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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If someone comes in the backyard and takes the kids, would you know if you are on the couch in the house?  Would you know if you were in a tent next to them?[/quote]

[Not OP]: First, I'm laughing at myself for taking this question seriously and actually answering you. But ...
 
Yes. I'm the PP who has hosted a camp out like this for years, and I do "sleep" on the couch with the window open. The reality of hosting this is that you don't get much sleep. You sleep on "high alert" like when your baby has croup. Also, gate latches are loud in the middle of the night and hinges creak. In the silence of night, yes, I can hear the tent zipper when a kid gets up to use the bathroom in the house or to sneak attack the kids in the other tent (we usually have two). I can even hear a kid roll over in a sleeping bag -- you know that scratchy nylon sound? I can hear them whispering.  I can hear the crinkle of the wrapper of the forbidden midnight snacks (just like real camping, no food allowed in the tent). These are all things I actually did hear and (when needed) respond to over the years.

Now, I suppose if a ninja bypassed our home security cameras, silently jumped the 7-foot fence and landed like a cat, knew how to cut the tent without making the noise of ripping through nylon -- then maybe I wouldn't hear it. But that anxiety-induced, imaginary person would have been planning this target for a while (possible longer than we planned the sleep out, lol), would have been hell-bent on the crime, and could easily have broken into the house in spite of home security anyway. In any case, a genuinely low probability, the risk of which could never outweigh the value of the childhood adventure of sleeping in the backyard.
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