Age for siblings sharing is changing?

busy_mom_2

Funny how the need for separate rooms is always for social housing, if you have a mortgage tough!
No help to buy a bigger property so the children can have a room each regardless of age or sex.

somethingcorporate

nottslass wrote: »

All well and good Tiddlywinks,But what do you suppose one is supposed to do if you've already got children ?

Put them in the same room.

It's not like because they are different genders they become allergic to each other once they reach 10.

sazpot

My brother and I shared a room for the best part of a year when we were 12 and 14. We survived as it was the only house my parents could find to rent without moving too far for the time we needed to rent. It isn't ideal for opposite genders to share at that age and I think 10 is quite a fair age to suggest sharing until.

somethingcorporate

sazpot wrote: »

My brother and I shared a room for the best part of a year when we were 12 and 14. We survived as it was the only house my parents could find to rent without moving too far for the time we needed to rent. It isn't ideal for opposite genders to share at that age and I think 10 is quite a fair age to suggest sharing until.

If someone else is paying I think any age is fine.

I have been reading a book recently about the people that used to live in our street. They often had 10 people living in a 3 bedroom house. Didn't do them any harm! Why do we now think it does?

sazpot

somethingcorporate wrote: »

If someone else is paying I think any age is fine.

I have been reading a book recently about the people that used to live in our street. They often had 10 people living in a 3 bedroom house. Didn't do them any harm! Why do we now think it does?

My parents were paying the bill themselves and they chose a smaller house so we could stay near our friends instead of moving away from the area and back back again the following year.

From my experience I know how hard it was for me as a 12 year old girl sharing with my 14 year old brother when I was first starting my periods and wearing bras. These things are quite difficult for young girls and not something you want you older brother knowing much about.

StumpyPumpy

somethingcorporate wrote: »

If someone else is paying I think any age is fine.

I have been reading a book recently about the people that used to live in our street. They often had 10 people living in a 3 bedroom house. Didn't do them any harm! Why do we now think it does?

Luxury. We had it tough...
http://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo

tanyamumof3

2 of my children share girl 10 and boy 4,she asked if he could and tbh he only goes in now and then to play on the laptop with her otherwise its just at bedtime

stiltwalker

Our two (DD, nearly 4 and DS, 20 months) share and TBH they would be devastated if we tried to split them up - they also make a beeline for each other at nursery if they are ever both out in the big garden at the same time and play together beautifully. I swear DD learns new things (both have disabilities) purely to show her little brother how to do it properly - she didn't crawl on all fours (she flat crawled) until he was the age where he should have been starting to do it, then she got up on all fours in front of him saying 'like thi, like thi!' I'm sure part of their close bond is that they share and always have.

Tiddlywinks

nottslass wrote: »

Many of those that will face hardship under these rules will be decent hard working people and not "professional long term claimants" making a life style choice !

The definition of hardship is NOT making children share a bedroom... end of!

Try living in Africa and having to walk 2 miles just to get clean water... or living in rural Asia and having to beg or starve... since when did we get so sissy?

Lucky94

Does anyone know if the rules are still the same if one child a boy is on DLA and wakes throughout the night needing constant attention, therefore waking the other child a girl?