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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You are being a little silly. My girls have friends sleep over almost every weekend. And they have two older teen brothers. It seems like we always have a house full of kids. I couldn't have provided you a list of who was sleeping over because I usually didn't even know. Teenage boys don't have "sleepovers"....they just "crash" at whatever house has the best food. [/quote]

A parent who actually doesn't even know who is sleeping over at their own house? PP, you sound desperate to be considered the "cool parent". You could be harboring a kid who is using your lax supervision to engage in high risk behavior. My BIL (a really great, loving dad) spent the last year of his DS life trying to keep him from running away (just disappearing, going AWOL) over to his BF's house. The parent's house was well known as the party house--they were the cool parents who allowed drinking, girls to come over, etc. BIL son drank and smoked dope his entire senior year--he would come home for a few weeks and then disappear to the friend's house for days. He failed to graduate from HS and has yet to go back for his GED. My BIL is a respected, successful research scientist--his wife is a SAHM--they live in an upscale DC suburb. It would make me so angry to hear of this other family where all the boys "crashed". Parents like you make it nearly impossible to enforce any kind of reasonable standard of behavior with teens. Are you just so rich and bored in some huge mansion that you don't care? I mean, come on, how do you not know who is sleeping in your house?[/quote]

You and the pp need some reading comprehension and to back up your judgment truck. That poster DID NOT say the she didn't know the kids who were staying at her house, but that she didn't know AHEAD of time who would be staying-- that often the "sleepovers" with her boys were impromptu events.

But nice way to go on a personal attack with the wrong Information. Personally, I would rather take my chances with that poster than a dolt like you--I'm not sure I would want my kid around yor idiocy and poison.[/quote]

THANK YOU!  We have five kids.  Somehow I've managed to get three of the five through high school and into college (all on academic scholarships) without any major crisis.  I'll happily put my parenting record up against anyone's.

Of course I know who ends up sleeping at my house.  But it is pretty common for my kids to come in from a movie, football game,...whatever...with friends.  It gets late and they end up spending the night.

Also, to the PP who referenced the FBI Agent's dire warning (yes I am rolling my eyes because you are completely making it up) - My DH is an FBI Agent who spent two years working on Innocent Images (horrible internet child sexual abuse cases).  He knows all too well that terrible things can happen to kids.  However, we choose not to live our lives in fear.  Our daughters spend the night with their friends regularly.  One of my girls spent last night night with a friend. And *GASP** her older brother is home from college for the holidays. She's not home yet.  Maybe I should alert the authorities.  And my youngest had a friend spend the night last night despite the fact that my 19 year old son is home as well.  I didn't clear it with mom.  I'm definitely going to tell her about this thread when I see her in a couple of hours.  We'll get a good laugh out of the paranoid behavior of some of you.  And you wonder why your kids are so screwed up....[/quote]

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