I was at the kids' playgroup the other day and was talking to one of the people who run it. He knew that Mr Toddler was having trouble sleeping so asked me how he was doing. I told him we had moved him back into our own bedroom (and don't I feel silly? I read the Continuum Concept a year ago and it's taken me this long to bring the poor boy back in with us...) and that now the four of us are all together.
Instead of commenting on this he said instead: "You know, it makes you wonder why we have all these bedrooms!"
And of course it's true, at the moment my stepchildren sleep together in a double bed in the guest bedroom and my boys are in with us so there's currently two lovely bedrooms which are unused... I suppose it's to do with (supposed) wealth: sleeping together brings to mind poverty and cramped conditions so most of us tend to want to distance ourselves from this, if we all have a bedroom each we must be successful, we must be doing well.
Earlier today I was reading about a study that was conducted amongst the Bangladeshi community in the UK as there seem to be very few cases of cot death (SIDS) amongst them. Of course the vast majority of parents interviewed said they slept with their babies regardless of their financial situation.
One lady, in particular, said: "I like to wake up in the night and see my whole family around me". Isn't that lovely? That's just how I feel.
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