Hosting our first sleepover - what time is reasonable to ask for quiet ?

[HostesswiththeMostess]

DD is 6 and she’s having one friend to stay for her birthday tomorrow .

I’d like them to have fun but I don’t want to send the other child home the next day grouchy and dog tired .

I was planning pizza and a movie around 6.30pm .

What time should I ask for lights out and for quiet ?

Or should I just let them stay up as long as they like ?

I have another DC so I need to think of her getting to sleep too

Honestly? At 6 I’d put them to sleep in seperate rooms.

Lights out after the movie, then give them an hour to chat. If you hear them getting hyper, cut the chat short. Good luck!

Movie should finish around 8:30pm - so no chat after 9:30pm?

I feel mean as it’s a sleepover and dd wants to stay up all night but in reality I don’t want two grumpy DC the next day .

I'd pretend it was much later than it was- change any clocks. Let them have a "midnight feast" or whatever and have them asleep for 10?

You need to play the part

At 6 we did bed at 8pm and quiet at 9pm.

We had a bigger sleepover at 7 and had everyone in bed by 8.30, told them to be quiet at 9.30 and dp Sat at the top of the stairs saying shh at 10.

I'd be saying ssh by 9. Dd had one for her 12th and I had them down by 11.

Good luck

Separate rooms??

I would say after the movie quiet time maybe some colouring in ....then change the clocks was a great idea and let them have a midnight feast (not sugary will have them like loons) with a warm milk and lights out at 10pm.

Separate rooms is kind of not the point of a sleepover.

Sorry just want to jump in and say I think @BeautifulPossibilities is an absolute genius with the changing clocks idea! Definitely using that for future sleepovers - my DD is only 1

Can six year olds tell the time? Mine couldn’t.