Would you let your 14-year-old child...

[christinadei]

No way!

 

[BrinxFam]

No Way!

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Absolutely not!!! And if I did say yes, her Daddy and my Daddy would shot that idea down pretty quick! I personally think that a if you give a kid the impression that it is okay for children (and they are still children) to spend the night together, where does it stop?

 

[meandtheguys2]

No, I wouldn't.

 

[lemondog]

Well my kids are still young, but I can tell you there is NO WAY I would let a 14yo attend a mixed-gender slumber party.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Is it me? Can someone please tell me if I am going crazy?

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING WRONG WITH SOCIETY????

I remember my best friend in 3rd and 4th grade was a boy. We were inseperable. I remember wanting to sleep over his house or him sleep at mine. totally innocent, friends have sleep overs all the time, right? My mom would just explain, girls don't sleep over boys houses, and boys don't sleep at girls. I did not get it, but it was some kind of Cardinal Rule, because I did not know any girl who could have a boy sleep over, outside of a cousin.

Since when did mixed gender sleep overs start happening???????? What are these parents thinking??? OMG, are they that hung up, even as adults, about what they were not allowed to do as a kid, so they let their kids do it??? At 14?????!!!!!! 14 has to be the WORST age to have a mixed gender sleep over, I am not worried about the girls, I am worried about the boys, at 14, those girls could go crazy on the boys. I know what I was "curious" about at 14, and if I had the opportunity, sure I would of probably "experimented".

Ok, so can you tell I agree with all the "not on my life" answers?

 

[va32h]

What the heck are the host parents thinking? Let me guess "kids are going to fool around anyway, so we should let them do it in a safe place."

I would never allow my teenage daughter or son to attend a coed slumber party.

 

[Christine]

Is it me? Can someone please tell me if I am going crazy?

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING WRONG WITH SOCIETY????

Ok, so can you tell I agree with all the "not on my life" answers?

I wonder the same thing. As a parent of a 14 year old and who is currently "mingling" with some of these idiot parents, this is what I see. Absolute, naive trust in their children. They think their children are the most wonderful, responsible children in the world. Their children just want to have fun and friends and be popular. What's wrong with them all getting together? Certainly they wouldn't try to do anything? They are perfect and we are the hip, cool parents of the millenium...BLECH. A bunch of morons, I say.

I've been the only parent to chaperone a group of kids to the movies (at 13). These kids were NOT well behaved in the theater yet their parents think they are wonderful enough to be able to do things. Ridiculous.

 

[ducklite]

Nope, no way.

My son has attended a couple of parties where the boys were invited from 7-10 or 11 pm, but then they went home and the girls had a slumber party. I had no problem with that, but it's a very different situation.

Anne

 

[coliebird]

Another BIG No here.

 

[sleepy1]

As the mother of a fourteen year old son I would say no way!!!

 

[chrissyk]

It would depend on the level of supervision. My parents allowed us to bring friends of both genders up to our lakehouse for weekends when we were teens. The boys slept in one room and the girls in another. My parents were quite vigilant about keeping the "couples" apart at night (once we got to the coupling-up age), that's for sure!

My school also had mixed-gender sleepovers for certain things (religious retreats, club retreats, etc.), and again, it was no big deal due to very good supervision.

I wouldn't let my kid go to a free-for-all mixed-gender sleepover, but I wouldn't have problems if it were well-supervised.

 

[Scouter]

No way I'd let my 14 DS attend. Hormones are already raging.
This party is asking for trouble.
These parents ought to be brought to Dr. Phil's show.


Stick to your own instincts. Your BF and exDH are wrong.

 

[EthansMom]

I attended a couple of church "lock-ins" (mixed gender sleep overs that were well chaperoned and once you were there for the night, you couldn't leave till your parents picked you up, hence "lock-in").

But I definitely wouldn't allow my child to attend a mixed gender sleep-over where I didn't know the parents well. If my daughter wanted to attend, I'd allow her to go until night-time (say 10 p.m.) and pick her up then (I'd check with the hosting parents to make sure this didn't interfere with their plans).

 

[KirstenB]

Our neighbors have a 16 yr old son, who has coed sleepovers at least once a month. After the most recent one, I told my dh that I'm definitely old now--my first thought was "what are they thinking?" instead of "cool....", LOL.

An acquaintance had let her son (13, same age as middle child) go over there to skateboard for a while, and was picking him up at 8 that evening. She said the older kids had the sofabeds open in the family room and were all laying in them. The mom was upstairs, and apparently had been for a while.

 

[pw2pp]

Heck NO!

 

[vettechick99]

no way!

 

[transparant]

Over my dead body.

 

[mckryan]

Nope, no co-ed sleepover parties will be going on here, nor will my daughter be going to any.

Now, I have to be honest and say that I did let her go off with a boy's family for a weekend. There were the brother and his sister, my daughter and another male friend. If my daughter was dating him, I might think differently unless the parents told me that they were going to be locked in their rooms at night with each parent sleeping outside each door! LOL But, they are just really good friends, so I wasn't worried this time.

 

[PooohBear]

No way !! one question..... WHY !? what is the point or purpose of a mixed gender sleepover !?