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My kids could do sleepovers at the homes of people we knew well when they were about 10. We didn't let them sleep over at homes of people we did not know. My daughter is 14 and she isn't a huge fan of going to other people's houses to sleep. She's done a handful of sleepovers but they're not her favorite thing. She likes having friends sleep over at our house, though, and does it maybe monthly or so. My son is 16 and he doesn't really sleep at friends' houses just for the sake of having a sleepover, but he does travel frequently for his main hobby and sometimes it's with other families who we've known for a few years. More often, other people send their teens with him and my husband (he's self-employed and is more able to take time off to travel than most of these friends' parents), so when that happens, those young men sleep over at our house. He also worked at a day camp about 3 hours away for two weeks this summer and he and a few of the other teen counselors stayed at the director's house (who also has a teenage boy). He had a blast (and the mom/director survived the assault of five teenage boys eating her food and getting into whatever shenanigans they got into, LOL).
Yes, very much a thing. My boys don't really do sleepovers, but my daughter does- as much as possible. I have only let her sleep over if I've met the parents and know where the house is/have been there.
I let my daughter spend the night with one friend and only because both parents are doctors. I really hope she doesn't ask me about sleepovers with any new friends because the answer will be no.
I think they're still a thing, but I don't blame parents who say "no" to sleepovers or only allow kids to spend the night at a house where they know the family extremely well.
I have a friend who stopped allowing her son to do sleepovers because she got tired of dealing with a cranky kid who needed two days re-adjusting from lack of sleep.
Absolutely! My son has a group of friends that do sleepovers a couple of times a month. They've been doing it for years. I love having them over, even though the smell of Mtn Dew, Doritos, and teenage boy is gross. My daughter does sleepovers, but not as often.
Too many kids here run around doing whatever they want while their parents are working. I don't want my daughter hanging out with bad kids or parents.
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