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There are some things that our parents might have done in the 90s, like letting elementary school-aged kids watch rated R horror movies, and leaving us home alone pretty much any time. But another thing that was big then and isn’t now is the concepts of sleepovers. Now, we all know better. As in, we are well aware of the potential dangers of sleepovers for our own kids. And it’s why one mom on TikTok has rules for her kids when it comes to sleepovers.
She explains in a video that she has rules in place that she expects her kids to follow out of caution and for their safety. But she also shares a story that is basically a cautionary tale for other parents who might think she has gone a little overboard with her rules. Because even those who are more lax with the rules might think twice now when it comes to sleepovers for their kids.
The mom has a strict rule about sleepovers.
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The mom says in her video that she has always had a rule about sleepovers for her kids. And when her kids were younger, there was a situation that sort of solidified her stance on her “no sleepovers” policy.
“When my kids were little, they had this friend that they played outside with, but we did not know his family, and they only played outside together,’ she explains. “And my kids knew they weren’t allowed in this house because we didn’t know them…Well, as the friendship progressed, they wanted to start spending more time together.”
She admits that her kids were a bit too young to understand whey she didn’t allow sleepovers. For them, it was a matter of being unable to “conceptualize” the potential dangers of a sleepover. But she held firm with her rule.
She continued in her video, “They want to go in his house. And I was like, ‘no, we’re not doing that. I don’t know his parents.’ So one day, the kids decide that if I meet the parents, it might be more acceptable if they go inside. And so, I walk down. They finally convinced me to walk down, meet the parents. And I’ll never forget, like, I knocked on the door, and the dad answered the door, and he just stuck his head out, and he didn’t come outside. He didn’t invite me in, and he’s just talking to me with his head stuck out the door, and it gave me a really weird feeling.”
The story involving her child at another kid’s house could have been even worse.
Despite the sleepover rule, she says that her kid went inside the house of the friend even though he wasn’t allowed to. The mom went to the house and knocked on the door. The dad (yes, the same sketchy one from before) told her that her kid wasn’t at the house. After she threatened to call the police, the dad checked to see if her kid was there.
“So he goes back there, and out comes my kid,” she says in the video. “He said, ‘oh, I didn’t know he was back there.’ Weird. Didn’t like that. So I grabbed my kid, we go home, and they are no longer allowed to play with this kid. Because you both knew that it wasn’t supposed to happen. You both broke the rule. We’re done. A couple days go by, my kid is grounded, not going outside. But he’s just kind of acting weird…Well, they were at that age where boys and girls want to know about each other, and the kid was trying to show him things that he had found in the house. And my kids started panicking, and heard me at the door, and was trying to get out the room, and the kid was blocking the door and wouldn’t let him out.”
Other parents agree with the sleepover rule.
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The mom adds in the video that sleepovers are “dangerous.” She also says, “Don’t be letting your kids in people’s houses that you don’t know. It’s just where I’m at with it.” And other parents and adults without kids agree with her stance.
“Hey so the scary thing is…even if you’ve known the parents for years, things can 100% still happen!” One user commented on the TikTok. “Ask me how I know.”
Another agreed, “And it’s crazy cause it happened THAT FAST. Imagine a whole 12 hour sleepover.”
“My daughter gets so mad at me because of this rule,” a parent wrote. “I will not give in.”
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