When I was a kid, my best friend and I loved sleepovers. I remember one that ended badly, though. In those days, my bedroom was above the kitchen, up a narrow, iron spiral staircase. We were in my bedroom having fun \u2013 until the pillow fight.<\/p>\n
Well actually, the pillow fight itself was fun! Even when one of the feather pillows burst and snowed feathers\u00a0everywhere\u00a0in my room, down the spiral staircase, and into the kitchen. We thought that was\u00a0really fun. But \u2013 my mom sure didn\u2019t! And\u00a0her reaction wasn\u2019t fun at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cSleepovers\u201d? Really \u2013 who came up with that name? There are better names! \u201cNo-sleep-at-alls.\u201d \u201cNo-sleep-til-2-a.m.s.\u201d \u201cFall asleep at your own risk because if you do they\u2019ll paint your faces.\u201d<\/p>\n
I have a little secret. I\u2019m a nice mom, a fun mom, a fairly laid-back mom. I love being a mom. But, I\u00a0hate sleepovers.<\/p>\n
As I was writing this post, I watched my youngest sleep so soundly he didn\u2019t hear the dog barking at a visitor, snored through my conversation with the neighbor, and didn\u2019t seem to smell the homemade mac-n-cheese as it baked (that is the most shocking). He was just that\u00a0tired.<\/p>\n
And for what? A night of bonding with the buds over endless video games or movies while eating junk food? Yup! Most kids seem to love the idea of sleepovers. But the reality is they can be hard on everyone.<\/p>\n
Of course, you can also not have sleepovers at all \u2013 which may be the best choice for you and your child.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019ve given in to allowing my kids to have sleepovers. So far, they\u2019ve had lots of fun, watched and played too much media, and stayed up late \u2013 but they haven\u2019t burst any feather pillows. And truth be told? I\u2019ve kind of enjoyed watching the fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I was a kid, my best friend and I loved sleepovers. I remember one that ended badly, though. In those days, my bedroom was above the kitchen, up a narrow, iron spiral staircase. We were in my bedroom having fun \u2013 until the pillow fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[114,323,481,273,322,64],"class_list":["post-1750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-life","tag-friendship","tag-personal-safety","tag-preteen","tag-preteens","tag-sleepovers","tag-summer-fun","ages-all-school-ages"],"metadata":{"_edit_lock":["1732298535:6"],"_edit_last":["11"],"_thumbnail_id":["1752"],"slide_template":["default"],"video_format_choose":["youtube"],"_custom_body_class":[""],"_yoast_wpseo_content_score":["90"],"qode_animate-page-title":["no"],"qode_show-page-title-text":["no"],"qode_show-page-title-image":["no"],"qode_show-sidebar":["default"],"qode_hide-featured-image":["no"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":["60"],"_yoast_wpseo_primary_ages":["293"],"wpfp_favorites":["42"],"_yoast_indexnow_last_ping":["1732150859"],"ase_chapter_enable_timeline":["off"],"_wpb_vc_js_status":["false"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":["Make sleepovers safe and fun"],"_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":["Sleepovers don't usually involve much sleep - and make kids way too tired. But you can make them fun, safe, and manageable with these tips."],"_yoast_wpseo_linkdex":["69"],"_yoast_wpseo_focuskeywords":["[]"],"_yoast_wpseo_keywordsynonyms":["[\"\"]"],"_yoast_wpseo_estimated-reading-time-minutes":["4"],"_yoast_wpseo_wordproof_timestamp":[""],"ase_map_component_start_point":["a:2:{s:3:\"lat\";d:29.76;s:3:\"lng\";d:-95.38;}"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpthrivingfamilies.org\/pediatricsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}