5 is too young for sleepovers....isn't it??

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DD has a friend at school who is just an absolute nightmare. She is so unbelievably bolshy and bossy. She rules the roost at home. Punches her mother and has punched dd in the throat at school. They are friends though and dd has been to her house a few times to play and twice has gone for a sleepover. I wasn't too keen on the sleepover idea but dd was quite excited. The first time she came home with a bug and headlice. The second time she came home with severe tonsillitis and was absolutely shattered where the girl had kept her awake half the night.

Anyhow. Whenever I go to school to get dd this girl is in my face "You said I could come to your house for a sleepover" "When am I sleeping at your house?"

I don't want her to!! I think they are too young for sleepovers. They get overexcited and don't sleep for one thing!! Plus I have 2yo ds and 11month old dd2 to deal with whereas the girl is an only child. How do I keep fobbing them off without sounding rude?

Daisy I didn't really want dd to go. her friend's Mum practically begged to have her go over there to play and then to start sleeping over.

I don't think 5 is too young to stay at a friends house, but I think this is more something that is done as a babysitting favour between parents who know each other well.

If you are pregnant/have littlies I definitely don't think you have to have another child over for a sleepover. I think you have this excuse for a good couple of years, never mind how old your daughter is. Maybe, she will have some different friends in a couple of years?

You have plenty of reasons not to return the sleep over especially as you are pregnant. Our 5 year old DS had a sleepover recently and at 5.30 am DH had to go and collect him because he wanted to come home!!! He can wait a year or so now before his next sleep over.