DD is 8.
She has not been to a sleepover yet (wets the bed ,, wears pull-ups ,, whole other topic) but has had friends over to sleep at ours before (easier to hide it at home).
She has invited a friend to a sleepover who we have not had over before. We know the friend well, they have been friends since K1.
When I spoke to her Mum about it, she said that friend had been on sleepovers before so this was fine.
I then got a FB message with a big long list of things I needed to know about her DD.
I shan’t post them all in case they are outing but they included such things like:
- Her DD needs an adult to sit with her until she is asleep,
- We have to do bedtime things in a certain order or she gets distressed,
- She has to bring six stuffed toys with her,
- An assurance that if DD gets upset in the night then we will call and she will come and collect her.
She also said that DD wets the bed about once a week but it has never happened on a sleep over (that I could cope with, for obvious reasons).
There are a total of twelve things in all, some more understandable than others, but if you need to send your child to a sleepover with a detailed instruction manual and a high likelihood that the child will need to be collected in the middle of the night, then AIBU to think that this kid is just not ready for sleep overs?