JUST SAY NO TO SLEEP OVERS

This is a subject that all new parents should pay close attention to. Once you have allowed your child to have a sleep over, you have set a precedent for all future siblings as well. Sleep overs should be against the law as far as I am concerned. Every child should sleep in their own bed at night. If you want to have a pajama party, let them wear their pajamas to your house and then get picked up at eleven o'clock. I will tell you why. If you let your son have a sleepover, be prepared to wear earplugs. They will never go to sleep, and will think that it is ok to eat anything and everything that has sugar in it. If you let your daughter have a friend sleep over, be prepared to be a peacemaker, psychiatrist, and event planner for the evening. Whenever my son had someone sleep over, it sounded like the roof was going to cave in. You would have thought that there were ten kids above my head. They always had a great time, but it would take me a few days to recuperate and put sofa pillows and breakable objects back in their proper place. When my daughter had someone sleep over, there was always some kind of drama I had to deal with. This is because she always wanted more than one girl to stay over at the same time. You would think that they would have a good time, but there was always that one girl who felt left out and would cry hysterically. My daughter would come get me, and I would have to go in her room and calm them all down, think of a game that they could all play at the same time, and offer advice on how they could get along better. It is exhausting. There was a woman on my bowling team who had three children. She said that they were not allowed to sleep at anyone's house, and no one was allowed to sleep at their house. She was firm with her no sleepover rule, and once again, her children knew that they shouldn't even bother asking her because they knew her answer. (refer back to Never Say Maybe) I thought she was such a mean mother. When my daughter Trish had a birthday sleepover which involved eight or nine girls, I figured there were enough girls to pair up and have fun. Little did I know that while I was sleeping downstairs, one of the girls thought that she was being ignored, and started walking home at five o'clock in the morning. All of the other little drama queens ran after her to try and get her back, all while I am thinking they are all upstairs sleeping. They really shouldn't call them sleepovers because I don't think that anyone really ever goes to sleep. It should be called STAY UP ALL NIGHT OVERS. Just say no to sleepovers.If you don't heed my advice, you have nobody to blame but yourselves. Don't say I didn't warn you!