Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:50
Subject: Re:First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Your kid is probably already nervous about what their friends will think of you and your partner, please don't give them more reasons to be!
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:49
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Anonymous wrote:DC has their first sleepover with friends. How do I mess with them in a safe but annoying and funny way?
Don't do this! It will be your kids last sleepover. It's about the kids. Don't try to make yourself the center if attention. Don't know what it is with all the pranks. Just let them be.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:48
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
1000% don't. And maybe reflect why you think this is ok when it's absolutely not
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:47
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Omg DO NOT do this. Yikes.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:47
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Ugh, please don’t be this parent.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:45
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Anonymous wrote:I know in some families this was part of the social lubricant of how things worked. It was DEFINITELY not in mine and I would be really freaked out if someone's mom or dad was playing tricks on us.
Pranks often have this serious "ick" factor to them where it feels like a power play. Not always, but sometimes. And it's a tricky line to walk.
This. I'd probably call my parents and ask to be taken home. Kids this age are not into being pranked by adults. Is any age, really?
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:43
Subject: Re:First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Please don't.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:42
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Yeah I wouldn’t do this. My dad used to tease me and my friends about how bad the “music these days” was, but that was about as far as my parents ever went with being silly around us. Otherwise they stuck to providing snacks and keeping an ear out for any trouble, which was greatly appreciated.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:41
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
WTH! You're not a middle schooler. Have some boundaries. Prank your DH if you're desperate for fun.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:40
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
I know in some families this was part of the social lubricant of how things worked. It was DEFINITELY not in mine and I would be really freaked out if someone's mom or dad was playing tricks on us.
Pranks often have this serious "ick" factor to them where it feels like a power play. Not always, but sometimes. And it's a tricky line to walk.
Pranks often have this serious "ick" factor to them where it feels like a power play. Not always, but sometimes. And it's a tricky line to walk.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:39
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Anonymous wrote:DC has their first sleepover with friends. How do I mess with them in a safe but annoying and funny way?
Ha! I assume you’re joking! Otherwise your sense of humor and sense of judgment is waaaay off.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:37
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
Omg. Please don’t do this.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:32
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
How old are the kids?
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:31
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
You don't. You should not insert yourself into the sleepover this way. If the kids want to prank each other, they will. You are not one of the kids.
Anonymous
05/19/2023 13:29
Subject: First sleepover, need safe ways to prank/embarrass kids
DC has their first sleepover with friends. How do I mess with them in a safe but annoying and funny way?