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SAME ROOM OR SEPARATE

© Carrie Webbenhurst

As parents of twins, this is going to be one of your easier problems to deal with.

A lot of solving this problem has to do with how big your house is, if you have same-sex twins, and if they get along.

What did we do? When they were first born, they were in separate cribs in our bedroom. Luckily we had a big enough bedroom so we could have both cribs in there with us. I would recommend keeping them together in the same room when they are babies; it's so much easier with feeding, diapering, etc.

When ours were 8 months old and we moved to Washington, we had a bigger house than we had in Texas. Also the boys had been waking each other up at night, so we put them in separate bedrooms. This was great because finally both boys slept through the night. They spent six months in separate bedrooms. Then we moved to a new house.

Back into the same bedroom they went, and that is where they still are today at 11 years old.

Our house is a four-bedroom house with three bedrooms upstairs and one down. The downstairs bedroom is the guest room, and one of the bedrooms upstairs started out as the den and is now the hockey room. The boys have never complained about sharing a room - up to now.

Last summer they started asking if they could have their own rooms. The problem - the den is so full of other things that it would take a very long time to clean it out so one of them could move in there. I am not against them having their own rooms; it's just not going to happen right away.

Our other problem - we need to clean out the basement, so all the stuff in the den has a place to be put. Basically we need to get rid of lots of stuff, but that is for a different topic.

So, for now, the boys are still sharing a room and will for a while longer. They don't constantly ask for separate rooms; it's usually only when they've been fighting with each other. I had a brilliant idea one day - move them into the master bedroom. It's bigger with more room for two growing boys, and they would have their own bathroom. My husband and I could occupy the other two rooms upstairs and make one a walk-in closet. We decided against that - oh well, I was looking forward to the walk in closet.