It's been a long day in the Johnson house. Mother Trish started out early making Ethan, 8, and his six year old sister Sara their lunch, then packing up four year old Tommy into the car in order to take them all to school. Trish then went to pick up Tommy's friend Ryan, also four, whom she looks after while his mother and father are at work. Today was not a banner day in Tommy and Ryan's relationship, as they fought about everything. By the time Ethan and Sara got home, Trish was ready to abandon her piece of real estate in Milton Ontario and live in the woods. And things just got worse from there; Tommy and Ryan both felt crowded by the entry of the older children, who wanted the preschoolers out of their way.
Every family encounters a space problem at one time or another. In the case of the Johnsons, there was enough room in their house, but they still felt crowded. Imagine if they had purchased real estate in Georgetown Ontario with only three bedrooms and no yard.
Everyone in a family needs to have a place to retreat to, away from everyone else, when they start to feel crowded. Particularly in families with more than four members, overcrowding can feel like a big problem. When you are thinking about buying a Toronto condo, or any other home, the matter of space and your family's needs should be uppermost in your mind.
The need for each family member to have a place to go when they need privacy becomes more pressing as your children get older. When you start out, you can look at Mississauga townhouses for sale which have only a couple bedrooms because younger children don't mind sharing a room. Brothers and sisters will even share a room quite happily until around the time school starts, when they start to develop different interests.
Children of the same gender can share a room even longer than that. Teenage boys, for example, seem to have no problems sharing a room and feeling crowded until they reach the driving and dating years. Girls can be a bit different, as females tend to need more space and feel more territorial and private than their male peers.
So to start out with, you may not need a room for each of your children. But as they get older, you will start to notice the strain this can cause. When your kids hit the teenage years, it will be time to start looking for a house for sale in Mississauga with a room for each child, and maybe a sanctuary for yourselves as well.
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