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Mine do and they love it! DD and DS have shared a room since DS was born and they are pretty much inseparable. I feel like if they had separate rooms their relationship wouldn't be nearly as close. Of course, when DD gets to be older she'll need her own space but for now it works.

I would, probably through elementary school.

I would. I shared a bedroom with my brother until I was 16 and we could afford to move into a bigger place.

I would, but the hubs would want them to have separate rooms (regardless of sex).

i was just thinking about that today, and am encouraged that it's an "okay" thing.

My little brother and I shared growing up. We were around 2 years apart and pretty close. I think we shared until I was 10-11, which is around the timewhen my older brother went to college, which freed up an upstairs bedroom. We never minded it. It was a huge room (like master bedroom sized) and my Dad built bookcases once we were a bit older that went almost to the ceiling that split the room in half so there was some privacy too.

That's our plan for DS and DD once the name starts sleeping through the night. I'm not sure how long we'll have them share a room but we want them to be close and to have each other and think that sharing a room will encourage that. We recently redecorated DS's room -- what will be their room -- and it's very fun, bright/light and gender neutral. They will only be 12 months apart anyway so close enough in age that it shouldn't matter.

I would until about 7-8. DH is opposed under any circumstances, which I think is weird. He wants to move before we have #2 so this won't be an issue.

8-9. My niece & nephews are 10 now and I am a at that vague line where I'm not sure if they should be sleeping in the same room any more when they visit. For now I'm leaving it up to my niece to tell me when she wants to sleep in a separate room. I won't make her because they are inseparable when together.

I shared a room with one of my older brothers until he was 7 (I was 3), and then my parents thought that he should be in with the other boys.

Honestly, if we have the space and have another LO we'll probably keep them in separate rooms from the start....we'd like to give each of them a quiet place that is just theirs to retreat to if needed.

Yes. We have a three bedroom home. I plan to always have one room set up as a nursery until I'm done having children. All other children will share the big bedroom regardless of sex and then once were done with the nursery I'll split the kids by gender into the two rooms. I'm ok with shared rooms until age ten-ish I'd say?

Yes but max about 4.5 years old.
because 1: I feel that at that point they know boy vs. girl parts if they see them and I don't want to make rules like, "you can only get dressed in the bathroom, never your own room."
2: we have enough rooms so I don't want my kids to have to share a space if they don't have to, especially if they are boy/girl. If they were boy/boy and wanted to stay together, sure.

Nope. But then again, I don't want my kids to share a room regardless of gender. I think it's important for kids to have their own space.

@MamaMoose: ditto

We plan on it for the next few years. However, we are moving soon and if our next apartment has 3 bedrooms then they won't share. Also. since we live in apartments rather than own, and depending on the city, a 3 bedroom might not always be possible.

No.

If we didn't have enough rooms we would!

My brother and I shared rooms through grade school!

Yes if we didn't have enough rooms.

I would, until they got older. I shared with my brother until 5 or 6.