Sleepovers- 14 year old boys, I’m not a huge fan of having kids sleep over. But would love to know what other parents allow? My son had two other boys spend the night. Obviously, I’m much more lenient, but is it taking the piss? I’m still trying to kick them off the play station at 1am. At 3:30am I’m telling them to go to sleep. I think somewhere around 4:30am is when they finally went to sleep. They were not being loud or rude, but I got hardly any sleep. It wasn’t a special occasion, just a normal sleepover being a long weekend. Is this just normal teen behaviour and I need to accept it?
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It is normal even back when I was that age 25 years ago the goal was to stay up as late as possible, the first one to pike out would end up with swear words on their face and breathing into the dogs bum. When my own kids have sleepovers I leave them to it. It is up to you what you accept or not as everyone is different.
Yes that's normal. When my teen has a sleepover I only have 3 rules. No going out of the house at night, if you mess up the place you clean it and don't be too loud. I don't care what time they go to bed as long as they're not loud enough for me to hear upstairs.
Very normal! As long as it’s not a school night, it doesn’t matter
Nope. Set expectations at the start of the night, give warnings. Just make the expectations reasonable enough for them to feel it was fun. Let them sleep in too. With a sleep in I aim for them being tired the next day but not to the extent they can't function and not so much they're struggling beyond that I.e. sleep over Saturday results in struggling on Monday at school
If they weren’t noisy and bothersome why did it matter that they went to sleep early?
It’s a rite of passage to have teen sleepovers and stay up late eating crap and playing games. The fact they weren’t being disruptive is a bonus for you
Mine can stay up as late as they want, aslong as they are quiet about it. 3 warnings and it all gets turned off.
Pull the stick out of your ass and let you kid enjoy himself.
He was at home, with friends, being safe, not being loud or rude and you got annoyed?!
It was ONE night, you could have gone to sleep and left them to their own devices, but clearly you're a helicopter mum who had to know what they were doing every second of the night.
Yep. Mine stay up late and sleep until noon. As long as they aren't destroying the house....enjoy.
Completely normal and not taking the piss at all. When we buy a new property I’ll be looking for one with bedrooms on opposite sides of the house so our kids can have their own space. Wouldn’t you rather your 14yo be at home safe rather than a lot of teens out on the streets at night? I know which I’d prefer. Make it a home they are comfortable in.
It’s so normal, They are teenagers I just leave them to it and go to bed they have rules though no going out of the house and don’t be too loud that we can hear upstairs. We set our garage up with the PlayStation etc so they can hang out down there just come upstairs when they are going to bed they are pretty respectful and most of the time they crash on the lounge downstairs at sometime in the night I just kick them upstairs when I get up in the morning.