Not every child has a bedroom to themselves. And in situations where two siblings share a room it can be beneficial to use a video baby monitor to keep an eye on things.
This is particularly worth thinking about if you have two children who are at slightly different ages. While you would try not to put a baby in with an older child, you might have a toddler in with a sibling who is just a year or two older, and it is here that you may experience problems.
All children learn and develop at different rates. But it is obvious that a toddler is going to be behind the developmental age of a child who is a year or two older than they are. And this is when you need to think about using a video baby monitor rather than just a simple audio only version. It will enable you to keep an eye on what is going on when the two children are in the room together.
It is easier to see what is happening and how the siblings are interacting with each other during the day, when you can supervise more closely. But when they go to bed at night you cannot really stay with them to make sure all is well before they drop off to sleep. A traditional audio baby monitor will not allow you to check on them closely enough if you think they may get up to things when you have left the room. But a video monitor certainly will do.
The suggestion is not that children will always get into trouble if they cannot be seen in this way. But the older child may do things or play with things that could cause a problem without them even realising it. In addition you may be experimenting with allowing them to share a room before deciding whether it is the best course of action or not. If it works fine, but if it doesn’t you want to know what the problems are. And a video baby monitor will certainly help you in this respect.
If you have a standard audio monitor at the present time you may want to consider buying a video monitor as well. It will enable you to keep a closer eye on more than one child at the same time.