rubbish dump and the lady is a 18 year old girl with her partner and a child and then her 3 siblings because her mother died on top of that they have to sell there bricks to make money, i'm sure you friends kids will live.

but you can always swap if you want though.

jellyhead

Even if the council says a family is entitled to a bigger house you could be waiting for years - people tend to stay in their council house for life.

A couple in my street got a car so that they could take a rural 3-bed house from the council that nobody else wanted because it was miles from shops, school etc.

It was their only chance of getting a bigger house really, even though they would have preferred to stay in the area. Beggars can't be choosers, they said - not that I'd call them beggars.

There might be an exchange list too - if your friend is in a nice area then there may be older couples whose children have moved out of a large 3-bed in a rough area who'd like to swap to a nicer area.

barriejohn69

prettypoppyknickers wrote: »

i work for a charity based in romania that have one family with a room with 4 children and two adults on a rubbish dump and the lady is a 18 year old girl with her partner and a child and then her 3 siblings because her mother died on top of that they have to sell there bricks to make money, i'm sure you friends kids will live.

but you can always swap if you want though.

Why dont they come to britain? It seems most of thier comrades have.