My 7yo has a double bed. He got the guest bed when #2 was born and needed the crib. #2, now not-quite-3yo, has a twin.
We’ve appreciated having the big bed in #1’s room because it’s much more comfortable when someone is in there sleeping with him (which happens more than I’d care to admit). I also like to have extra sleeping space in case of guests.
In the United States, single beds are usually sold in pairs, so they’re commonly referred to as “twin.”
Woah…they are? I did not know that. I’ve always wondered why they’re called twins.
Our 6 year old daughter has a twin bed. Our 4 year old son has a double (Which was my husband’s bed when we met) , because his room is the guest room when we have visitors, and he moves into our King for the duration.
When they shared a room the first shared the double bed, and then when we could afford to buy new beds they each had their own twin.
If we ever move into a house with 4 bedrooms, the double will remain the guest bed and the boy will go back into his own twin bed.
I hope your son doesn’t end up very tall. I haven’t been abel to sleep in a full/double since I was 14 or so. The extra 5" on a long twin or queen is invaluable to someone over 6’.
The kids always had twin size beds, as did I through college until I married, and then again after when I wasn’t married. I’ve never wanted a larger bed, nor even a longer bed despite being 6 feet tall. And I’ve never had a headboard or footboard either. When I stay at hotels I’m always smashing into the things as I toss at night.
I should add that now that my daughter is on her own she has switched to a sailor’s hammock, which quickly swings out of the way to leave her more room in her room.
I think part of the reason children have bigger beds now is that people have fewer kids. Instead of having to fit 2-3 kids in one room, now with just one or two kids, each one will have their own rooms and can fit a bigger bed.
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In fact, I’ve always only thought of the two beds together as twins, so this room has twin beds.
If you’ve only got one of those beds in a room, that’s a single bed. (Of course, if someone says they have one twin bed, I know what they’re talking about.)
Growing up, I had a double bed, and my brother had bunk beds, each of which was a single mattress. I think the point was that each of us would be able to have a friend sleep over. I’m obviously an elderly Puritan, because the idea of child have a queen (or larger!) size bed is astonishing to me.
My boys had a mix of single and double, though mostly single, and mostly bunk beds. My oldest son had a daybed with a trundle and my youngest a toddler bed until they were about 8 and 4. They had a bunk bed with a single on top and a double on bottom until they were about 11 and 7. We moved into a smaller apartment and they had a bunk bed with 2 singles for a couple of years until we moved to California, where they then each had there own room and my oldest had a double, my youngest had a single captain’s bed with another single tucked under it. Until he turned into a little shit from hell (age 15) and I sold everything in his room. Then he had a sleeping bag and a pillow.
My two kids are small, furry, have tails and purr. They sleep on a king-size bed with me and my partner.
I wonder if some of it is that the price difference between full and twin often aren’t that great–15-20%, IME. Back when kids were packed 2-3 to a 10x10 room, the twin was more desirable, no matter what the price. But now, there is enough room for the full and it’s not much more for the full and there is so much more utility in the bigger bed–for co-sleeping, for guests, for when junior shoots up to 6 feet and needs to sleep on the diagonal, etc. People do not replace their kids’ mattresses much, if ever–the one they buy for the 3-year old is often the one the college student will sleep on in the summers. That’s a lot of years of more utility for an extra $100.
Also, sometimes the better mattresses aren’t even available in twin. People buy better stuff for their kids than they used to (in the 60s, feeding the kids hamburger while the parents ate steak was not unheard of, I’ve heard) and that includes mattresses.
That’s one of the reasons my daughter has a double bed (well, an Ikea double, which is slightly larger than standard). It was something like a tenner more for the whole frame and the mattress. Given that it’s a loft-bed, and the double makes it much easier to use the space underneath, it was a simple decision.
When she first got it, you could have fit six of her in there. 
Her bed before that was a special kids’ bed shaped like a car. It was sooo damn cool - wish we could have kept it.
My boys (5 & 3) share a room and they each have a single bed. We had them on opposite sides of the room, but they always ended up in one of the beds sometime in the middle of the night, so we moved the beds together and they both sleep on what amounts to one big king-sized bed. They still both end up on the one that’s closest to the wall.
I slept on a twin size bed until I was a teenager, then I got a relative’s old queen-size waterbed. I used that for a few years, then switched to a full when I moved out of my parents house, and I still use a full.
My parents have always used a full bed for themselves - I’ve asked them and apparently they don’t feel any need to get a queen. I guess that’s probably uncommon for an adult couple.
My son had bunk beds in his room until he was in around the 8th grade. My daughter had a twim sized bed until she was in the 7th grade. At that time we moved to a new house and got each kid a double bed. Doe is in college now and sleeps on a single bed at school, and on her old double bed at home. Nick is in the Navy and when he got an apartment he took his old bedroom set with the double bed.
The nice thing about a double bed for kids is that you can turf the kids out of their room when you have company and use it for a guest room.
You’re right about that. I thought I was so brilliant buying one for my first son, because I’d never have to buy another bed! It didn’t occur to me that I might have more kids who would need a crib to sleep in. :smack:
Now all three of my boys have single captain’s beds, because that what fits in their attic bedroom.
My six siblings and I always had twin/single beds growing up, although I got a queen waterbed at 16. My two daughters had twin/single beds as children. One daughter now has twin boys (5 yo) who have twin bunk beds. Other daughter: my 9 yo grandson has a bunkbed that has a full mattress on the bottom and a single on top; the granddaughter (2 yo) has a queen mattress & box springs that used to be mine, and the 3 mo has a crib. However all three children generally sleep with Daughter in the king-sized bed and the dad sleeps in one of the kids’ beds.
I don’t need a crib anymore, but because we went with a convertible, my daughter’s toddler bed and her full size bed to be has infant teething marks all over it! :smack:
In her room, my daughter has a full sized bed for herself, and an extra long twin for guests. Before we moved, she slept in the twin, and shared a room with my sister (they’re the same age), and the full sized bed was mine. When we moved in here, I gave her the full sized, and bought myself a queen.
Single beds are not the same size as twins. Twins are narrower, they are each 1/2 of a double bed.
