Sleepovers - when did they start?

coasterqueen wrote: When did your child(ren) start having kids spend the night at your house? I mean even cousins. We've had two sleep overs in the past week at our house -- both were cousins. The one we KNEW she was going to be an issue and not go to sleep. The other one had never slept at anyone else's house so we feared she'd have an issue going to sleep, but hoped not. We ended up having to take her back to her parents in the middle of the night.

I swear I'm DONE with sleepovers for awhile. I'm exhausted!!!

booey2 replied: Hi Karen, the only sleep overs so far have been when their entire family slept over,(my sister and her family) as family and friends are mostly from out of town. The kids would love to have had sleep overs sooner but again the distance factor. Anyway, Matt loved sleeping over at grandmas and started at about 5 or 6 and Thomas is still refusing to sleep anywhere that I am not and he just turned 6.

Hugs, I remember being the kid that had to be taken home on night because it had started to storm outside and I was really afraid. I was at my cousins house and my aunt was great, she just got up and took me home, about 2 minutes away by car.



Terri

Kaitlin'smom replied: Kaitlin has had one over at a friends house last year she was 4 and wants to have one at our house but I worry her friends parents wont want to have them 30 minutes away other wise I woudl have no problem doing them. Cousins well they have slept over all the time from when she was a few weeks old.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I've had the kids stay over at my mom's, the inlaws, and my grandmother's before, with no issue. They haven't gone to a friend's or cousins place though.

lisar replied: Lexi started this when she was about 4 I think.

MommyToAshley replied: Ashley still hasn't had a sleep-over. I personally just think she's too young. She was invited to a slumber party but she didn't go. It's one of those things that is a personal choice.

I am thinking maybe around the age 7-8 or so??? We'll have to see as she gets older.

Maddie&EthansMom replied: Maddie still hasn't had any sleepovers. She's been to my parent's house without me, but that's it. She will be 8 soon. I was going to say I would probably be ready when she's 10, but I really don't know. I would definitely let her stay with Olivia b/c her mom is my best friend and we've all been friends since the girls were 2.

I think you are brave for hosting it at your house. That, I'm not sure I will ever do.

luvmykids replied: I was wondering the same thing b/c both the twins want to have friends spend the night on their birthday. I would be more than happy to have their friends here, but I'm not sure I'd let them spend the night anywhere yet.

My2Beauties replied: As far as the girls staying over at family's houses, they were both but maybe 8 weeks old or so, they've always stayed with the IL's or my mom at least once a week since they were babies. As far as at a friend's house, I wouldn't hesitate to let Hanna do it now, I think it's important for your children to learn to sleep away from home so you and your SO can have some kid free time. I think 4 is a perfect age to start the sleepover thing.

coasterqueen replied: I guess I was asking more about having sleep overs at your house, not them at others. The girls have slept over at family homes for quite some time now and have no issues. It's other people's children that seem to have issues when they come to mine. Kylie wants to have more sleepovers at our house and I'm not sure I'm ready for it. I thought with the two she's had, them being cousins, would be fine -- but it hasn't been.

Kaitlin'smom replied: I would not mind it at all, infact we are hoping to be that house Kaitlin and her friends hang out at (thats the controlling side of me, so I can be involved as much as I can with her). We might try and have a friend over soon as she has been missing some from her class last year. I just dunno what the other parents feelings are.

Boo&BugsMom replied: Tanner has had plenty of sleepovers already. They have always been with kids we know though, never with a kid we didn't know well. Mostly they have been with friends of his from when I did daycare and family. I think the first time he had a sleepover was when he was 3. That doesn't include the times he has stayed over night at grandma's.

My2Beauties replied:
I think 4 is a good age for this as well. Hanna has slept over with cousins and I told my cousin that her little girl could stay the night whenever she wanted to.

A&A'smommy replied: my neice and nephew have been sleeping over with us since before alyssa ever came along.. BUT Alyssa just started sleeping over with them when she was about 2 but that is because they are really really close!

mom21kid2dogs replied: Olivia had one last week for 8 girls. About an hour before it started I thought, I thought "What am I doing?" It turned out to be great fun but I'm sure not cut out for all nighters like I used to be. Olivia (she's 7) went to her first sleepover in November. It was at the next door neighbors for about 10 girls (almost all neighbors as well). She's had friends sleepover (individually) since she was 5.

FWIW, she was invited to a boy/girl sleepover last year. Obviously, she didn't attend it. There is where I draw the line. Apparently (so I'm told) they are quite the thing these days

luvmykids replied:


Geez, we almost didn't let Nikka go to a lock in at her school b/c it was co-ed, and she is 13

My3LilMonkeys replied: My 2 nephews have been sleeping over even before the girls were born. They have gone on a few sleepovers to their aunt or grandma's houses - mostly when we were going to be out really late, but sometimes just for fun.

Maddie&EthansMom replied:
good call. Our lock ins were not supervised very well. Of course, it's probably different at your church. Looking back I can't believe what all we got by with at church functions.

Sam & Abby's Mom replied: boy-girl sleep overs ?! I think you just gave me a panic attack !

luvmykids replied:


The ONLY reason she ended up getting to go is b/c her best friends mom (who is even stricter than us LOL) was one of the chaperones and assured us that the boys and girls only had a certain amount of time in the gym together...then the girls went to the chapel and the boys stayed in the gym

Although DH is still hounding her, telling her he snuck in and asking if she wants to fess up to anything