I thought Id ask this when my BF told me I was crazy having children/teenagers of both genders share the same bedroom in my game. In RL, I can understand how that can be a bad idea, so I'd like to know how other players deal with sharing rooms, or maybe you even have a room for each kid.

When I play, if there is limited rooms, I usually go by age more than gender. So for example one time I had a house with 2 rooms for the kids, one was a teenager, and three children. I gave the teenager a room for himself while I put the children in the other room (2 boys, 1 girl). I commonly put twins together in a room even if they are a boy and girl.

Maybe I am just use to this because this has been my playstyle, but I find it more weird when the same gender shares a bedroom but their ages are different (for example, having a female teenager sharing a room with a female toddler or a kid).

Anyways, how do you assign the kids their rooms? Gender, age, everyone as their own room, etc?

I usually play with smaller houses, thats why most of the time the kids have to share rooms lol

In a growing family, I tend to keep kids grouped by age if there's a bedroom shortage. However, if there's some kind of a blip -- like the family moves to a different house with the same number of bedrooms once I'm pretty sure reproduction has ended -- I might juggle room assignments to be gender-matching instead of age-bonding. I tend to draw the line at adults sharing with younger family members or family members of the opposite sex. So if an unmarried adult doesn't have a bedroom to his or herself, I think of that Sim as a couch-surfer and s/he survives on naps.

With both risky woohoo and random trips & quads in my game, my Sims consider themselves lucky if there's a sleep _slot_ for every Sim in the household. I have a pair of orphaned brothers who hate each other who switch off between a couch and a double bed they refuse to share. At one time, the eldest boy in my farming family slept in a tent outside while his sisters shared the spare room in the farmhouse.

My Sim kids/teens only share a room if they are the same gender. I don't mind too much about the difference in age but ideally, if they are different in age, they'd have their own rooms. A Sim boy and a Sim girl would never share a room in my game, i don't think...though saying that, i actually have done that before, ages ago.

I prefer to keep boys and girls in different rooms. When building a house or renting an apartment, I take that possibility into account.

Well, for starters, I have a rule that houses for my adult sim couples (elder sim couples and single sims I often move into houses with just one bedroom, since they obviously aren't going to be having kids!) have to have at least three bedrooms (or, for premade houses, for there to at least be space to add a third bedroom), one for them and two for kids. Usually, however, my sim families live in four bedroom houses (I try not to go higher than four bedrooms, as that helps me to ensure that I don't let myself get up to my eyeballs in babies, toddlers, children, and teens! Now that I have ACR installed, that will also help me to be able to say "no" to a sim couple who wants to have more babies when they already have four children!).

Parents always get a room to themselves, as do grandparents if they live with a family (and for me, it's a requirement that both the parents' and grandparents' rooms be big enough for a double bed. I don't see any reason to deprive them of being able to share a bed! Plus, having a double-bed means they don't have to use the couch or hot tub for woohoo all the time!).

Twins always share a room as babies and toddlers (so do triplets, and sometimes quads if the room is big enough), although opposite gender twins usually get their own rooms once they become children. If I'm a little low on space (and adding space isn't an option, nor is moving feasible at that point), same-gender kids will sometimes share a room. I also usually impose a two kids per room rule. Sometimes I'll have a teen share with a kid, and I've even had a kid share with a toddler on a few occasions.

Babies, on the otherhand, share with toddlers only.

It depends on the household in my game.

All sim babies and toddlers sleep in a crib in their parents' room until they become children. That way the parents can wake up when the baby/toddler does. (It's the first rule of parenting: "You sleep when the baby sleeps, because otherwise you'll NEVER sleep.")

In most of my households, kids share rooms with their same gender siblings. Sometimes teens will get their own room, but usually they're sharing space with their little sister or little brother.

That all goes out the window with three of my households:

1) Tara Kat and her child-aged alien son Sylvester share a room because her house is just so small and there's no ROOM for another bedroom. Plus, Tara's bio states that she's lived in that house all her life, so she would have shared a room with her mom while growing up, too.

2) My rogue pollination tech Ellison's five kids -- three boys and two girls -- all sleep in one big bedroom. Since Ellison -- unlike PT9 or Stella -- isn't very clued-in to human culture (and her human husband is a clueless Knowledge sim), her household halfway mimics the hivelike nature of her home planet. I'm thinking of splitting the big bedroom into two smaller bedrooms when the kids become teens, though, since I've been meaning to redo the interior of her house anyhow.

3) The Subject family, where chaos reigns and order is giggled at. Nervous and Frieda have had a total of six kids -- five from this marriage (all of which are 10 points active) and one from Frieda's previous marriage -- and none of those kids, with the exception of the very oldest before the others were born, have autonomously slept in the same bed two nights in a row. As a result, I decorated the kids' bedrooms with two beds per room in a very generic style since there was no guarantee who would be sleeping in which bed at any given time. Currently, that means that the two youngest daughters are sharing a room and I've turned the extra bedroom into a playroom/study. When the oldest four were still kids/teens, the gender disparity -- three boys and one girl -- meant that Grimhild shared a room with one of her brothers, usually her twin brother Test. They're such a close-knit puppypile of a family that I never thought of doing the rooms up differently, especially since they'd all crowd together in the same room as soon as they woke up.

That depends entirely on the family culture and resources. I tend to segregate by gender because that's how it was done in my family; but that doesn't always make sense to my sims.

My Simmigrant families live in two-bedroom apartments. In the Iana family, which started off with a mother, grandmother, one girl, and three boys, I had a female room and a male room. When Lourdes went to college, this automatically became a grownup room and a boy's room. In the Casa family, which started with two grandparents, two parents, teen and toddler daughters, and teen and child boys, there was a kid's room and a grownup's room from the git-go, with the teens taking a lot of responsibility for childcare.

The Hawkinses, who have kids willy-nilly, started in a cabin consisting of one long room in front, three rooms in back, and two bathrooms randomly stuck on around the edges (because they replaced the outhouses they used to have before Hootin Holler was dragged into the 20.5th century and weren't part of the original design): Ma and Pa in one room, the teen girl and the toddler in the middle room, and the teen and child boys in the last one. When the teen girl went to college, the teen boy was moved to the center room so he could mind the toddler and there'd be room for the dog in the third room with the boys instead of on the porch. Since then the family has added a second story and two more bathrooms and shifted sleeping arrangements according to the present state of the family. At one point, after the oldest boy grew to adult but before he moved out (he was, in theory, helping Pa add the second floor instead of going to college) he was sleeping in the same room as the baby and the first born in-game daughter, who was a child; but sometimes she put herself to bed in the same room as her favorite brother.

Joshua Ruben moved his family to Drama Acres from the two-bedroom apartment downtown when his daughter was born; had that daughter been a boy, he would have stayed, and the child would have slept in the same room as his stepbrother. Now there's a boy's room, girl's room, and parent's room, with the parents upstairs and the teen stepbrother acting as first responder to toddler needs. (My teen sims have a LOT of responibilities!)

The Beare family, planning on having six kids, just did a major remodel to create a convenient arrangement of baby nursery, parents' room, boys' room, and girls' room. The Goreys, who don't plan on having more than one kid, have one bedroom with an adjacent playroom. The Gavigans had a parents' room and a boys' room. When the twins were born, they built a nursery downstairs, which was transformed into the only girl's room when the twins hit childhood; now they're a multi-generational family with one room for each child and each married couple. And so on.

Each one gets a simlogical bunk bed 3-4 to a wall. Girls on one side boys on another. Jam them in like sardines while the parents get the big room. Usually the kid bedroom is 3x3 or 3X4 if the other rooms on either side are 4x4, and since they never go in there except to sleep it functions enough. I try to have a nursery with a seperate bathroom for babies/toddlers so they don't overtake the entire house. Though actually come to think of it if i just go 3 floors instead of the traditional 2 I could probably spread it on on a 2x3 lot instead of the normal 2x2 lots i play.

It depends on the family. In homes where things are sparse, I segregate the kids, and teens by gender. In homes where the teens have their own computer, tv, radio etc. in their room, it's segregated by age, because sims will turn on the radio and smustle, or play ssx3, and won't care that the little kids in the room are trying to sleep. Toddlers usually get their own room, or are put in a random living area that doesn't have a TV, if there aren't any other rooms.

Parents always get their own room, unless things are too crowded. Brandi Broke had three cribs in a two bedroom house, not counting Dustin/Beau who were in the teen/child stages at the time, so some of the babies got moved in with her, until there was enough money to add another small room.

I like for my sims couple who are married to have two children ( A boy and a girl ) most of my sims have a good job and is living well, therefore I like a home to have like three bedrooms. If I can not find a home I really like. I will build it myself or if there is one in the game I like I will add on and do a nice makeover.

I like for each of my sims kids to have their own bedrooms, and with a private bath connected to it. One thing I do that I think is "very important" is to be sure that each bedrooms can take a twin bed inside of it, and with lots of extra space for play and toys etc, for the children. My point is just incase the sims parents should have anymore future kids. Their will be lots of space for that boy or girl to share with the same sex.

A very long time ago when I first started playing the sims I had my first couple they had their first two kids, then turn around and had two sets of twins ( boys & girls ) six children all together in that household. This was before I added Pets EP to my game, those six children "Drove Me Nuts" I mean like nut !

I could not keep up with them they was always doing something. I like the child stage the best, so I did not let any of them be a teen yet, in between the homework and the kids fighting with each other. That was my end of me having so many children in one household. Since then I have limit my sims parents to two kids each, Maybe and that a Maybe I will go up to three or four children and that a big maybe. I now let the child be a teen, ( at times ) that way they can also help with the little ones. But right now Just two children for each couples in my game.

If I have to put the kids into shared rooms I usually go by gender but there are exceptions. And example would be if I have a teen daughter/son, 1 toddler daughter/son and 1 child daughter/son. The teen would get his/her own bedroom and the toddler and child would share a room. I try to keep it more towards gender than age but it doesn't always work out that way.

This is a pretty normal thing for me since in my own home my two sisters(1 child 1 toddler) share a bedroom together.

I have always liked having privacy, so I like to give my sims privacy. Each single adult sim gets their own bedroom in family households as soon as it is possible. Couples share their beds.

Most of my toddlers and babies sleep in the kitchen, dining room, or in a hallway. I used to make a big deal out of my sims having a nursery for the babies and toddlers until I started aging my sim kids as early as possible. Now there isn't much need to have a room converted into a nursery for that short amount of time. Even my pregnant female sims don't get pampered in a first floor room like I used to do. Put the babies in a corner in the kitchen and I know that is the most frequented room in the house.

By keeping the offspring count to one or less, I really haven't had too many occasions to pile the kids into one room or have kids sharing rooms with adults. I plan most of the pregnancies, so I know ahead of time whether the household has the funds to add another floor, or divide up a room into two smaller rooms. One time, I had one of the teens sleeping in the greenhouse. The family had extra money but I don't like doing a half-ass remodeling job. Letting the family work a few more days allowed them to have enough to add more bedrooms.

I've never had female kids share a bedroom with male kids. (Not that I remember.) But, when they get to be YAs, they will probably have to share their dorm rooms and even the bedrooms in the first house they live in after Uni - if they don't have family to return to. Even as adults, they rarely have to share a bed or bedroom with the opposite sex if they are not in a relationship with them.

In my game, it is easier to spot each child's personality when they have their own rooms. Teens may want to go read to younger siblings or even tuck in their parents when they have their own room. It is easier to see just how shy a kid is when they are not living in the shadow of their sibling. My sims rarely live on a lot too small to expand. So, the deciding factors are the financial state of the household and what mood I am in. If I move in a friend or another sim to be the live-in nanny, the nanny might have to sleep in the kid's room while the parents sleep. Or the nanny may end up sleeping on an old loveseat/sofa in the garage or barn. I think I manage to future-proof my houses well enough that adding an extra room doesn't bother me too much and doesn't take much time. I just get it done instead of spending hours fretting over it.

When I build my houses, I always keep in mind that an extra room or two might be needed in the future. More often than not, I will add another floor. So, I plan where the stairs will go so that it won't be a huge remodeling job, if the time comes to add-on. I even think about how I want to design the roofs in case I need to add on. Some of my houses don't have simple roof tops. In the past I'd happily just make the family move to a bigger house as soon as the mom got pregnant. Now that I spend a lot of time decorating my houses and landscaping, I'm not as quick to uproot the entire family just to accommodate additional spawn. More often than not, the family has enough room that friends or relatives move in to help with the kids, without the kids having to share their rooms because I don't allow them to breed too often.

I usually make kids share rooms by age, but now I'm going to change it to gender as long as it's not a huge age gap; I don't want toddlers messing up a teenager's room or making too much noise at night when the teen is trying to get his/her beauty sleep.

It's different for every family pretty much. Babies and toddlers can share a room with anybody no matter what gender; I've even had cribs in the hallway if I didn't have an extra room in the house for it. I guess typically though when I'm in a situation of separating rooms by gender or age I tend to do it by gender.

I shared a room with 6 people in a tiny highrise apartment for a while. Wasn't that bad, we had 3 bunkbeds crammed in there and a dresser. When I lived in Korea there was only 1 bedroom so we all shared it.

I haven't shared a room since a while back but it's not that bad. For my sims, I usually just plop them down in a room sorted by age or twin/triplet/quads.

It depends on the family and the house design for me. Sims which are living in a 1x1, three-storey plus basement house have the kids all sharing one bedroom (regardless of gender -- was fun when one family had a singleton and two sets of twins). Sims in larger houses/on bigger lots tend to have more bedrooms, but unless I plan ahead I often just shove all the children in the same bedroom, especially if I end up with triplets/quads.

I really can't see why siblings of the opposite gender couldn't share a room, so mine always do. I also practically never have only one sim in a room (some teens are an exception), since sims are very social creatures and crowd together 24/7 anyway. When they get to choose for themselves (and my sims usually do whatever they want, I hate to direct them, I want them to make their own decisions), they always go join somebody else. Everybody wants to sleep together in the double beds, that's always everybody's first choice. XD So my sim siblings (and cousins and aunts and uncles and all other family members who live together), regardless of age or gender, share a room or bed, however the h*ll they please. (Of course, babies and toddlers can't choose for themselves, so they all share a nursery.)

I pretty much always go with gender over age. This is especially true with teens and upwards. I think this because I've kind of had it drilled into me by my office that in my country kids of opposite genders aren't allowed to share a room over a certain age.

I've had to do the most bed juggling, and thinking about how the sims would feel about sleeping arrangements, in Sim State. It's usually pretty evident how the family as conceived is going to feel about the gender/age distribution of their kids, given how easy it is for me to place characters in a cultural and economic context. The biggest problem I'm likely to encounter is kids putting themselves to bed in double beds. I've tried to have same-gender teens and children share beds, which was a common arrangement in families I grew up among, but they always refuse to do so, so if a kid gets into a double bed I'm likely to be a short a bed for somebody older. That's simple - wake the kid up and make him use his own bed. But things can get complicated on campus.

The premise of the Alma Mater House is that, after the disaster, the will of the last surviving unincarcerated member of the family that owned the corporation responsible for the mining disaster set up, in addition to the legal settlement, a grant for the offspring of surviving mine families + the Newsons (whose parents died during the rescue attempts) to go to college. This is where the initial $500/kid came from when I sent the oldest teens of each core family to Sim State on Day 2 of the game. At first they lived in a dorm, with individuals peeling off into residences when they got engaged, but by the time the second age cohort came along there was plenty enough money to move them into a residence. I put a Craftsman's Pride on Crumplebottom Court and didn't tweak the layout, since I'd never used it before and didn't know what would and wouldn't work. So there's two bedrooms joined by a bath on the second floor, and one dormer room, one bath, and one big hang-out/study area in the attic.

This was plenty big enough for the students that moved in at the time. Gabriella Newson and Harris Hawkins were engaged, so they shared a room on the second floor, a second double bed to be used opportunistically for dating purposes went into the other big room, and Gavin and Gallagher Newson variously slept there or in one of the two twin beds in the dormer bedroom. Then I had to move Gavin's fiancee Naenae in because the game failed to save after a date he had with her, and it was the only way to save their relationship and the sorority she'd hitherto belonged to. So that couple got the second double-bedded room and Gallagher slept alone at the top of the house.

But Gavin graduated before Naenae, who had double lightning bolts with Harris and with Gallagher. Without ACR this didn't have to be a problem, but I figured it made her extremely uncomfortable sharing a bathroom with Harris and being that close to the sound of his bed Olympics with Gabriella (the Hawkinses not being big on privacy) without her fiance as a buffer. So she moved upstairs and Gallagher moved downstairs. But of course the attic isn't insulated, so whoever's sleeping in the dormer bedroom gets uncomfortably cold or hot at extreme parts of the season.

And THEN came the next age cohort - Georgia and Garrett Newson, and Merlin Hawkins. Suddenly I was short a bed; plus, Naenae and Gabriella both had TRIPLE lightning with Merlin. Fortunately Garrett and Merlin were best friends and could share the double bed; but what about when Naenae had a date with Gavin and wanted him to spend the night? Plus Georgia, who'd dated Merlin in high school, kept following him around and sleeping where ever he was, which is just tactless in a house where she had so many brothers. At that time Merlin had less lightning with her than with almost anybody and I wanted time to sort things out before committing them, so I had her pledge the sorority.

And so on. The smaller residences (all my dorms got glitched in various ways and I like to keep stories accessible in-game, so I maintain a couple of campus residences continuously) require similar juggling as age cohorts and romantic liasons come and go. Since the residences are presumed to be on leases which roll over from one semester to another, changing signatories as they go, I treat them like apartments - my sims can make decorative changes but not structural ones. You can fit a double bed or up to three twin beds per bedroom in the two-bedroom residences, but you also need room for parties, and if you don't want to spend a lot of time on community lots also skilling objects, bookcases, and computers. New residents often have only the slightest acquaintance with their roommates when they move in; and in those circumstances, it isn't appropriate to have mixed, unrelated genders sharing a room. So I'm juggling beds every time I add a new student to University. On one occasion, I moved a set of CAS "twins" who didn't have a high enough relationship to share a bed into a two-bedroom residence two nights before the last member of the original residence moved out. He wound up having to sleep on a cheap bed in the upstairs hallway because it made more story sense to bring a cot down from the attic for him than to move a double bed out and two single beds in just for a couple of nights.

Oddly, given all this, I have never yet told a college sim to sleep on the floor.

Gee, my Sim kids are so privileged: each kid has a room of his/her own from the moment of birth.
But there are exceptions too, if I play a challenge or purposedly make a poor family living in a house with two bedrooms only, then parents sleep in one room and all their kids (sometimes toddlers/children/teens together ) in other bedroom.

I haven't really thought about it. Mostly each child/teen has their own room but toddlers share a room and get a nursery. It is very random. Parents have a double bed shared together.

Never really thought about it, either. I have no brothers and sisters, so I don't really know much about how it works with sharing rooms between kids however, when there's enough space in the house -or when I feel like building- I tend to give a room to each kid, so that it can be themed on their own tastes. The only exception can be if I have two siblings (no matter which gender) who are in a very good relationship: in that case, I leave 'em in the same room. Parents usually have their own master bedroom and newborn kids are generally placed in the same room with them 'till they reach the "child" stage. I prefer to have kids and toddlers in the same room with their parents 'cos in that way they can be reached more easily if they need anything (probably that also has something to do with the fact that when I was veeeeeery little my parents used to keep me in their own bedroom, too). Twins, triplets and so on usually share the room 'till they reach their teens.

Unless my toddlers are twins/triplets/quads, every toddler gets their own nursery. When the toddlers wake up in the middle of the night, they wake up screaming their hearts out, thus waking up everyone else in the room. So I try to give every toddler a small nursery then a larger playroom for all the toddlers/kids who want to play with their toys. Children and teens usually get their own room, but if not they can share a room. I try to separate by age, not so much gender. It's plenty easy to find beds and so forth that are unisex for a male and female child who have to share their room.

Almost all of my starters are unfurnished, three bedrooms and two bathrooms but that doesn't mean everyone gets their own bedroom. The parents go in one bedroom, babies might go in the parents master bathroom, the kids in the second bedroom and the third bedroom is usually reserved for skilling objects. Once the family is established and earning some money the rooms get reorganized. Skilling is usually less of a priority by then and I like to spoil the kids with awesome bedrooms I would have loved to have had when I was growing up. But even then my sim kids almost always share bedrooms--even in wealthy families where they don't need to. If there are multiple bedrooms to use I tend to group them by age instead of sex but I have no problems stacking kids in a bedroom like sardines if need be.

I go by gender generally - occasionally, if space is an issue, I'll put infants/toddlers in the same room.