Boy/girl sleepover advice

[SingleMum01]

My DS is soon to be 8, one of his best friends/'girlfriend' is 9. He wants to have a sleepover for his birthday when he is 8 and he wants her to stay. They are both very innocent, although they are obviously very fond of each other. Would you have her to stay? They would be sleeping in the same room.

yes, of course i would

Yes - what do you think will happen?

What do her parents/carers think?

My parents thought I was very innocent too, and although I was in many ways, I remember playing 'bottom games', naked, with my male friends under the bed at age 5, and going into a cupboard with a boy at age 7 and showing each other our 'bits'. Children are naturally curious and although I'm sure they wouldn't do anything too explicit, leaving them in a room alone together all night gives plenty of opportunity for 'exploration'.

Missus - poss what Cuppatea says!

Haven't mentioned it to her parents so I'm not sure if she would be allowed or not anyway.

Children are curious - but that is innocent! I remember playing doctors and nurses with my best (male) friend at 5. Should we separate children by gender right from the start just because they might look at each other's bits?

Most of the time most children won't be interested in looking at each other's genitals - they'll want to watch some dvds, eat pizza and go to sleep. They're just children.

Yes, unless I couldn't face sleepover hell. The gender of the supposedly sleeping children would make no difference.

However, as I am Evil Mum, I would make them sleep in separate rooms, so that they were less horrible the next day.

and what makes you think that children of the same sex won't be naturally curious and play games involving showing each other their genitals?

Yes cuppatea but like you said in your post, you did things like that and children are naturally curious so what's the harm?

I can vividly remember me and my (still best friend!) getting naked and showing eachother our bits in the wardrobe

when we were about 7! Did us no harm what so ever and there's no saying that anything like that would

be more likely to happen just because they aren't both same sex. I'd say Yes let her stay over

and just keep checking on them if you are worried things may go too far or like thisisyesterday

says, separate bedrooms!