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[quote=Anonymous]Didn't grow up doing sleepovers, so that's just not been part of our upbringing.  Maybe that's cultural, because no one really went over to their friends' house to hang out at night.

We've been saying no to DD's sleepovers (see above), because we don't really find it necessary.  She was really upset about it for a while, until we hosted a sleepover with a friend (the friend kind of announced that she wanted to sleep over, her parents were fine with that, and DD was ecstatic).  After that night, she said she said she didn't want any more sleepovers.

She always has a hard time falling asleep, so I normally let her read until she does, but her friend fell asleep immediately, and she couldn't turn the light on.  Friend talks in her sleep, and thrashes about, which woke her up (and scared her), and then she couldn't go back to sleep.  She ended up in bed with us.  Friend is an early bird and woke up before DD was ready to, so she was tired and sleepy the next day.

She is open to what a friend of mine calls a 'sleep under'.  Kids come in PJs, they do popcorn, movies, hang out until late at night, and then everyone goes home.  [/quote]

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