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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to sleepovers all the time my entire childhood through high school. We didn’t have phones, internet, and were limited to whatever basic cable or VHS tapes provided for entertainment.

But today’s landscape is so different.  Kids have cell phones, internet access, endless steaming of every type of content on smart TV. I don’t know what other families are enforcing regarding electronics and content. Plus not (especially with girls) gender and sexuality cannot be assumed.  Lots of kids are claiming to be gay/bi/trans by middle school.  There has definitely been instances I am aware of through friends of middle/high school girls pressuring other girls to sexually experiment.

We stopped sleepovers in middle school.  You can’t take back the mental impact of a sexual experience that happens before you are ready and with the same gender you thought was your friend when maybe that isn’t how you feel but you didn’t have the tools to say no.  It can be traumatic and confusing [/quote]

+100. The landscape has changed, parenting needs to as well. [/quote]
I don’t know if the landscape has changed that much, but I watched p*rn for the first time at a sleepover (and almost each subsequent one) beginning second grade. There was virtually zero parental oversight past 10 pm which is incidentally the time at which sexual content streams everywhere in media.[/quote]

Are you male or female?[/quote]

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