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[quote=Anonymous]My mom is trying to manipulate our child into spending the night, and I'm a little annoyed.

Let me preface by saying that our child spent the night with my parents six times over this past summer, and we visited with them on top of that. We saw them in some capacity almost every week. For obvious reasons, it is harder during the school year. My mom got upset last week because she hasn't had a sleepover since school started. I told her she probably won't until a break in school, because for one, my mom won't follow bedtime rules, and it takes a couple days for our child to bounce back (she still requires a lot of sleep - we have to follow a pretty strict bedtime schedule on weekends.) Secondly, we just have a lot going on during the school year. I explained all of this to my mom this weekend. We have a Professional Development day in November, and she is more than welcome to have her overnight then.

Well, we saw them for dinner this weekend. My daughter today, on the way to SACC told me that, on Saturday, my mom pulled her into a room and begged her to tell us she wanted a sleepover, because SHE really wants a sleepover soon.

I'm not sure how to handle this one. Part of me wants to say something like, "Stop manipulating our child buy guilt tripping her!" And another part wants me to just ignore her. [/quote]

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