Mix in 3 daughters and the summer vacation and you have a recipe for an almost daily dose of their friends sleeping over.

Can you say pet-peeve!

On more than one occasion we’ve had parents drop off their kids to sleep over (after it’s been arranged by our daughters) to spend the night and the parents never come up to the door with their kids. For the parents who already know, I have no problem with. But the ones who’s never met us and have no idea who these people are that my daughter will be spending the night with, need to make the time to meet us. When our daughters ever sleep over at their friends place we make it a priority when we drop them off to meet the parents. We need to know who’s gonna be responsible for our daughters.

Whenever we have any friends sleep over there is a small check list we usually run though with them..

- what’s your parents contact number should something happen and we need to contact them.
- do you have any allergies .. afterall they’ll be eating snacks etc that may contain stuff that they could possibly be allergic to.

- do you need to take any medication (basically do you have it packed should you need to take it)

Hey, we want to be prepared in the unlikely event something does happen. I just wish more parents would not see the time their children are away from home as freedom and take the time to meet the parents.

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