Room Arrangements for Children

I come from a family of 8 boys, 3 girls. My 2 cents worth is to keep the boys together and move the baby in with her older sister. Their age difference isn't important, and keeping boys with boys and girls with girls will make decorating their rooms and storage much easier over the years. Plus, a boy and a girl would ultimately need to be separated before the older one reached puberty. And, baby sister will love being with her big sister, who will more than likely be her major role model growing up.

I would put the girls in one room and the boys in the other and of course you and hubby keep your room. I grew up sharing a room with my older sister and although we would fight/argue we are very close.

Boys together... girls together. Putting an 8 year old girl in with a young boy isn't really a good idea at all. If she's with a baby... privacy won't be an issue. My sister and I shared a room (3 years apart) and while we bickered often, we loved it. After I moved into my own room, she shared a room with our "baby sister" (5 years younger) and they happily shared a room until she went off to college! Even after I was out of the house, they chose to stay together.

I don't think it's fair to your 8 year old daughter to put one of her younger brothers in a room with her, she's getting too old to share a room with a boy and will want privacy. So I think your only option is to move the baby into her room, but if you could put it off until the baby is consistently sleeping through the night, I would.

I also agree that you should put the girls together and the boys together.

It is really not fair to put the oldest girl with a lil' brother she will want privacy soon enough, she will not be liking that at all....and I bet she will be the only one of the kids who would enjoy having the baby in her room, especially since it is her little sister and (most) girls are born nurtures...she will probably love it!

Boys with boys, girls with girls. You think the boys fight put a girl in that room!

I shared a room part of the time with my sister who is 7 years younger than myself. I think it's much better to put girls with girls and boys with boys. The boys aren't that far apart anyhow. The older girl will be able to cope with a baby girl much better than a 4 or 6 year old boy. The boys need to learn to get along. My boys were opposites and shared a room. The older two boys just were into it every once in awhile, one was neat and one wasn't, etc, etc. They married girls the same as the other brother so I told them it 'prepared' them for marriage. :-)
I will add that when I was 10 and shared a bed with a 3 year old sister it was not good but if in separate beds I think it should be great for the girls.

We have 5 bedrooms in our house. But, all the boys are in one room, and all the girls are in one room. It encourges them to have closer relationships (as long as parents are engaged in shepherding them in this direction), and it just makes sense. We use one room for a guest room, which is used a ton, and one for an office, and of course, our room. I would highly recommend having the girls share a room and the boys share a room. It adds accountability, and relationship building.

Ur ? Is obvious u have two boys together n a single girl u have another girl in ur room well two boys two girls what's the problem u put same sex together u can't put on girl one boy together that's wrong. There's privacy n physical issues u need same sex. Wake up so what the two boys argue your the mom put a stop to it. Sorry honey but mom knows ur eight but u need to share a room I would have had her n the 4 month sharing from the get go

My house only has 2 bedrooms, so when my 2nd was born it was a huge worry for me how to get them in the same room together. Once the youngest was sleeping through the night well, we moved her in with her sister and a baby monitor and it really was not a big deal. Once the youngest got older and they were goofing around keeping each other up (2.5 and 5 years old), then I made a little room in the basement for the oldest, since she was complaining that her sister kept her awake, and things have calmed down a lot. Its not the greatest set up, but the oldest enjoys having her own space.
I'd suggest for you, moving baby in with big sister. They will be going to bed at separate times, so it shouldn't be an issue. If baby goes down first, then have big sister learn to sneak into bed w/o waking up baby - maybe store her PJ's in a different room. If baby has a night feeding, be sure to rock to sleep before putting her back in the room. Amazingly when my kids did not seem to wake up when the other one was awake - even if they were screaming! Kids are resilient, so they usually can figure out a way to make the room sharing work. If I couldn't separate my kids, I'd stagger bedtimes or something to be sure they could get some sleep. I think we as the parents stress about it more then the kids do. :) We just live in a society where we're expected to provide a lot more for our kids then was expected in the past.