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[quote=Anonymous]OP here and it's possible I place a higher value on sleep than a lot of people. Possibly because it's been obvious since she was a baby how much DD needs sleep.

But sleep is food for your brain. And healthy sleep habits are healthy life habits. So I don't think it's OK for middle school kids to not get any sleep at all, not even for a night. To me that's like eating nothing but junk food for an entire day. And it is dangerous. Loss of sleep impairs judgment, slows reaction time, weakens immune system. So just like there is a risk to not wearing a seatbelt (albeit small) there is also a risk to not getting proper rest.

It does also set a precedent. Some of these kids will be regularly pulling all nighters in HS or college as well. Some of your probably think that's fine, but I don't want to encourage that.

I'm not totally insane, I get the FUN part of a sleepover means staying up later than usual. But DD is usually in bed by 9:30, so staying up until midnight is pretty late for her. And when I was a kid, I remember us staying up late at a sleepover but then actually sleeping.

And to circle back to my original question, what caught me off guard is that just this year this odd transition happened from the scenario where she got 6 hours at a sleepover to the one where she gets maybe 2. And that's a big difference.[/quote]

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