Arghhhh stupid, idea for a party/bloody sleepover.

[DustyOwl]

My DS was 10 on Tuesday. He wanted to "be dropped in the forest with a tent and some friends, so they could have a 2 night adventure."

5 (plus DS) have ended up at a sleepover in our lounge. 2 of them kept talking until 12, so I sat on the stairs until 1, when they all went quiet. Then I heard 2 of them at 5. I am back on the bloody stairs. There is no way I'm sending them home at 9, with 4 hours sleep. They are all back asleep, except one that keeps trying to wake the others up!

I am literally posting this to say "Arggghhhhhh". I will stay on these stairs until 7 if I have to. No more sleepovers, ever. Not until they are 18. Not until they have their own house. Not until hell freezes over. (Until you say anything I do realise this is impossible.)

He shares a birthday with his friend. His friend had a sleepover last week.

I formally apologise to my Mum. The sleepovers might have been amazing when I was a kid. We might still laugh about the stuff that happened, even now. I am so sorry! I'm sorry for the time I woke you up at 3am and "just to let you know, we are going up to the rec to play football." "NO YOU ARE NOT."

For the time I woke my baby sister up at 5am, even though we were in the garden in a tent.

For the time you picked me up at 4am because I had lost my money and I couldn't get a taxi (I wasn't ten by then.)

My children are never, ever going out. They will be home by 7 every night.

We had even considered DC4. I am NOT doing broken nights/no sleep again. DH is getting the snip tomorrow. (He will be getting up at 7 to take over and feed them by the way.)

Rant over. I am sorry for all other parents who have had no sleep tonight, for whatever reason. Hats off to those who do this every night. Sod this for a game of soldiers. (Yet another phrase I have taken from my mum, which amuses my DH.)

I have had 4 hours sleep.

Share your pain. If I don't reply I may even have got some sleep.

Are you serious @Stuckforthefourthtime ??

I expect them to be wrecked after a sleepover and don't make any plans apart from letting them sleep on the sofa!!

Ah yes the stayawakeover :)

The one with yr 6 girls was a particular lowpoint. Yr 5 boys was a doddle in comparison.

Honestly no-one expects them to get any sleep.

Rookie mistake OP. DC never do much sleeping at sleepovers. I’d have gone to bed and left them to it. I never plan to do anything with DD the day after she’s been to sleepover because I expect her to be over tired and ratty. It’s the trade off for a child free evening .

Silly OP, sleepovers aren't for sleeping.

You are a better parent than me. All of DS's friends had sleepover parties for their 10th birthdays. DS was the last of his friends to turn 10 and after seeing the state of the kids (and parents) after the other sleepover I just said no. None of our family cope well at all with not enough sleep, I can't be doing with any of that.

Off topic but I chuckled at the creamier than my knees typo.

@hopeishere of course I'd expect them to be tired - but 2am not 5.56am and still going.

That's not easy to catch up on, it'll impact the rest of the weekend and family - we have multiple DCs so could let one chill in bed or on the sofa all morning but not have an adult home all day so they can rest (then have them up at night, or still tired the next morning). I'd be annoyed.

I made a similar rookie mistake last weekend. Both ds's had previously only had 1 or 2 friends on a sleepover. No problems.

This time I had 8 x 15 year olds, watching the champions league, and 4am Anthony Joshua flight. They had : No sleep at all.
I went to bed at midnight. I slept ok.
The next day we went to an all day football tournament . Ds1 was dead on his feet. He said 'never again'.

But is easy for us to recover from because with only 2 ds's if someone wanted to spend the whole day in bed they could.

and we all went to bed at 7 pm on the Sunday night and got up ready for school and work the next day absolutely fine.

DH was away for the weekend and was impressed with how well I managed.

When my daughter was 10 (I think) I left them to it.

Found out the next day the went to the all night petrol station at 3 am for more snacks and were playing on the swing and climbing frame in the park at 4 am (middle of summer)

No more until they were 15 - but around 15/16 most weekends had half a dozen of them all over the lounge floor - they did generally sleep then - after about 2am

I had that too Hecate! All of ds's mates play football, go to the gym and are Uber fit. And apparently they all went on a 3am run together to the 24 hour garage!!

Unless I can hear my daughter and her mates when in my room with the door closed, I leave them to it. Am I doing it wrong? I don’t get involved unless they’ve been arguing or someone needs a hug. Certainly wouldn’t stay up all night just because they were all awake chatting.