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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's so funny that you mention that, because my 12 year old DD just went to a sleepover this weekend & we had the exact same concerns.  She too sucks her thumb in her sleep (sometimes as she's falling asleep too) & has a blanket for comfort.

The sleepover this past weekend was a bigger crowd & not just the girls she's been best friends with & have never judged her.  I tried giving her tips & went as far as to tell her to try sleep facing the wall (yeah right, fat chance of that... she's like a ninja when she sleeps & is all over the place).

When she came home she told me that it was no big deal!
She said every single girl there had some kind of lovey (either a blanket, a stuffed animal, etc).  As far as the thumb sucking, she said a couple of the other girls did it in their sleep too & she said the ones that didn't, didn't even care.

Most kids start going to sleepovers in middle school anyway & they're just becoming comfortable with sleeping somewhere other than home.  Even the most seasoned kid at a sleepover still can get nervous, so that's why they all bring something that smells like home or reminds them of home, or just something to snuggle with.  She said out of the 15 girls there, they all had something from home & some even brought 2 or 3 things.

I know that at this age they're much closer to becomes teens than they are being single digit ages again, however every once & a while there are certain things that remind us that they are still our little babies & this to me is one of them.  [/quote]

Most have sleepovers beginning in elementary school.[/quote]

I'm not the PP, but my daughters didn't start going to "real" sleepovers like the PP is talking about (15 girls) until middle school either.  Sure, they'd have a sleepover with a friend or two in elementary school, but that's not what she was describing.[/quote]

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