I need a bigger room!?
Question:I moved in 8 months ago. My oldest brother assigned rooms. He gave me the samllest room and I had no choice. My other brother who is 19 has a bigger attic room and I want it!! How can I convince my parents to give me a bigger room?!?! I also though my oldest brother was unfair by not letting us choose. I need a bigger room!
Answers:
Explain to your parents that you want the ATTIC ROOM. Don't say your brother's room. Be serious, mature, and have them sit down in a place where you all won't be interrupted. Explain that you feel you deserve the room, that it was unfair of the way the rooms were distributed, and then start to state facts about the clutter of your room or expanding of your life to fit it. Slowly bring your brother into the conversation, since he's the oldest, of course he's going to be unfair about it. Is his room a complete and utter mess? He doesn't take care of his room while you take care of yours. He doesn't have as many things to fit as you do, and in a smaller room, there's less work to be done when he finally moves out, which should be pretty soon, correct?
Then move on to ask them that this will make you more responsible about your space. Ask them what you need to do to convince them, but remind them that this is a REAL situation and that you want them to make their answers realistic, not come up with things you won't be able to accomplish. Once that's done, bring your brother into the room with your parents. Ask him to stay quiet until you've finished because you don't want an argument to begin. You want this to be handled civilly, and like adults.
Restate what you want to happen. Restate all the points you made to your parents about him being unfair in his room distribution, but make sure you phrase it so you say "I feel ____ because...". This way, it really looks like you've put a lot of thought into it and like you seriously care about what's going on. Bring up how he'll be moving out eventually and how it'll be easier to clean up a smaller room than a big one once he's gone. Then ask him what he'd like, REALISTICALLY, in order to exchange rooms.
I hope this works. My older brother and I used to have rooms right across from each other and we would switch rooms in the middle of the night. Eventually my parents moved him to the basement and I was moved into his room, and my room became a guest room. I wanted to move into the basement for a short while because it was four times bigger than my room, but the idea of so many bugs quickly changed my mind.
Good luck!
okay talk it over with ur parents. be resonable with them. i answered yuor question because its so annoying when yuo dont get very many answers to questions. i know how u feels thats how one of my questions are right now. hehe
-danielle
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