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@Rema Did you have a negative experience that made you decide not to allow it for your own children or that’s just your decision?
My parents allowed it but at my best best best friends house whose family we knew since we were both in 1st grade and I think we started sleepovers after a year or two of my parents knowing her parents and family. And she would come over as well... We were basically family. I don't think it was that big a deal for most people when we were growing up.
With cousins only
Funny story…not that anyone asked lol…one of my best friends from high school wanted a sleepover birthday party and her mom was so concerned we were all gay or experimenting or something that we all had to sleep in separate rooms of the house…totally weird lol
I would have sleepovers with friends and same with my brothers. But it was a very different time and my parents personally knew a lot of the parents that I was and my brothers were friends with. We grew up in a small town and my parents went to school with my friends parents.
Not so much a negative experience. I made up my mind after talking to several adults that have been abused and many times it’s during sleepovers that these things happen. I used to be a social worker before I became a mom.
I loved sleepovers as a child. That being said, I likely will not allow my kids too. It’s kind of sad but not worth the risk
what the hell lol. that’s wild & defeats the whole point of a sleepover @Natalie
Yes I was. We don’t allow them.
I was allowed but my parents had to meet their parents..im not allowing it though
i’m not sure yet whether i will allow it or not but i do definitely hear & understand the concerns but at the same time like you i grew up having sleepovers & they were the BEST & don’t even get me started on sleepaway camp that was so fun @Haley
I understand this because I agree that sleepovers were the best! Some of my best memories as a kid are at sleepovers. But I also understand that I am very very lucky to only have positive experiences. It’s tough because I am sad that my kids will not get these experiences. But the statistics are just so damning
Yes and I will allow it for my kids as well
It depends on if the house is cat free or not. Since I’m allergic, I would not allow him to go to a house with a cat.
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thats valid @Lauren
Yes but only at my closest friends house who i havew known since a very young age
Yes and I used to love it but my parents knew my friends' parents well, small town etc. My kids are also allowed sleepovers but only ever been to my best friend's house really and scouts camps too.
Yes, I had loads as a kid/teen they were great fun. Some of the best memories of my childhood were fun sleepovers. My son has only slept over at his grandparents' and cousins' house. i sort of feel sorry he missed the friends' sleepovers (he is 15 years old and some of his friends at school are in group/support homes do can't do that unfortunately) but he still has sleepovers just not like how i remember.
I did with family and won't allow it to my children
Yes but only with friends that my parents were also friends with their parents And so long as I know the family I will allow it for my children too
I’d stay at my grandparents & my cousins houses until I was about 8, then stayed at friends houses from then but only when my mum knew the other persons mum first 😊 Then due to where I lived (middle of nowhere in wales) I’d always choose to stay at my friends’ houses as they was in the local town, once I got older 😊 Now (at 30) I couldn’t think of anything worse than not staying at home 😂😂
My mom didn’t allow it at all. Then my parents got divorced and my dad let me but only very close family. Now as a mom I won’t allow it.