Polite way to decline sleepovers

[Anonymous]

Wow, I feel like 7 is really young. I have a 7 year old who has not been invited to a sleepover yet. I don't have a "never" stance but I don't think I'd go for it right now unless I knew the family very very well.

[Anonymous]

My kid both hosts and attends sleepovers, and there are always one or two kids picked up before bedtime. Not a big deal at all, no one bats an eye.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, I feel like 7 is really young. I have a 7 year old who has not been invited to a sleepover yet. I don't have a "never" stance but I don't think I'd go for it right now unless I knew the family very very well.

Agree. I wouldn't do sleepovers at 7. Maybe 9 at the earliest

[Anonymous]

Fwiw seven feels young to me. An alternative to the good advice above might be, “Larla isn’t ready for sleepovers yet so call when you know a break is coming in the fun and I’ll come get her.”

I don’t want to tell you that you don’t know your own boundaries but there could also be differences between being seven or nine or whatever and being invited to a sleep over and then being 13 and staying over at your best friends house after a soccer game. I lean against sleep overs but there are situations where I would be more open minded. Just food for thought

[Anonymous]

Must we overthink everything? I was also not a fan of sending my young kid to a virtual stranger's house to spend the night and would just politely say "he doesn't do sleepovers." No one ever pushed me on it. But if they did I would totally ignore them. You don't owe them an explanation.