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Anonymous wrote:I remember staying up all night at my friends house. We were quiet though and if parents checked on us we acted like we were asleep. I haven’t hosted any sleepovers yet for my kids but I think that’s just what happens. My kids been to only one and the mom told me,” they were up giggling past 11.” I wasn’t mad, that’s just what happens at a sleepover, otherwise just end the party by 9 and everyone can go home.

Up past 11 = normal
Up all night = not normal and extremely unhealthy

How is up all night on a one time occasion, when the kid will be home and asleep by 10 am the following morning extremely unhealthy? I wouldn’t love this but it is what it is.

When my DD was 7, she had 7 kids over for a sleepover. Sleeping bags on the living room floor. At midnight, I moved into the room on the sofa until they fell asleep.

Anonymous wrote:I remember staying up all night at my friends house. We were quiet though and if parents checked on us we acted like we were asleep. I haven’t hosted any sleepovers yet for my kids but I think that’s just what happens. My kids been to only one and the mom told me,” they were up giggling past 11.” I wasn’t mad, that’s just what happens at a sleepover, otherwise just end the party by 9 and everyone can go home.

Up past 11 = normal
Up all night = not normal and extremely unhealthy

Anonymous wrote:Were any of you uptight Mommies EVER fun kids? Who really cares. It is one freaking night. Stop micromanaging your kids. They are making life long memories and your crappy mean reactions to their fun memories will be scarred into their memories too.

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Were any of you uptight Mommies EVER fun kids? Who really cares. It is one freaking night. Stop micromanaging your kids. They are making life long memories and your crappy mean reactions to their fun memories will be scarred into their memories too.

I remember staying up all night at my friends house. We were quiet though and if parents checked on us we acted like we were asleep. I haven’t hosted any sleepovers yet for my kids but I think that’s just what happens. My kids been to only one and the mom told me,” they were up giggling past 11.” I wasn’t mad, that’s just what happens at a sleepover, otherwise just end the party by 9 and everyone can go home.

It’s one night. It’s just fun. There are way other things in life to care about. Don’t let your child go to another sleepover ever again.

Anonymous wrote:If you host a sleepover party (not just one kid) do you enforce a bedtime? If so, what time for what ages? My 10yo daughter attended a party last night where they went to bed at....never. I was surprised and question that judgement. Am I out of it or is this kind of weird?

YOLO OP . - time to unclench.

I am trying to understand why you’re saying “never again”. If the kid was cranky the next day, that could happen with a midnight bedtime. I get that YOU wouldn’t have done this but what do bad about another family doing this?

1 am latest for us.

You sound really rigid. It's one night, what's the big deal? I also seriously doubt they were up all night but they are either saying it to sound cool or they just felt like it was all night. DS' two best friends recently spent the night and spent breakfast saying how they were "up all night" and "could you believe they didn't sleep at all?!". One kid was asleep by 11 and DS and the other were out by 1145. Quiet time and staying in the bedroom is enforced. Bed time is not. We host sleepovers fairly frequently and no one has made it up past 1.

^ I mean 2:30 am of course.