separate albums for adult children?

I make two albums of everything. One for each kid. They take up quite a bit of space, but I don't know how to make it fair otherwise. I would love to have a 12 x 12 scanner to scan pages.

My kids have individual albums of their early years, then nearly everything is in family albums. There are a few events that only matter to one child, so they are in their individual albums too.
Now they are grown and living away from us, I don't have many photos of 'everyday' from either of them. What I have from the past 8 years has been from them visiting us or us visiting them, so the are either in my annual albums or a travel one.

I love this question! Long answer though! IfI could go back I would do separate albums all the way. Up until the year 2005 I did family albums. I have slowly started the process of separating them so they are separated up to 1994. I have only 2 children, but many layouts are of one or the other. At some point I hope that each son can take, if they want, their entire scrapbooked lives.

If a page is just about them it will be in their album. If a page is about both of them or something I will actually either redo the page into 2 pages or I will copy one page for the other boy.

Starting in 2005 I decided that each boy will have his own albums. I have done it like that ever since then. If something is about me or their dad I make 2 layouts usually by splitting the photos and one boy gets a few and the other gets a few. I order double prints if needed and copy layouts but gearing them toward each boy. For example this past Christmas each one got a 2 page spread but they had their own photos on it plus one or 2 shared photos.

My challenge is the albums of my life, their dad's life, wedding album, my heritage albums. I hope someday there is a family history keeper to pass these on to - maybe a grandchild or other relative. If they get tossed when I'm gone, oh well. I do not want my boys or anyone else having to try to divvy up layouts or photos from completed albums.

My grandmother split all of her photos among her 3 kids which sounds like a great idea but many shared photos ended up with one and not the other so there are gaps in the family history when you try to put it together. Like I have all the pics of my mom but she didn't live an isolated life - she grew up in a family that we don't have photos of for example her baby sister. There is one group shot featuring her baby sister and that's it.

The biggest problem is I have well over 100 albums. I really have no idea how many I have. Many are 12x12 - I did 12x12 for about 5 years before switching back to 8.5x11. My older son told me there is no way he is taking all those albums and he's my hoarder child! They also have their individual school albums, sports albums, and other theme albums made just for them.

No doubt no matter what I end up with when I pass on, they will be overwhelmed by all the albums but I will have enjoyed looking at them up to my last breaths.

I have three children - only one is an adult so far.

I made individual First Year albums for each one - I still need to finish the youngest's (oops). I did do soccer albums for the older two (youngest didn't play), a Boy Scout album for my son and Girl Scout albums for the girls (still in progress).

Other than that I've done a family album, chronologically since. I started with the year my oldest was born (1991) - before that I have my own albums (in theory - not many are scrapped) and eventually I'll have some for DH as well (we were separated until 1998 so his individual will continue to then).

My son lived at home until he left for Navy bootcamp so he stayed in the family albums until then - and when he came home on leave, those pictures ALSO went in the family album.

I do plan on making an album covering enlisting, his farewell party, boot camp, PIR, liberty, A-school, and working with the recruiters when he was home on leave (uniform pics). I'm almost caught up (2 more batches of pictures to go) on the album for his first duty station - it has the pictures he's sent me (via FB) and the couple that his command has posted and the postcards from his sightseeing...he'll be there until Spring of 2019.

My middle child plans to live at home for at least a little while after high school - I plan to keep her in the family album until she moves out. Then I'll probably scrap the photos she sends me in a separate album but continue to keep photos I take during family events in the family album. We'll see...

I am scanning layouts as I complete a month and slowly going back and scanning older albums - I anticipate my children wanting digital versions not actual hardcopies down the road.

I gave up on kid albums after they turned 5. Two aren't finished and they are well past that age. I do family albums. My daughter might want them, but I doubt it.

My kids have a baby album then a school/activities/friend album that's ongoing until they start college. From then on they only appear in the family albums.

I've never had separate albums for anybody. I started scrapping when my oldest was one. Both kids are now young adults. Works for me.