Friends Sleeping arrangement

[Michigan48111]

I was over a friends place for the first time over the holidays. His parents recently moved and now my friend (boy who is 13) his sister (who is 15) sleep in the same room as their parents. All their beds are in one room, my friend has bunk beds that are right next to his parents bed and his sister's is across the room against the opposite wall. I was asked if I wanted to sleep over sometime and could stay on the bunk empty lower bunk bed.

Do you guys think its weird for parents to share a bedroom with two teen kids, I would really feel uncomfortable sleeping there, but does any one on VT or does any one's friends have a similar arrangement where the teen kids and parents are in the same room?

:confused:

[Noirtier]

I was over a friends place for the first time over the holidays. His parents recently moved and now my friend (boy who is 13) his sister (who is 15) sleep in the same room as their parents. All their beds are in one room, my friend has bunk beds that are right next to his parents bed and his sister's is across the room against the opposite wall. I was asked if I wanted to sleep over sometime and could stay on the bunk empty lower bunk bed.

Do you guys think its weird for parents to share a bedroom with two teen kids, I would really feel uncomfortable sleeping there, but does any one on VT or does any one's friends have a similar arrangement where the teen kids and parents are in the same room?

:confused:

Yeah, I would find that to be more than a little odd if I were to stay the night there. The arrangement itself is odd, and awkward, and it's not "normal" by any modern standards. My question though, is how big is their house? They may not have enough rooms for each person to have their own bedroom, or even for the kids to have one room and the parents to have another. Because that is the sleeping arrangement that some people who don't have a very big house--because of monetary reasons--have. Especially in these rough economic times, not everyone is going to be able to have the ideal living conditions that we've grown accustomed to. If they do have an average sized house though, I'm not sure why they would choose to have this sort of living arrangement. If you're not comfortable staying the night there with this sort of living arrangement--which, I'll be honest, I wouldn't be comfortable staying in that situation--then there's nothing forcing you to stay the night. It's perfectly acceptable for you to just hang out there and go home when it's night. Or, you and your friend could sleep on the couch if they have one, if you stayed the night there. I've done that before, at several people's houses. But, to sum up, yeah, that is an odd arrangement to live in, but I would venture to guess their parents have a reasoning behind it.

[HunterSteele]

Are there enough rooms in the house for them to have separate rooms? If not, then they don't exactly have a choice.

[Michigan48111]

They moved from a house to an old school converted to apartments, it seems really weird why but there is one bed room / bath room they have access to, i just don't know why they would leave a house to go to this.

[AuthorX303720]

Well some people are faced with hard situations. Maybe it could have been finacial?

[FreeFall]

If the parents decided to move into a place that's smaller and stick their teen children in the same room with them; weird.

If they had no choice due to money; still weird, it's just understandable then.

[HunterSteele]

there is one bed room / bath room they have access to
Then they couldn't sleep in separate rooms even if they wanted.

FreeFall: It's not weird at all. Is it weird that someone doesn't have enough money for a large house? No.

[Steve Jobs]

Hmm, that's kinda weird! If you have more room at your place, why don't you suggest having it at yours instead? It does depend on their parents too though, some friends' parents are at that level I almost call them parents too while others really creep me out :P