How do I include our college-son in our new home?
We are moving this fall, just after our son (18) starts college. He won’t see our new home until he comes home for Thanksgiving break.
Our other son (15) and our daughter (11) will each get their own bedrooms in our new home, but it’s unlikely we can afford more than a very basic 3 bedroom rental. We’re starting a new jobs, money will be tight.
Right now the boys live in the same room in bunk beds, but we promised our younger son that they will go away and he can have a regular bed and the bedroom to himself. Actually, the bunk beds aren’t even ours and we can’t take them with us.
We don’t want to have our older son feel like a visitor in our home (which will be totally unfamiliar to him), yet we don’t have the luxury of providing him a space of his own for the many months that he will be home.
How do we make him feel like he’s still truely included in our family when there’s no permanent place for him in our new home, especially during long breaks such as winter and summer breaks?
We won’t have a basement, we’re moving to the Northwest coast – Washington, Oregon or Northern California – where there are none. At least I’ve never seen a basement in the region, and I lived there for almost 30 years of my life. Actually, I’ve never seen a (usable) attic, either.
Make him feel welcomed like he is at home, that’s the perfect respect and ettiquette……….
March 30th, 2010 at 7:32 am
Make him feel welcomed like he is at home, that’s the perfect respect and ettiquette……….
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March 30th, 2010 at 7:42 am
do you have a basement, you could make a room there. Im sure he will just apreciate being home sometimes , maybe a room above a garage if you have one.
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March 30th, 2010 at 8:22 am
What about a basement? When my sibilings and i were teens we would fight over the basement because we loved our room being there. That way he can have his own little studio, at home with you guys.
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