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What was the worst sleepover your child ever attended?

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BillHadersNewWife · 22/01/2023 12:56

Mine was DD2. She was about 7 and our neighbour who we thought we knew well...we'd had dinners and been social as families and the dds loved each other...they invited dd to sleepover. We lived on rhe edge of a big golf course...all our gardens backed onto it.

Well DH would always walk our dog on the golf course at night and he tended to stick close to the edges, so near all the ends of the gardens. But lots of trees made it quite spooky.
He set off about 10.00pm to walk the dog and as he approached the area of the course which was near the neighbours garden, he heard the unmistakable sound of DDs sad little voice calling out "Lucy's Mum! Lucy's Mum!"

He immediately hopped the fence and followed the voice to find dd and her friend had been allowed to sleep alone in this rickety old shed of a "playhouse " and dd was scared. It wasn't fit to sleep in and fullbof spiders etc.

The friend was totally zonked and DD had been unable to bring herself to walk the length of the garden to go in the house to find the Mum.

Dh brought her home immediately and we tried to phone the mum to tell her we'd taken dd back but she didn't pick up.

We were so annoyed. What about you?

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Cheekyandfreaky · 22/01/2023 12:58

That’s awful! What did she say afterwards?

TheMadGardener · 07/04/2023 20:37

When we lived in East London, DD1 was about 9 or 10. She went for a sleepover with friend who lived about 4 streets away. She and friend's family got woken up at dawn by the noise as the police raided the house next door, smashed down the front door, etc, to arrest the NDN's son and dismantle his cannabis farm. Massive crashing noises, police cars everywhere apparently. DH and I were a bit 😯 but DD1 found it highly entertaining apparently.

Vermin · 07/04/2023 20:47

When DD (y4) called from friend’s house to ask to be collected from a big group sleepover. Got there to find the only adults were both pissed and behaving erratically - it was excellent judgement on her part. The parent phoned me later to say I needed to get her to a therapist to stop her being so clingy because she couldn’t cope with a sleepover.

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tillytoodles1 · 07/04/2023 20:56

My daughter who was10, went for a sleep over at her friend's house four doors away. I waved her off at the end of the drive and her friends mum stood waiting for her. After about 5 minutes she came home in tears because she missed me and her dad.

Eggseggseverywhere · 07/04/2023 20:59

Dd's were supposed to be sleeping out at new friend's house (2 sisters).

They heard one of the girls being punched by the dm and rang me to go collect them..
I reported them to school safeguarding team. Ss did visit and sadly dd's weren't allowed to hang out with them anymore..

liveforsummer · 07/04/2023 21:10

What happened when they woke to find dd missing? 😳. Not really got any, personally have stopped hosting them though as not up for dc missing their parents at 2am and had a couple of those in a row 😆

pickledandpuzzled · 07/04/2023 21:17

DS went to one with boys a couple of years older. We had a chat before he went about various strategies if he was uncomfortable. The mum was a good friend, but I knew she was going out for an hour.

He told me all about it the next day- going through the mum's bedside table, blowing up the condoms. I think he mentioned her sex toys, and said he was playing on his DS on his own, because they were watching porn.

Goldenbear · 07/04/2023 21:45

DS went for his first sleepover at 7 which I'm hindsight was way too young. The parents let them watch a recent (at the time) James Bond film, it starts with a torture scene, until 2am and DS kept having nightmares followong his return from the sleepover.

Angebot · 07/04/2023 21:51

Mine went round to a sleepover in the afternoon and in the morning she telephoned me asking if I would bring breakfast round as they didn't have any and she hadn't eaten since she'd left mine.

Campervangirl · 07/04/2023 22:04

Dd was about 9, went to a sleepover, the other DM was actually a teacher at Dd's school.
Got a phone call to collect dd as apparently dd was hysterical and no-one could calm her.
Turns out the dm had alopecia and her wig was on a mannequin head on her dressing table, dd saw it and assumed the dm/teacher had had her head cut off 🤣
Found out about the alopecia the next day

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 07/04/2023 22:52

My daughters have been fine so far but I had one at the age of 11 that scared the bejeezus out of me! My friends mum let us watch the 1989 movie Blades which was about a killer lawnmower! We then slept in a tent in her garden!

Her 18 year old brother rocked up at 1am on the driveway and the revving of the bike sounded like a lawnmower! I was terrified and didn't sleep a wink.

Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes · 07/04/2023 22:52

Just Googled the poster for it and it's awful

goodkidsmaadhouse · 07/04/2023 23:23

@Neverplayleapfrogwithmrpipes Gosh that
made me burst out laughing as we were always watching completely inappropriate films at sleepovers. My Mum was dead and my Dad thought it was totally fine to let a bunch of 10 year old girls choose whatever 18 rated horrors they wanted from the video shop. That is exactly the sort of thing we would’ve gone for 😂

Not had any bad sleepover experiences for my own kids yet touch wood!

Frightenedbunny · 07/04/2023 23:44

When my sis in law invited my ds over for a sleepover. My Ds was about 5 years old. She literally had her there for 10 minutes before turning up back at ours with her saying she wouldn’t settle. She’s never invited her again since! She has no children of her own and just couldn’t cope with a child.

clpsmum · 08/04/2023 00:00

Ing 10yr old dc went for a sleepover and came home at 1:30am and knocked me up. The parents didn't even know he'd left!

LaviniasBigBloomers · 08/04/2023 00:03

I think the one where DS7 vommed in someone else's sleeping bag should be up there... I was off on a girls' weekend somewhere fab and the host mum was really not very happy...

bellsandwhistles333 · 08/04/2023 00:14

We hosted my step sons 10th birthday sleepover, one lad got dropped off at 11.15am (party wasn't till 2pm)
Then pick up was arranged for anything between 9-19.30am we sorted breakfast for everyone. Same poor kid us left and mums phone is off.. she finally rocks up at half 3 in the afternoon. I had texted about an hour before saying if we don't hear I'm going to assume there had been an accident or emergency and would have to contact services for assistance.
Absolutely joke zero apologies just a mumble about the time getting away from her.

Beesandhoney123 · 07/05/2023 09:35

The one where the primary age friend cried at bedtime - turned out her df had left that day and on calling her dm, discovered yes it was true, and her dm didn't want to deal with the tears. I was beyond furious at how callous the dm was.

FrenchandSaunders · 07/05/2023 09:39

DD was about 13 and went to a new friends birthday sleepover.

Me and DH went out for dinner and driving home saw this group of kids on a street corner …. I thought they seemed a bit young to be out so late (midnight).

As we passed them we realised it was DD, her friends and a couple of lads. They had climbed out the skylight to meet them. Parents asleep and had no idea. Not their fault to be fair.

feralunderclass · 07/05/2023 09:54

My dd went to a friend's birthday sleepover, she was 8 at the time. 4 others were invited. Dd was very excited as this family had a lovely house with lots of pets and parents were laid back. I knew the mum socially, she was very nice.
The next day I went to pick her up and I could tell the second I saw her that she was upset. In the car she broke down and said that at 7pm it was announced it was bedtime and the whole family slept in with the DPs and the invited girls were designated a bedroom and had to sleep there (on their own) with the door closed. Not exactly the fun sleepover she'd been envisaging!
A friend of mine had a dd who was friends with a girl who was an only child with an older and very protective, alpha type mum. This girl was invited for a sleepover. When she arrived the mum said she would be staying over too 🤔. Friend was mortified and felt she couldn't say no. The dominant mum wouldn't let the girls play alone because her daughter "was susceptible to being bullied". Friend said the mum spent the whole evening bullying her daughter into doing whatever her daughter wanted, which her daughter did. At around 10pm friends daughter said she wanted to sleep (ie she was bored of being told what to do) and dominant mum blew a gasket, shouting that friends daughter was treating her daughter like sh*t and stormed upstairs and slammed bedroom door. She emerged in the morning saying her daughter had been crying the whole night due to the bad treatment and that she wouldn't be back for another sleepover again!

YouJustDoYou · 07/05/2023 09:58

Not my kids but my friend, she was about 11 or 12 at the time, some boys same age were also invited to the sleep over and they sexually assaulted her. Police were called. It was awful.

Mouldyfoodhelp · 07/05/2023 10:07

No children stories here. But personally my worst was sleeping over at my sisters boyfriends house as he had brothers and sisters. It was only meant to be one night but kept being extended to over a week and they wouldn't let me speak to my parents bar like 1-2 minutes every other day and was telling my parents I kept asking to stay longer. I woke up one night with one of the brothers strangling me with a tie so I had no choice but to attack him to try and get him to stop he started screaming. I was put into another room for the rest of the night and was able to go home the next day.

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