What age for sleepovers?

MrsOlson

My DD will be 5 on April 4th. I want to do something fun and different for her. Do you think that is too young for a sleepover?

The two girls that we would invite over go to my daycare so they are very comfortable with me I just don't know if they are "ready" to spend the night away from home. I talked to one of the moms and she said her daughter would but I haven't asked the other one yet. I know if my DD was asked to sleep over somewhere else she probably wouldnt be able to do it yet. Not sure.

What are your thoughts?

hikerbeth

My DD started having friends over (one friend at a time) for a sleepover when she was just over 3.

CleoKitty

I used to have a home daycare and by the time the kids were 3 y/o they were having regular sleepovers ("they" meaning my ds and two little girls the same age as him.) I don't think any of the kids would have been ready for sleepovers with random people at that age, but these three were together 40+ hours a week and were almost like siblings to each other.

By five years old my ds was spending the night with other friends. That being said, ds spends the night 2-3 times a month with his best friend but the friend is nowhere near ready to spend the night with us. We've found that to pretty much uniformly be the case: everyone loves to have ds over to their house for sleepovers but we have yet to meet another 5/6 year old who will spend the night away from their own parents (with the exception of the two girls who I used to watch, they still very regularly spend the night with us.) 

So my answer: "regular" 5 year olds may or may not be ready. Five year olds who already attend your home daycare? Sure.

 

MrsStubbs

I would not let DD sleep over at anyone else's house other than family and she is 4. I think she is still too young for that. People around here do "Late nights" where they stay until about 10 or 11 and then they take them home. Everyone that I talk to likes it but most of the people that do it are elementary and middle school.

DandelionMom

It seems like around here most kids start having sleepovers around 9 or 10ish. 

JOEBunny

I think my DD would love a sleep over.  We are going to try it with BFF and her DD, who is exactly one year older, this summer when DD is 5.

littlemermaid

My children's classmates didn't start sleepovers until around 9-10 y.o. 

 

winomom22

DD1 slept over at her friends house from daycare. I work with her mom. She did fine, although she was so excited, she didn't go to bed until late and part of that was because I forgot to mention that she needs to sleep with some sort of white noise. We plan to invite the friend over soon as well.

jlw2505

5 is way to young.  The only place my kids have slept over is at their grandparents.  My niece had her 1st sleep over at 8.  I know all kids are different but I would never let my kids sleep at a friends house at 5.