Best Amazon Prime Day deals: Mumsnet favourites

Best Amazon Prime Day deals:
Mumsnet favourites

Shop now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Sleep over dilemma

2 replies

herewegogogox · 09/12/2023 11:22

My daughter (7) is primarily an only child .. she has two half sisters however they are older.

subsequently my sisters daughters who are 10 & 8 are closer to her & almost like siblings.. they have a brother who has just turned 4 & is in nursery.

here is my dilemma, my daughter only ever wants the girls to sleep over not her boy cousin who is 4… he ruins their games, screams, cries & she doesn’t enjoy his company.

am I awful if I only ask for the girls to stay over? It does make me feel bad but having all 3 almost takes away from the point of the sleepover which is a treat for my daughter & her daughters….it doesn’t make me feel nice but I recall our only girl cousin having my older sister for sleep overs & not me as my sister was closer in age so they have more in common… also 4 year old is VERY attached to mum so I think he would struggle over night ..

when it comes to playing at my house I do take all 3, just not when sleeping over …& if she needed me to babysit over night I would but I’m taking about a sleep over for pure fun purposes like if you were asking friends of child.

thankfully my mum takes 4 year old for sleepovers on nights I’ve had the girls so he isn’t left at home ..

my daughter isn’t allowed to stay at my sisters house as I do not trust her partner they have a very volitile relationship

WWUD?

AIBU?

OP posts:
Hellodarknessmyoldpal · 09/12/2023 11:30

I think this is absolutely fine. Its not like your sister is asking for them to sleepover so she can go out. Just say DD would x and y to come for a sleepover. Having a 4 yo stay the night really isn't the same thing.

10HailMarys · 09/12/2023 12:13

It’s fine. He’s too little and a four-year-old isn’t going to play well with kids who are 10, 8 and 7 anyway.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page