Sleepovers and Youth Sports?

[Anonymous]

Do you let your kids have sleepovers the night before sports games in elementary school?

[Anonymous]

I dont let my elementary kids have sleepovers.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think elementary school sports is any more important than sleepovers.

[Anonymous]

Are we taking rec sports? If so then probably fine depending on the kid. Also depends on the time of the game the next day. My kids need a lot of sleep and they are not at their best after a sleepover so we generally don’t do sleepovers before a game.

[Anonymous]

We stopped sleepovers. Too much hassle

[Anonymous]

No, I would save for days when you have nothing the next day.

[Anonymous]

We sometimes did sleepovers with a bed time which was different then a more party oriented time. This was when someone needed to actually get some sleep. Kids generally respected it as they knew sleepovers would be limited in the future if not.

[Anonymous]

Mine is now finishing HS but he did not do sleepovers the night before games for his travel teams. Even in HS, he makes sure to be home early and be well rested. Some of the kids on his teams over the years have shown up exhausted and it’s hurt the team. When you pay to be on a team of dedicated athletes, it’s annoying when others don’t take it seriously. For rec games, it never mattered. DS made the choice each season that he wanted to put his sport above sleepovers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I dont let my elementary kids have sleepovers.

+1 Parents of young kids now are much more cautious than our own parents were. We know more about the risks, all the things that happen but don't get reported back to mom and dad at pick up.

[Anonymous]

Rec sports are usually just one weekend day, so we schedule sleepovers for the other day.

[Anonymous]

We usually have a game on day and practice one day. I let him have one the night before practice. I let my younger one for rec either night but he goes to bed at like 9pm not 2am

[Anonymous]

I hate sleepovers. We do them sparingly (and choose kids we know to follow directions). Even with all that (and making the kids go to bed around or before midnight) my kids will be dead the next day.

All of my kids value their sports more than sleepovers (and recognize that they are not in good shape after them) so wouldn’t even ask. If they wanted to, I would probably consider it at least once. I’d rather them realize it sucks to feel bad during your sports than me have to tell them

[Anonymous]

Crack me up😁. Elementary school sports???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think elementary school sports is any more important than sleepovers.

+1 I don't choose when other parents decide to have birthday sleepovers. It's more important to me that my kid goes to those parties (which they love), than to be bright eyed and 100% energetic at kiddie soccer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you let your kids have sleepovers the night before sports games in elementary school?

My kid is a college freshman. We did not do sleepovers unless it was with a cousin. Otherwise there’s nothing that requires this to be a thing.