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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD is only 2 YO so this isn’t an issue we’ve encountered yet, but I’m surprised to hear how common strict no sleepover policies are these days! I had sleepovers multiple times a month throughout my childhood in the 90s-2000s! Like one of the PPs posted, so many of my best times with friends were at sleepovers! I understand the safety concerns, etc, but it’s strange to think that my DD may not have the same experience that I did.

How do travel sports work these days? Does each child have their own parent travel to every single game? (When I was a kid, parents took turns chaperoning trips. So one mom would stay with three girls when we traveled somewhere that required an overnight stay.) And I assume that kids are not inviting friends to join them on long weekends away or vacations anymore if people aren’t even doing regular sleepovers.[/quote]
IME one or both parents usually travel, but especially as they’re hitting 15, a couple of kids may be with another family. From the beginning, a lot of the kids will end up piling into one or two rooms that adjoin parents (rooms are always a block).

We still have sleepovers about once a month. I had sleepovers most weekends growing up, and weekend trips or vacations often meant bringing along a friend. I think the change is a combination of people worrying about abuse, kids having more scheduled weekend activities, and parents being more directly engaged. Like our mothers did not play with us. We played with other kids and our moms made sure we were alive and fed, but outside of occasions they were not entertaining us. So sleepovers made sense.[/quote]

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