How many kids for a sleepover

Of course there are special circumstances where children may need to stay at a friend's, neighbor's, or relative's home for the night. In that case, it's up to you as a parent to make that decision. To best protect your child, sleepovers should only happen in such special circumstances or with close relatives. You know your family better than anyone else, and you probably trust them more than anyone else.

Still, you will have reservations, family or not. When special circumstances do arise, make sure your children understands why this is an exception to the "no sleepover" rule. As parents, it is up to you to ultimately decide what is best for your children. You may decide to let your children have sleepovers with certain rules. This is completely okay. Other parents may choose to allow their kids have "late-nights" or "late-overs" which lets their kids stay for the popcorn and movie, but leave when everyone else is going to sleep.

If the group is having breakfast the next morning, let your children come back over. This way, your child sleeps in a much safer environment while still participating in activities. Sleepovers are generally a bad idea.

It's ultimately up to you and your spouse to decide what is best for your children. There are good, wholesome alternatives to sleepovers that still allow your children to have fun while keeping them safe.

More often than not, sleepovers just end up being the stuff of nightmares. Groups of 3 or more when my DD is at her tiredest point do not mix well at all. Finally, I think she has come to terms with herself, and is just fine doing fewer sleepovers than her peers. She's just more of a morning person than a night owl.

Sometimes, she'll just have one good friend over for a movie and to spend the night, but it is a friend who also does not like to try to stay up all night, and it works out much better.

I am assuming you mean one girlfriend over not a party. I do think 3 times a week is to much but once a week during the summer not a big deal. I never really had hard fast rules about how often, but I did have a few rules that were never negotiable. First and most important, applied to all situations, not just sleepovers, you must ask privately, if you asked in front of the other child or parents, it was an automatic NO. Absolutely no exceptions; for several reasons, mostly so that I was not manipulated into something I wasn't comfortable with, but it was also a safety net for the kids.

If it was something they were being pressured into, they knew if they asked in front of the other child, they were off the hook, that didn't happen often, but my kids always knew that safety net was there for them. They could never sleep over unless we personally knew the parents and had personally visited thier home. I have to admit, our house was usually the 'go to' house and I preferred that, I almost alwasy knew where my kids were and what they were doing, 'cause they were home.

I couldn't put a price tag on that. I didn't worry about other families reciprocating, because I didn't mind the kids all being at our house. But growing up, my house was like that, so it seemed natural to me for my kids to bring everyone to our house. We have some really great memories now of all those years of kids thru our front door, they were almost always very respectful, most of them still call us Mom and Dad. Enjoy these years, all to soon they will be over, and you will move on to the next season of life, which is good in different ways, but these are really fun years.

Sleepovers are wonderful. You just need boundaries. Keep to the nightime schedule. If bedtime is 8 then they should have lights out at 8. However, with little girls know that they will stay awake for a while. I have read several responses here about not letting their kids have sleepovers.

I never let my kids spend the night over someone's house that I didn't know well but I believe that we still need to let our kids be kids. Good luck and enjoy! My daughter is 13 and we seem to always ahve someone over at our house. Since she is an only child it is nice as she has someone to entertain her.

However, there are a few friends that I can only stand to be around every so often. So, we have a friends list that mom says can come over any time and a friends list that needs prior approval before coming over. Also, we have some rules about meals and stuff like that. I think it is a personal preference and for each mom it is going to be different.

I am a single mom with only one child so having someone over takes some of the entertaining pressure off of me. For married families with more than one child, it may be more difficult to have have extras around all the time. We did not allow sleepovers until middle school and then only one per year. And for that one, they slept outside in a tent. Actually, they don't sleep at sleepovers and they are cranky and whiny the next day.

I hate them. As for reciprocating - I don't like my daughter to do sleepovers unless I know the family very very well. And even then, I'd rather not. Our kids go away to camp and have since they were in 4th and 6th grade. That takes care of their "sleepovers" as far as I'm concerned. My children are 8yo and 4yo and haven't asked for any sleepovers yet. However, as a child I used to attend them somewhat regularly.

I ran around with a group of about 8 girls well, 7 plus me. Whenever one of us had a birthday, we had a sleepover starting in about 6th or 7th grade. We arrived Friday late afternoon. We had some sort of supper, often pizza or subs. Then we watched movies VHS at the time lol until 11pm or midnight.

Then we slept in late, ate a late breakfast, and went home by lunchtime on Saturday. Our families pretty much knew us all well; we traveled in the same pack up through graduation. We called each other's parents "Mom" and "Dad. We kept ourselves entertained, and parents just provided movies, supper, and breakfast. If my son had his way, he would sleep over every night of every week.

I am not about the "up all night" and cannot reciprocate because we live with my mother. I make it very clear when my son sleeps over that our home situation does not allow us to reciprocate, "Are you okay with my son staying? I need to make sure my son is sleeping because he is a bear to deal with the next day.

But for a treat every few months, why not? What if you said every other week or every third week over the summer, once every 6 or 8 weeks during the school year? Seemed like I seldom went to any til highschool, but my sons seemed to have lots of them. Remember, sleepovers are a fun experience for children and a slight headache might be worth your child's happiness. Behavior Problems. Classroom-Student Behavior. Extracurricular Activities. Peer Pressure.

Positive Discipline. Sibling Rivalry. Sleepover Tips for Parents Just remember the more kids your child has at her sleepover, the harder it is going to be for you to get them and you to sleep. Keep these tips in mind when planning your sleepover: House size. If your house is so small, you can barely fit your family in it, you might want to keep the sleepover size to one or two kids at the most. Sleeping arrangements. You need to discuss with your child where her friends will be sleeping.