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to care about sleeping arrangements at sleepover

86 replies

Dromedary · 06/12/2012 03:13

I think I probably am being unreasonable, so have said nothing to the mother in question, but just to check...
My DD, age 7, was invited to a sleepover at another little girl's house. This was fixed about 2 weeks ahead. I know the family reasonably well and it is a single mother all female household. The little girl has bunk beds in her room.
I obviously assumed that she and my DD would be sharing the bunk beds. But apparently the friend spent the night sharing mum's bed in mum's room and the vacant bunk bed was occupied by the ex-partner, who I have never met or heard about and didn't know would be there.
Am I out of order to have felt unhappy about this when my DD mentioned it?

OP posts:
ComradeJing · 06/12/2012 03:17

Let me get this straight...

Your dd slept on a bunk in the same room as her friends mums ex-p whilst her friend and her mum slept together in another room.

Is that right?

Dromedary · 06/12/2012 03:22

That's what DD told me, yes. They have no spare room, which was presumably why he slept there.

OP posts:
Gingerodgers · 06/12/2012 03:51

Just say no to sleepovers at this age, I don't think those sleeping arrangements are at all acceptable.

ripsishere · 06/12/2012 03:54

Shock You are NBU in the slightest.
For all you know ex-p is a lovely, kind man. OTOH, he may not be.

notactuallyme · 06/12/2012 04:02

Do you think that the friend and dd originally started off in the bunks? Then friend joined mum and partner left mum to sleep in friends bed? Still not really ok but better?
(Am posting from ds' teeny toddler bed as both ds and ds2 have decided to go and sleep in my bed. Sigh)

SavoyCabbage · 06/12/2012 04:12

Yanbu. He should have slept anywhere else but in the room where your dd was.

I would have got my dd back in her own bed by hook or by crook as I wouldn't want the guest to be sleeping on her own in a strange house.

ComradeJing · 06/12/2012 05:17

Shock That's so unacceptable. Yadnbu.

StormyWeek · 06/12/2012 06:07

What the fuck???
A strange man shared a bedroom with your 7 year old and you even pause for a moment to question your response????

No way is that appropriate.
Not in any circumstance.
Never let your child stay there again
Tell all the other parents

Absolutely incredible behaviour from the mum and xpartner!

I would go bat shit crazy!

Santasapunkatheart · 06/12/2012 06:14

...good grief....no no no.....YANBU. What on earth was your friend thinking?

honeytea · 06/12/2012 06:45

YANBU there are other options, ex DP could have slept on the sofa, your DD could have slept on a bed made on the floor of the mums room.

ChestyNutsRoastingOnAnOpenFire · 06/12/2012 08:03

YANBU I wouldn't be happy either.

SquishyCinnamonSwirls · 06/12/2012 08:06

YANBU, I'd not be happy either.

whois · 06/12/2012 08:11

If that's actually what happened its well out of order!

fatcuntroller · 06/12/2012 08:13

I wouldn't be at all happy. Are you going to phone the other mother to clarify?

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Tailtwister · 06/12/2012 08:17

Yanbu! Completely unacceptable. I would be having serious words with the mother. There is NO excuse I can think of which could justify what she did.

MardyBra · 06/12/2012 08:17

YANBU. That's totally unacceptable. Was your Dd disturbed in any way when she told you?

valiumredhead · 06/12/2012 08:20

YANBU! Shock

Actually if this DID happen, that ould be the end of sleepovers completely with this friend, and playmates tbh, as that is so way off the mark as far as good judgement goes I wouldn't be able to trust her at all.

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 06/12/2012 08:20

That's really weird kandi wouldn't be happy with that at all!

Normally I'm laid back, but that's just wrong....

When we've done sleepovers, all the children pile in the big room together, no adults in the room obviouslyHmm Thpught that was perfectly oral and is exactly what I would expect when my children goth someone else's.

valiumredhead · 06/12/2012 08:20

play DATES

Doyouthinktheysaurus · 06/12/2012 08:20

FuckBlush Normal, not oral!

TeamBacon · 06/12/2012 08:23

Hmmmm...

So. Are you going to talk to your friend and ask her wtaf she was thinking? Confused

Walkacrossthesand · 06/12/2012 08:23

YANBU at all, OP - that's way out of order. Many years ago, my (then 11 year old) DD went for a sleepover with a newish friend. She found herself sleeping on a sofa in the front room of a strange house because there wasn't a bedroom free & the friends room was 'too small'!! No thought of giving the guest the daughter's room & putting daughter in her familiar front room - or even putting them both in front room ... I was appalled, and DD admitted to having been ' a bit scared' Sad. So, I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask 'where will DD/DS be sleeping' the first time they are invited somewhere...

valiumredhead · 06/12/2012 08:28

If we had a newish friend over ( have done lots of sleepovers) when the parents dropped their child off I would make a point of getting ds to take them up to his room so visiting child could show mum or dad where they would be sleeping.