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[DewDropInn]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Me too! I loved it! I often had five to seven kids sleeping over at once! I have an endless supply of pillows and blankets!

How big is your house and how many bathrooms do you have?

Sorry, but I'm feeling enormously snoopy this morning.

(Five to seven kids sleeping over "often" plus five people in my family probably would have collapsed our loo.)

[Momma_bear]

Originally Posted by Mattie

I have to say I'm surprised that I seem to be the only one who didn't allow going out or entertaining on school nights. I consider myself a pretty liberal parent, but school nights here are for studying and homework.

We only make rules when we need them. We don't make rules just to make them. If we needed to keep the kids focused on school we would add a rule to help them do that. But they are all good students so we haven't needed that rule. Since we don't have a million rules my kids have very few problems complying with the rules we do have.

[AnonChick]

Originally Posted by DewDropInn

How big is your house and how many bathrooms do you have?

Sorry, but I'm feeling enormously snoopy this morning.

(Five to seven kids sleeping over "often" plus five people in my family probably would have collapsed our loo.)

Hopes doesn't have bathrooms. She has a whole bath house on the west wing. There's a sauna, massage room, a lavatory section with 4 bidets, 8 urinals, and 20 squatting toilets. There's a seperate shower room with 16 sectioned shower heads and jets coming off the wall in 3-foot intervals, two 4-person jacuzzis, a cooling pool, two sitz baths, and a special mechanized doohickie out back to turn all the waste product into fertilizer for their 20-acre wheatgrass farm.

They don't lock that bathhouse either. But they do lock the doohickie so the 4 year old doesn't fall in by mistake.

[LeavingMassachusetts]

Originally Posted by Hopes

Me too! I loved it! I often had five to seven kids sleeping over at once! I have an endless supply of pillows and blankets!

I got to know my children's friends, and I always knew where my children were and what they were doing!

The only time I hated the house full was cooking breakfast on the weekends. Dear Lord the food.

My oldests best friend is a girl (has been since they were in diapers) she spent the night a lot too. Even raided my closet and stuff all the time like she was my own daughter.

[AnonChick]

Originally Posted by LeavingMassachusetts

The only time I hated the house full was cooking breakfast on the weekends. Dear Lord the food.

My oldests best friend is a girl (has been since they were in diapers) she spent the night a lot too. Even raided my closet and stuff all the time like she was my own daughter.

Was she a boy before they were in diapers? Or something else...

[LeavingMassachusetts]

Originally Posted by AnonChick

Hopes doesn't have bathrooms. She has a whole bath house on the west wing. There's a sauna, massage room, a lavatory section with 4 bidets, 8 urinals, and 20 squatting toilets. There's a seperate shower room with 16 sectioned shower heads and jets coming off the wall in 3-foot intervals, two 4-person jacuzzis, a cooling pool, two sitz baths, and a special mechanized doohickie out back to turn all the waste product into fertilizer for their 20-acre wheatgrass farm.

They don't lock that bathhouse either. But they do lock the doohickie so the 4 year old doesn't fall in by mistake.

Hopes and I really are the same person!!

[FinsterRufus]

Originally Posted by Momma_bear

We only make rules when we need them. We don't make rules just to make them. If we needed to keep the kids focused on school we would add a rule to help them do that. But they are all good students so we haven't needed that rule. Since we don't have a million rules my kids have very few problems complying with the rules we do have.

Oooh, I like this philosophy.

[paganmama80]

Originally Posted by LeavingMassachusetts

The only time I hated the house full was cooking breakfast on the weekends. Dear Lord the food.

My oldests best friend is a girl (has been since they were in diapers) she spent the night a lot too. Even raided my closet and stuff all the time like she was my own daughter.

You let her in your bedroom?

[LeavingMassachusetts]

Originally Posted by paganmama80

You let her in your bedroom?

If she was coming to borrow something or have a girl talk? Sure. Like I said, no police tape or guard dogs.

[Mattie]

Originally Posted by Momma_bear

We only make rules when we need them. We don't make rules just to make them. If we needed to keep the kids focused on school we would add a rule to help them do that. But they are all good students so we haven't needed that rule. Since we don't have a million rules my kids have very few problems complying with the rules we do have.

My kids are all excellent students also, and I think keeping the focus on school during the week drives that home. They could attend school functions/sporting events etc, but just to hang out elsewhere? Nah. They are all very social, so keeping them home during the week allowed them to spend time together, as well as with their parents.

Interesting though, all their friends had the same rule, so it has never been an issue.