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From: raghu@rlgvax.UUCP (K. Raghunathan)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: room sharing
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 02:29:17 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 02:29:17 1984
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	Reading all about room-sharing here makes me want to relate
	my experiences with room-sharing when I was young (in INDIA)
	if only to let people realize how good (or is it bad?) kids
	in America have it.

	We are a family of six (four children - 2 boys, 2 girls) and
	we lived in a 2 bedroom house. All 4 of us children shared one
	bedroom till the eldest of us (my elder sister) was 16 and the
	youngest was 8; I was 14. Then we moved to a 3 bedroom house
	where the girls shared a bedroom (till my sister, at 18, went
	off to college) and the boys shared a bedroom (till I went to
	college at 18).

	We got along famously together even when all four of us were
	cramped in one bedroom (even though we had occasional tiffs
	as all kids do). I can't understand what all this noise about
	kids wanting privacy is about. In my experience children enjoy
	sharing with other children and get lonely very soon if left
	to themselves (ofcourse, we didn't have any choice in my family).

	When I have children, I'll make sure they share a bedroom (max.
	2 to a room) even if I have extra bedrooms; unless they
	specifically ask for seperate rooms. I think it is healthier
	to share things from the start rather than create an atmosphere
	of "mine - yours".

	NOTE THAT MY EXPERIENCE IS BASED IN INDIA AND MAY NOT APPLY
	IN THE U.S., BUT I DON'T SEE WHY IT SHOULDN'T.