To think that 3 is a bit young for sleepovers?

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Am I just being neurotic or is this just too young for a sleepover? DD has never slept away from me and dh and I just think she's too young. But apparently her little friends do it (this info from another parent - not dd). What age did yours start?

I don't think I'd send my DS to a mass sleepover at 3 - but he has stayed at his best friends house twice (he's only 2.11 now) in times of need - which I think is quite healthy. We would certainly have his 3 yr old friend over to stay here if DS's bedroom wasnt like the antarctic at night.

yes

far too young.
no way would i allow this, you are not bieng neurotic no.

Yes what?

DS is 4 and other than staying with grandparents or uncle and aunt, he hasn't slept anywhere not with DH or me. Can't imagine him having sleepovers with friends for a while tbh.

Too young I agree. Mine are older and I'm still trying to avoid sleepovers where possible. They seem a relatively new fad. I don't mind tea or picnics and days out with friends but sleepovers...blimey where does it end?

I think it is too young. One of DD's friends last year (recption, age 4) really wanted sleepovers but I still felt DD was too little.

DD is 5 now and has had a couple of sleep overs here and at a friend s- but more for the parents (or my) convenience, not hers - children are DD's friends but also parents are my friends so done more for babysitting reasons than anything else. She's also slept over at grandparent's houses for babysitting reasons, since being about 3.

Still think that DD would be too young to go for a normal sleepover with a school friend at 5y.

Mine have both had sleepovers from age 3. But only with one close friend. Was a great help when DS was 4 and DD had a night in hospital that I knew DS would be happy sleeping at his friends.

I think it's not too young to stay overnight at a friends but maybe too young for a sleepover party with lots of children.

DS has just had his first one at 7.5. He has not wanted to do it before.

I think 3 is too young to really understand they will be away from you all night.

I think 3 is far too young.

i think 3 is way too yound ds is 4.5 and he hasnt slept anywere else apart from in our house or with granparents at3 they are still babies

Shouldn't sleepovers be renamed so as to more accurately describe the reality? An awakeover? An overtired and very badly behaved over? A demonstration of all that is wrong with chilhood in 2007 over. I think you can tell I like them a lot.

childhood

My son was over 3 when he first slept at my inlaws. I hated every minute of it. He loved it.

my kids were always allowed to go on sleepoevers

i never did reciprocate.

ntil their 13th birthdays.

if someone wants one of my kids - F,I,N.E,.

Way too young.

Sleeping at grandparents or other family members is different. They won't be feeding her chocolate marshmallows at 10pm and forcing her to stay up til 2am styling the Island Princess Head - oh and if there are more than two small girls at a sleepover there will be the obligatory friendship woes. "I like your nightdress more than Daisy's. Daisy's is babyish and smells of wee wee. Emma - whose nightdress do you like best? Mine or Daisy's babyish one that smells of wee wee?"

My 3yo goes to sleep at other people's houses, she's fine with it. Her grandparents don't want her but friends and cousins do.

It's only people we know well, and when DP and I want a night out. Why not do it if they actually want to and don't get upset?

I agree Fennel - our DS has surrogate g/parents who often take him for a night partly coz they love it and we do and he does. He's been going since he was under 2.

He's stayed with the friend coz we were going out, and one night when I had to take my niece late to the airport. Again, they all love it.

I think if it is to SLEEP then it is healthy, and shows trust in other adults, and shows a safe bond between parent and child. DS always knows we will collect him, and often doesn't want to come home he's having such a good time!

sleepovers to me mean lots of young girls giggling at a friends house trying on make up and wearing pink pyjamas

a 3 year old staying overnight at a friend's/relative's house is just extended babysitting imo

so you are being a tad neurotic

unless you are meaning a group of 3 year olds staying at someones house, in that case the person needs help

Lots of small girls giggling in a bedroom and not going to sleep is pretty much a regular event here, I have 3 small dds and their cousin who's 5 stays over a lot. They often all share a room. That's before we have any friends staying.

maybe that's why I don't see it as a big deal. My 3yo is used to group nighttime giggles.

oh, don't you lose the will to live Fennel?

I would be screeching GO TO SLEEP and ruining the ambience

I regularly lose the will to live, but if they don't go to sleep we eventually separate them.

I like hearing them all chattering away together in bed, they sound so happy.

My dc often sleep at their grandparents' house (when we are in Italy) and have done so since they were 1, possibly younger, can't remember precisely.
I think ds (5) is now ready to go and sleep at a friend's house. dd is 3 and I'm not sure she'd go, unless she feels 100% comfortable with the mum.