I was thinking the same thing about the child coming up with it on her own. We get a lot of kids coming up with invites without consulting adults around here.

I am not big on just letting the kids go over and spend the night. We don't invite kids to spend the night because we don't want the reciprocal invitation. But we did start troop overnights at age 6. To make everyone more comfortable we follow scout rules even when it isn't a scout function. There has to be at least one non related adult spending the night also. I have 3 core parents that always volunteer to stay. Not all at the same time but usually 2 of them. We are having a backyard campout tomorrow night with 13 girls ages 6-9.

Oh when I went to my originally Girl Scout training session and they were telling us about the sleepover rule. It originated because a leader had her troop sleeping over, young teens. For some reason she decided she needed to go to the store late in the evening. She left the girls home with her husband who was drinking. He lined the girls up and felt each one of them up describing the size of their breasts as fruit. Can you imagine! Not only having it happen to you but being his daughter and having to go to school on Monday.

So I don't want to deprive my kids from the experience of sleepovers and neither to the other parents in my troop. But we like the scout sleepover regs. Makes us all more comfortable and also protects DH and I having other adults here as witnesses. So far we have always been the host.

Tasha
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