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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We don’t do sleepovers. I don’t owe anyone an explanation as to why. My kids are welcome to attend until 11pm and then they come home to sleep in their own beds. We don’t fill them with fear or paranoia, that is simply our rule and they are all happy, social, well-liked kids. I simply don’t want to deal with sleep deprivation, sickness or even the remote possibility of inappropriate sexual contact—which I know plenty of individuals who have been inappropriately touched. To me the risk isn’t worth it.[/quote]

+1 this is us too. I was inappropriately touched at a sleepover myself. I was forced to sit on the Dad’s lap. To this day I’ll never forget the sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach that I had at that point. Sleepovers are not happening.[/quote]

Me too. I was groped by a Dad across the street with four daughters- third grade while I was in a sleeping bag in my friend’s bonus room. I remember my friend, saying “Maybe she doesn’t want a massage, DAD.”  I never even considered telling anyone about it- this was the 1970s. I really didn’t think about it until I had a daughter that age. I allowed her to have select sleepovers when she was in middle school and could advocate for herself, before that I always encouraged girls to sleep over at our house. It is amazing when you get a group of women together talking- very few became an adult without some sort of sexual assault.[/quote]

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