child stay over at a friend's house, providing that you know the parents?

If you know the parents well enough, then anytime is fine. I think parents don't take the time to know their children's friend's parents before letting them go to sleepovers and stuff.

If you know the parents well enough, then anytime is fine. I think parents don't take the time to know their children's friend's parents before letting them go to sleepovers and stuff.

i agree. Savannah and her best friend in SD were staying overnight with each since Savannah was 5. I think that as long as the parents know each well enough.

I am usually good friends with whoever they stay with first so I think once the families have spent time together in on way or another and have time to get to know each other then it's ok to let them stay. I think I would still have a lot of reservation in certain circumstances only because of my uncle....you can just never really know a person well enough

If you know the parents well enough, then anytime is fine. I think parents don't take the time to know their children's friend's parents before letting them go to sleepovers and stuff.

:agree

Depends on how well I know the parents and at what time I feel my child/ren can handle being away from home overnight. I don't have a set age in mind. my oldest goes for sleep overs at his Nana and Pop-Pop's but that is different.

DD started at 7 with my nextdoor neighbors child. Now she is 10 and always wants a sleepover but I am not a big fan of them so she does not have very many. She has a friend down the street from me who's Mom I am friends with, they are in the same class and their Dad's are on the same ship and she has been allowed a few at her house after her Mom and I have talked about it. DS is 7 and has not done one yet but is asking about it.

I honestly don't believe that you can ever really know someone else that much. Most people hide it soo well. No one to this day thinks that my uncle could do anything to harm a child, I know different though.

I honestly don't know. I'm so paranoid when it comes to that. I've had my oldest's friend stay at my house, he was 8. But I've never let him stay at someone else's house. I guess when I feel comfortable with it, but I can't say when. :shrug

I would say it depends on the child and the relationship the parents have with each other. I would guess it would be an age where the child would be mature enough to know that if something went wrong ... they could leave or call for help. We very rearely let our children have/attend sleep overs...its unfortunate but just the way it is. I think my eldest daughter had one sleepover and that was not until she was 11 yrs old and there were no teenage or adult males in the home at the time.

yeah I agree about whenever once you know there friends but also majorly depends on when I think he can handle being away from his family for that long and not have to call us in the middle of the night to pick him up lol

For us it depends on not only the parents but the child's house they're going to. Our kids are almost 12 and 8 1/2 and I'm still very picky about where they go. We usually end up with a bunch of kids here.