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Co sleeping
I am going threw a divorce my husband took everything. Vehicle everything that goes in a home. I got my two amazing children. I had to move closer to family and start over. It will be one year in the middle of July. I am finally able to move out on my own with my children. I have enough stuff for a home a good full time job. Due to our living situation. My children and I have had to share a room. My son on a mattress my daughter and I shared the bed. They will have their own rooms in 2 weeks ! What's a good way to help the cope with going into their own rooms their own beds they are older 4 and 7 but it's going to be hard on them. We've all been threw a lot this year
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You start by talking to them, getting them excited about having their own rooms just like all their friends. You get their help in choosing what colors to paint the room, regardless of how outlandish a color they pick that is the color you paint their room for now anyway. Remember you can always close the door to their room. Doing these things helps make the room theirs. Of course while picking their colors you can try to steer them to a more palatable color.
I remember when my sister, who was divorced, moved out of my parents home and into her first house. While she went back to school my nieces shared a room and a queen sized bed. IN the house they would both have their own room. On niece loved the color pink and the youngest one the color purple. The pink color the older girl chose wasn't so bad. The purple color first chosen was a real deep purple and while not all that bad it would have made the room very dark. The room did get painted in purple but a much lighter shade after my sister worked with my niece on her choice and accessories for the room.
What was important was involving the girls in everything that went into putting their rooms together, from paints to furniture. After 3 years of sharing a room and a be the problems my sister expected didn't happen. The girls were both happy to go to their own room for bed the very first nigh. I believe it was because they truly believed the rooms were really theirs.
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