About a year ago we adopted two siblings who are now 2 and 4 years old (with the 4 year old now attending reception at school). They share the same bedroom. Before moving in with us our social worker suggested that they sleep in different bedrooms, but their social worker thought it was a good idea to keep them together for a while to help with the transition (as the 2-year old used to sleep in the same bedroom as the foster carers).
Initially everything went well. However, lately the 2 year old is increasingly having trouble falling asleep (he cries for a while most nights before falling asleep) and regularly wakes up in the middle of the night crying, which wakes up the 4 year old. We are also finding that because the 4 year doesn’t require as much sleep, he wakes up earlier and starts talking and making noises which wakes up the 2-year old. The 4 year old is also ready to go to the bathroom by himself in the middle of the night/morning if he needs to (although he doesn’t do it often as he says he doesn’t want his younger brother to get out of bed when he does so).
We were thinking of moving the 4-year old to a different bedroom. We were planning on asking him first what his preference is (if he prefers to continue sleeping in the same bedroom as his brother or in a different bedroom), but we were wondering what other people’s experiences were and if you had any advice.
Thanks
