Molly has a friend, named Jacob,

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Molly has a friend, named Jacob,
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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 9:00am

who is 5. They are very, very good friends (son of the mom with the brain tumor). My problem/question is Molly wants him to sleep over. Katie just had a friend sleep over this weekend and they had a ball. Molly saw how much fun it was, and really wants her best friend to sleep over, too. Is it o.k. to have a boy sleep over at this age? What do you think. His mom and I have been trying to avoid the subject with these 2, but it keeps coming up. His sister is good friends with Katie - do we have both of them sleep over at the same time? Make it a big "slumber party"? Sigh - the innocence of 5 year olds - what do I do?

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Wendy

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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 9:55am

What does the mother of the boy think?
Maybe you can make it a party, but he leaves at a certain time.
I really dont know what would be wrong or right, for I have not had to deal with the opposite sex wanting to sleepover at our home.
Good luck.

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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 10:06am

So why not make it a "No Sleepover - Sleepover Party"? You do all the things that you would do at a sleepover - dinner, play games, projects, put on your pj's, watch a video from your sleeping bags/bed...but when it's time to go to sleep you go home.

That could maybe work.

Good luck.

Sherrie =}

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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 10:21am
I think you should maybe have the brother AND sister sleep over, so its not that big of a deal, ya know? When I was younger I had a boy cousin who was my age and we played together ALL the time. We had sleepovers a lot, I dont know if it's different because we were related?

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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 1:00pm

Wendy, It is really all up to the person what they think or feel about it. I personally don't see anything wrong with it cause they are only 5. My girls have a friend who has slept over in the past up until he was about 9 (my best friends son), but we always put him to sleep seperately from the girls. Plus he felt more comfortable that way. Now that he is 11 and my oldest dd is 12 they never ask anymore about spending the night. I say don't take their innocence away, they might start asking why this is not possible (him sleeping over).

Olivia

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Mon, 07-18-2005 - 1:39pm
Wendy,