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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Ugh. This is what I was afraid of. I probably wouldn't care as much if my kid could hang with it, but she really can't. She's never been able to cope on no sleep, from infancy on. I don't want to not allow sleepovers, but the no sleep thing is simply so much worse for her than it appears to be for her friends, I really don't know how to handle it.

It seems like a courtesy to me that parents could at least make sure the kids get SOME sleep, but it seems I'm an outlier here.[/quote]

If you don’t know what the amount of sleep is, you’re presumably not hosting. If not, please reciprocate. Either way, parents don’t need to make sure they get some sleep as a courtesy. Makes no sense. [/quote]

A) We do host and I enforce a midnight lights out.

B) I think it's a courtesy to kids who actually need sleep because it's a lot to ask of a kid to try to get their friends to be quiet so they can sleep. So in the same way I wouldn't have kids over for dinner and serve only ice cream, I don't host sleepovers and let the children not sleep at all. I do let them stay up several hours past when we normally would sleep.

But I get how if you have a child who can take a nap the next day and be fine you really might not get this. DD literally has 50/50 odds after a sleepover with no sleep of getting sick within the next 7 days and missing 1-2 days of school. She really needs to get at least some sleep every night. And I'm not asking for 8 hours. 6 was fine. But all of a sudden now it's 2.[/quote]

My kid will almost always vomit after a night like that. The last 2 times I stayed up and picked her up at midnight [/quote]

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