Is it really so terrible if your kids aren’t drawn to hanging in the common areas of your house? In the “living room vs. bedroom family” debate, the reality isn't so black and white.As young kids, my sister and I would often take our toys out of our bedrooms into the communal spaces of our childhood home. We’d use the sofa as a pretend bus, the dining table as a pretend hotel. Save for the kitchen, no shared area of the house was off-limits to us, as long as we tidied the toys up afterwards. We only ever used our bedrooms for sleep. Recently, TikTok creators have been talking about the joys of being a part of a “living room family” – as opposed to a “bedroom family”, where kids hang out in their bedrooms instead. In many of the TikToks shared, creators break down how they think families foster these two kinds of family dynamics and how they influence kids’ behaviour. &