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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate sleepovers.

But if you plan on doing them, I would rather you talk to your daughter about YELLING if someone inappropriately touches her. Most assaults in that context happen when the child is too scared or embarrassed to make a scene.
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Yes - and give her a phone and tell her to call or text you if there are any issues. Have a talk about inappropriate behavior first. 
Let her go, and make sure to stay around for a half hour is so at the house before you leave? Bring over some appetizers and have the Mom show you around the house some? You could tell her that this is DD’s first sleepover and you’d like to make sure that she will be comfortable?

You should let her go to sleepovers soon - she’s almost past the age entirely![/quote]

Interesting the PPs who talk about kids having a phone.  When I have tweens/teens over I collect the cell phones.  I show everyone where the home phones are and tell them they are welcome to use the home phone if they need to make a call, or to come and ask for their phones.  I'm far more concerned about cyber bullying and sexting with this group.  If someone is worried that their parents will need to contact them, we text the parents the home phone number and they can call that if they need to get in touch.  Most parents and kids are okay with our policy.  I understand that this is a leap of faith/trust for some,  but most parents recognize the reason we collect the phones and understand the reasoning behind it.  They are all comfortable calling our house phone and understand it is available for their girls to call them if necessary.  Once a parent was not comfortable with the phones being collected and using the house phone, that child did not spend the night.  I found out later that she sent some pretty mean texts to my DD from a future sleep over that my DD was not involved in, it made me feel like we made the right decision sticking to our house rules.

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