Opinions on sharing a room

I think the benefits of sharing are quite numerous - social, emotional, lifestyle, getting along, being closer, organization, quite areas, time-out areas, on and on. That said there are probably three reasons you'll meet people who say they longed to have their own room as a child. 1. Their family was poor and they couldn't have their own room or anything else much of their own and they always felt that as a pinch (i.e. if it is choice for the family this usually isn't such an issue), 2. major sibling personality clash and conflicts, and 3. particular kid with a temperament that need a lot of solitude, thinking time and space. So, I'd watch out for those issues and, if you don't think they are big issue, I would do sharing. I would do sharing with kids under say 7 or 8 regardless and older than 12 I MIGHT be inclined to let them choose even over my "better" judgement.