Siblings sharing a bed

Not a problem when the girl is older than the boy, boys can be very “precocious” even at 7 or 8, remove the risk, do you really want children of that age to think touching is normal.

Local housing associations move families with two children of the opposite sex out of their two bedroomed house and in to a Three bedroomed property as soon as the eldest child reaches its 10th Birthday. My youngest two Grandchildren are a boy 7 and a Girl 8, they share a room and sleep in Bunkbeds at the moment, but as soon as the Girls 9th Birthday arrives they will be placed back on the housing register to give the children a bedroom each, much to my daughters annoyance because she really likes the house she has got, and is even considering asking if it would be possible for her to share a double room with her Daughter, using twin beds.

i often used to climb into my brothers bed with him when i was 4 and he was 14, for the best part of a year i wouldnt sleep without him, in the end up he got fed up with my knees in his back he begged Mum to put my bed in his room, which she did so he could get some sleep. One day i decided i was a big girl because i had started school and went back to my own room.

Why not top and tail them, if you have worries. Neither will be tall enough the have the other child's feet in their face.

The NSPCC say children should have their own room over the age of 10 years.
Rightly or wrongly I don't think anyone would have any qualms if the older child were a girl and the younger child a boy....

I would say it was fine, 7 and 4 is very young.
Would people think it was wrong if the siblings were both boys or both girls?

My grandchildren aged girl 10, boy 5 share the king sized bed in our guest room when they stay. I've offered them separate rooms, but they like to stay together, at the moment anyway! They have separate rooms at their own home.

Sacre Bleu! I have confused my Adventures.

I think you ve got the wrong poster greymar the poster with the granddaughter in India or Scotland is missadventurefalls

I don’t see it as a problem perhaps they sleep better not being on their own in individual rooms perhaps if they were given their own rooms they would keep waking or not getting off to sleep They are still very young In many cultures there is only one bedroom

I don’t see a problem as they are both young, you say there are other bedrooms

If it is not a necessity then it must be their preference.

Is this in India or Scotland?

If they get a good night's sleep and it's what they want, yes?
It wont last forever.

Rosenoir, I am really not sure. There are other bedrooms so it is not necessity.

Why?

I do not see a problem if the children are happy to share, what is your opinion Missfoodlove

When I divorced four of us slept in a double bed me up one end and my son and two daughters down the other they were 3, 7 and 9 We spent a year like that then got a council house
Guess each family has its own ways and own taboos Looking at the ‘dolls house’ sized cottage my Dad grew up in with four siblings I would imagine they all doubled up too
I would imagine many families have no choice

Still very young, I can’t really see a problem. Obviously not ideal, but maybe the children in question don’t have an alternative.

Nothing wrong I think, unless the little boy is very precocious.

I shared a bed sometimes with my big brother until l was about 7 he was 12 . I enjoyed it, we used to keep warm and had the dog in with us.