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To think that sleepovers should have another name

25 replies

Thisisadumbusername · 01/10/2016 13:19

Nobody sleeps anyway, they just annoy the host parent so much that they won't have them anymoreAngry Then they find someone elses to stay at. Instead of sleepover, i suggest Annoy-a-thon.

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theocat · 01/10/2016 13:22

We just call them stayawakeovers.

eddiemairswife · 01/10/2016 13:26

When I was little it was called 'staying the night with a friend'.

RebelandaStunner · 01/10/2016 13:46

Sleepovers are basically
Jetlag without leaving your house.

Brilliant invention Hmm

susiella · 01/10/2016 14:55

Stayawakerunaboutandscreamovers?

Ethelswith · 01/10/2016 14:57

Lack-of-sleepover

yeOldeTrout · 01/10/2016 14:59

Wake-overs.
But I make them sleep tbh, I am the big bad meanie.

crispandcheesesanwichplease · 01/10/2016 15:29

And this is why I shall never, ever host one! Will happily have all manner of kids at the house during the day but once 8pm comes they just have to go!

chattygranny · 01/10/2016 15:31

I used to call them stay-up-and-get-bad-tempered-overs

FarAwayHills · 01/10/2016 15:31

Drives me nuts - DD is like the she devil the following day.

Seems like going to play/ hang out/ have tea at someone's house is no longer sufficient they now have to stay the night and have a bloody mini break.

WakeoverAngry

chattygranny · 01/10/2016 15:32

Teengirls were the worst - the bitchiness!

KatieB55 · 01/10/2016 16:21

I was the worst mother because I never allowed sleepovers (at ours or anywhere else) during term-time. Getting kids up on a Monday for school after a Saturday night sleepover was just impossible.

AGrinWithoutACat · 01/10/2016 16:39

Am hmming at this thread as I listen to DD and the 3 friends she has round for a 'sleep'over, already hyped and I haven't opened the bags of sugar and E numbers sweets yet!

They will crash about 2 I reckon but will have a fab time Grin

papayasareyum · 01/10/2016 16:43

night parties
scream-a-thons
wake overs
Definitely NOT sleepovers

MumOnTheRunCatchingUp · 01/10/2016 16:52

After a bad experience they are now banned!

Patsy99 · 01/10/2016 16:58

Write-off-Sunday overs?

HelenaJustina · 01/10/2016 17:00

Hosting our first today, but only one guest who I have known her whole life so will be making them sleep!

EnidColeslaw771 · 01/10/2016 17:06

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NeonPinkNails · 01/10/2016 17:08

Like so many other activities sleepovers have now become 'a thing'. As a pp said, we used to just stay at somebody's house now and then, no big deal. But now they have to have popcorn and sweets and fizzy drinks and something special for breakfast the next day - costs a bloody fortune so I suggest Rip-Off-Parents-Overs Confused.

Tissunnyupnorth · 01/10/2016 17:10

Notonmylifeathon
Goawayitsmybednottheloo-athon
Neveragainathon

Shutthefuckupandsleepover

Can you tell I don't like them?

Whathaveilost · 01/10/2016 17:11

No-one-gets-to -sleep-overs

FunkinEll · 01/10/2016 17:12

Hell on earth

MumOnTheRunCatchingUp · 01/10/2016 17:14

Just be cautious ..... you never know who is around at these sleepovers. You have no control over who has access to your kids

itsmine · 01/10/2016 17:14

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Adelie0404 · 01/10/2016 17:23

My daughter thinks it is really "sleepisover"
Ha ha.
Never ever in term time.

yeOldeTrout · 01/10/2016 18:50

I make them sleep, it's not that hard. Lights out, no noise, no more TV allowed. It works ime. But Little darlings never bring toothbrushes. What's with that? Maybe I'm obsessed with teeth.

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