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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it’s a great thing that your daughter and her friends WANT to hang out at your place. It’s a great way to make sure you know your kid’s friends, can make sure you’re aware of what they are getting up to, etc.

I would rather constantly host sleepovers rather than send my kid to sleep at the home of a random family I might not know that well. [/quote]

Same. Op, my son is a junior in high school, and I work hard to get all his friends to hang out here (day and evenings; we don't do any type of sleepover). I can keep a bit of a better eye on what they are doing. I get to know his friends.

I know it's a lot of work, and expensive. I don't know how often you are hosting, but it's perfectly fine to cut back a bit.

And a few reasons we've never hosted sleepovers:
1) My husband is from another country and has a strong cultural aversion to sleepovers. My son doesn't host and cannot attend.
2) I have an anxious dog who would bark all night.
3) I work 50 hour weeks and my husband is out that much with a long commute. 
4) We used to live in a tiny townhouse that wouldn't accommodate a sleepover.  The basement rec room was the only place big enough, and there is no 2nd exit, so it's a fire hazard for people to sleep down there.[/quote]

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