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phankao:
It's ok lah, he sleeps quite a lot these days, so should be ok. Plus our planned study is in the living room, so will not disturb him. For TV, he has earphones, so noise level not an issue. Sometimes he will tune down the volume to super low and read the subtitle.
Nice FIL you have. But i think quite inconvenient for the grandparent to stay with grandsons too. Different sleeping times and habits. Eg. MIL has insomnia and is quite deaf, so her TV would be on all night and at high volume.
You guys can sleep with the TV on all night at high volume? -
SAHM_TAN:
Luckily once we close our room doors, cannot hear. Can hear only when pass by her room. What to do? Stubborn MIL. Tell her, she don't believe. And she lock her room, so we cannot go in. And if we do, after accused of stealing or putting things of \"bad omen\" there, then how? :x
It's ok lah, he sleeps quite a lot these days, so should be ok. Plus our planned study is in the living room, so will not disturb him. For TV, he has earphones, so noise level not an issue. Sometimes he will tune down the volume to super low and read the subtitle.phankao:
Nice FIL you have. But i think quite inconvenient for the grandparent to stay with grandsons too. Different sleeping times and habits. Eg. MIL has insomnia and is quite deaf, so her TV would be on all night and at high volume.
You guys can sleep with the TV on all night at high volume? -
phankao:
Wow a mine field.
Luckily once we close our room doors, cannot hear. Can hear only when pass by her room. What to do? Stubborn MIL. Tell her, she don't believe. And she lock her room, so we cannot go in. And if we do, after accused of stealing or putting things of \"bad omen\" there, then how? :x -
SAHM_TAN:
yes I will build bookshelves elsewhere but add hanging cabinet on top of study table for study related books. Are you moving?
I'm separating the bookshelves from the study table, because my bookshelves will be for storybooks. These will be in their bedroom because that is where I read to them. I will most probably put up a wall shelf above the study table for books like dictionary, textbooks. This should not decrease the floor space too much.porcupine12trade:
This is what I plan to do when we move to our new place late this yr, but still not sure if it will make the living room cramp with study table+bookshelves. I have a design in mind (v similar to Ikea showroom
). I support putting computer in the living room 
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phankao:
I can understand the constrain. We are staying with my parents temp and my mum has LOADS of things. So though we take 2 rooms, the usable space is like only 1 room :lol: . My gals' room really no space for more books/clothes/toys haa basically i m stealing space from living room, my parents room, any space i can find la. we contemplated getting a maid, but did not coz there was no space for her to sleep! My parents welcome the idea of my gal sleeping with them, their room still hv comfortable sleeping place for 1, however they watch TV till wee hrs, so i din agree to let my gal sleep with them.
I also don't like, but then how? Kick my MIL out of the 3rd bedroom? Nobody else wants to share the room with her. She doesn't let anyone in either, not to clean it even!porcupine12trade:
I also do not like the idea of all kids in 1 room if mix gender, maybe its the way i was brot up, my sis n 1 = 1 room, my bro =1 rm. We had our study tables in our rooms, and yes I wld lie on the bed when i was supposed to study
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phankao:
sounds like you have big bedroom, its good, at least you can still put study table in the room :). nowadays they build bedrooms soooo small, they say family getting smaller, so dont need big apartment. hmmm doesnt make sense to me, i tot they advocating filial piety and hv more kids?
So if no extra room, then have to ask the boys to sleep in the living room, is it? ;DSAHM_TAN:
I'm alright for different gender to sleep in a room up to Pri 3. Now my 2 older kids (DD1 and DS2) sleeps with their father while I sleep with my baby because she does wake up for night feed. Once she's sleep through, we might try to sleep all together. Next phase will be all the 3 kids in one room. When DD1 is in P3, she and DD3 will be in one room while DS2 will sleep with his grandfather.
My 16+yo is sharing room with her 14yo & 11+yo brothers. -
SAHM_TAN,
We recently did that - hacked the wall, to build one more room, so now we have 4 rooms. We did that by converting 2 existing rooms, plus push out to take in some living room space, to get 3 rooms. Master bedroom remains intact.
I have 2 girls and a boy. Between the 2 girlsβ rooms is a wooden bi-fold door, which acts as a partition - can close if they want more privacy, or leave it open when they want to play together or chat before sleeping. The newly created room is meant for my son, but he is still sleeping with us, so we used that as a study room now.
For study area, I prefer them to study in a common area where 3 of them are together. I kind of like this arrangement, so that it is clear that the room is for sleeping and study area is for "working". However, I noticed that my eldest prefer to do her homework on her bed. I always tell her this is very "ζ°ζ§β, bad habit. Nowadays, I let her be, just no energy to keep insisting.
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porcupine12trade:
Nope, I'm in the process of major spring cleaning. Clearing out furniture bought on newlywed high. 3 kids later, realize need to be more children centric. Also building a mini home library so need to clear space for them as well.
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porcupine12trade:
They can say whatever they like to justify their actions. Doubt they lived in such homes, or else they would not say that there's more space per person. What nonsense. I visited my fren's home, it was like a prison, everywhere so cramp. A bed and that's it, no much place to move. I like him to visit and still tell me in the face that per person we are have more space
nowadays they build bedrooms soooo small, they say family getting smaller, so dont need big apartment. hmmm doesnt make sense to me, i tot they advocating filial piety and hv more kids? -
littlecloud:
I like the wooden bi-fold door idea. Still need to check with HDB if we can hack the wall, if it comes to that.SAHM_TAN,
We recently did that - hacked the wall, to build one more room, so now we have 4 rooms. We did that by converting 2 existing rooms, plus push out to take in some living room space, to get 3 rooms. Master bedroom remains intact.
I have 2 girls and a boy. Between the 2 girls' rooms is a wooden bi-fold door, which acts as a partition - can close if they want more privacy, or leave it open when they want to play together or chat before sleeping. The newly created room is meant for my son, but he is still sleeping with us, so we used that as a study room now.
For study area, I prefer them to study in a common area where 3 of them are together. I kind of like this arrangement, so that it is clear that the room is for sleeping and study area is for \"working\". However, I noticed that my eldest prefer to do her homework on her bed. I always tell her this is very \"ζ°ζ§β, bad habit. Nowadays, I let her be, just no energy to keep insisting.
What do other parents think? Do you insist they do work in the study area?
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