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Bocolatechiscuit · 18/08/2016 13:45

DS, age 10, who has attachment issues and subsequently struggles to make and keep friendships (I've posted about him before), has been invited to his first ever sleepover tonight...yippee! He's super excited and I'm really pleased for him too. There are 6 boys in total and they are having a movie night then sleeping all together, either in a caravan in the garden (!) or in the boy's bedroom. Now my slight concern is that DS has really severe night terrors which are exacerbated by late nights and lack of routine...both of which he will definitely have tonight! They manifest themselves in different ways, from him just shouting out in his sleep to him actually getting up, wandering around quite distressed and being difficult to settle. I desperately don't want this to stop him from being able to be involved, especially as he is so excited to have been included for once, but what do I do? I will talk to the mum of course, but do I ask her to speak to the boys too? I need to avoid it being a big thing or I risk either the boys making a big deal out of it and him becoming excluded again from the group, or if he finds out I'm talking to them about it, I think he could potentially worry about it himself and decide he doesn't want to go either. Advice please-how do I beat make this work for my lovely lad?

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ThePinkOcelot · 18/08/2016 21:46

Ahh bless him. Hope he has a fab time.

TheRealKimmySchmidt63 · 19/08/2016 08:07

Hope he had a good night glad you sent him

Bocolatechiscuit · 19/08/2016 14:39

He's home and had an AMAZING time he says! He's never stopped talking about it ever since he got back. He claims to not have slept till 3am but having just done an hour at a trampolining park he doesn't seem tired enough to me for that to be true! No sleep issues, in fact it was another boy who had to be taken home at 4am with toothache. I sent her a text thanking her again and the reply was 'No problem. He's a lovely little dude'! That'll do me! So pleased I sent him. Thank you all again for the advice.

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AnnaMarlowe · 19/08/2016 18:10

So pleased it went well!!

Littlepeople12345 · 19/08/2016 18:40

So pleased it went well!!

RaspberryOverload · 19/08/2016 19:24

Great, that sounds lovely. Smile

MrsMozart · 19/08/2016 23:37

Lovely update.

paddlingpool · 19/08/2016 23:48

Thanks for your update, it's so worrying being a mum. I'm really glad your little dude had such a great time x

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