When you've had your kid's friends spend the night over your house, what's the worst thing that's ever happened? Any horror stories? I finally gave in and let my twelve year old son's friends sleep over this past Saturday night. He had seven boys over here. Things were going pretty well...just the usual stuff like they didn't want to go to sleep....they kept coming in and out from outside...they were running around...but, the next morning OMG! When I went to wake them up, I noticed that they all had Sharpie on their faces! Turns out this one kid got it in his head to go over to my desk and get a black, red, and blue Sharpie and draw moustaches on everyone when they were sleeping! He also drew a smiley face on my couch if you can believe that! I was glad that it came off...most of it anyway. He's lucky I have an old couch or I would have been livid. Anyway...I'm not doing that for a long time to come. I guess I was asking for trouble having that many kids over at one time. ~Lisa

Well, two things come to mind right away...but I'm sure I'll think of more. LOL Maybe I'm trying to block the memories!

One time DS and his friends jumped on the sofa bed while it was pulled out...bent the legs to heck. We had a hard time getting it put back in...and it never did come out again.

DS 2 and his friends put toothpaste in sleeping boys' ears. That was horrible


Luckily, we don't have to deal with that anymore....they are 26 and 23.

When ds was younger it was mostly snacks all over the room, now at 17 the mess is in the kitchen

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I don't think anything happened at sleep overs when my kids had sleep overs.
Sorry,I was LOL reading about the mustaches

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My brother got brought home at night once... they lit firecrackers in the boy's bedroom...

At our house the worst I remember was them jumping off the half-flight of stairs and maybe hitting the ceiling? (tri-level house) don't remember anything TOO bad...

My kids have not had sleepovers.

Sleepovers are one of my least favorite parts of parenting!

The worst I guess would be when my son had a bunch of friends over--they were all about 17--and they got together and duct-taped the first guy who fell asleep into his sleeping bag.

Quite a surprise for him in the morning, but lots of great pictures!

[quote=momshops;2940572]Sleepovers are one of my least favorite parts of parenting!

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I always thought they would be a favorite part of mine, but I guess that's as long as they are going to someone elses house!

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ROFL! I was noticing so far that all the horror stories are boys... hmmm....

Nothing too bad here, but my son has never had more than 1 friend spend the night at a time. My daughter, however, had a sleepover that was so horrific, I banned some girls from my house.

Holly

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I also hate sleepovers. The worse one happened at my sons 9th birthday. I let him invite too many kids so there was about 8 boys and 1 girl (she stayed in my 8 year old daughters room). Around 11 or 12 all the kids wanted to go to sleep except for 2 boys and they would not be quiet. They had everyone else crying because they would not shut up. They were two neighbor boys and I should have just walked them home. I learned my lesson and have never had more the 3 children again and never those two boys.

DS2 (13) has friends sleepover at least once a month. It's usually the same two kids, and they know that Mrs. S. doesn't take any crap....but also doesn't get in their hair too much. I let them stay up very late if they're behaving themselves. They watch movies and play video games. If I wake up in the wee hours and they're still up, I make them go to bed and they do. We had a sleepover bday party once and that didn't go nearly as well....the mob mentality begins to set in and they all gravitate toward the least common denominator. Even DS2 wasn't happy about how out of hand things got.

The strangest thing that happened once was DH and I woke up to find one of the kids in our bedroom - creepy. He said he was sleep-walking....but I don't know. Same kid that is always in our pantry or fridge....he drives me a little nutty.

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These are great !! Keep 'em coming.

Sorry moms, lol. These stories kind of remind me of when my brother used to get into trouble.

My twelve year old nephew had his PSP stolen by one of his "friends" who was there for a birthday sleepover. Never did find out who took it.

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my daughter had one in October for her 8th bday. they broke my new Ikea couch bed. FORTUNATELY it was only $129 or else I'd have been LIVID instead of just pissed.

My son had one over the past weekend. they jumped on my blow up bed (we'd forgotten to take it down after my MIL had left) and blew a hole through it. Luckily we have 2 more.

No more sleepovers for a LOOOOOOOOONG time.

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I love when my kids have sleepover. It brings back memories when I was growing up....I always had someone spending the night.

I think the worst one was when my son was about 8. There was one boy that was really annoying and he was driving everyone crazy. That same night he decided to pour water down someone pants while they were sleeping.


My daughter had a sleepover about a month ago and they were playing the wii. They were boxing and the wii controller hit our tv.....Needless to say, our 1 week old LCD tv was ruined!

Oh honey I am so sorry about the Sharpie. The worst I had was my niece staying over, getting sick and throwing up red kool aid on my last clean sheet (I was just moving in and not unpacked) and on my beige carpet.

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Thanks for sharing your stories...keep 'em coming! I've laughed out loud at some of them...I can just see those boys lighting the firecrackers off in the room...Too funny!...I'm actually surprised that I didn't get really mad about it...Maybe I've mellowed with age?...Man, about ten years ago I would've freaked out probably...I guess through time I've learned that things can be replaced and I can't go off everytime something gets messed up or breaks. I did enjoy hearing them all laugh and have a good time. They are actually a very nice group of boys who do very well in school and are very polite. I didn't mind the Sharpie drawings on their faces/bodies...it was my couch that I was annoyed about. This kid is 12 and should have more sense than to draw on someone's furniture. I just flipped the cushion over...as I said, I'm just glad it's not new furniture! I have a friend who doesn't do sleepovers at all...she doesn't let her kids go to them and doesn't have them. I respect her views on this. I wouldn't let my kids go to one where I didn't know the parents. I should have known something probably wasn't right because the "Sharpie kid" just called up and asked if he could come. He found out from another friend of theirs about the sleepover. He just showed up at my door with another kid. I couldn't believe that his parents wouldn't call to talk to me or want to meet me! I'd never let my kid go over someone's house that I didn't know. I found that very strange. Anyway, now DH tells me that the trampoline will need a new net. It was getting old anyway, but they were all jumping on it and tore it down. I went out there and told them that they all couldn't be on it at once...it was dangerous! As the poster above said, it will be a long time before I ever have that many kids here at one time overnight! I remember back in the day, only girls had sleepovers when I was growing up. I have even heard that some teens have co-ed sleepovers...I would NEVER do that...What are these parents thinking?...Anyway, keep the stories coming! ~Lisa

This is why I told dh we are not getting a Wii until our new LCD (about 3 months old) is well over 2 years old!!!

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My Queen size sofa bed got broke from one of the girls jumpin on it. We couldn't get it back in easily and now can't get it out. I don't mind the sleepover but please don't then leave the kid the whole next day pick em up. My mother never allowed sleepovers so I try to let my own have fun as long as they are not destructive.

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YIKES!!!!! I don't know what I'd do if someone lit a firecracker in DS' room!!!!! WOW! He's 9 and has only asked to have 1 friend at a time sleepover. I can't imagine having more than that...

Sort of along the same lines. Last month we went out of town to see the TransSiberian Orchestra. We had a hotel suite and DS brought a friend-a girl, but really, just a friend. Anyway, after we went to sleep, the kids (age 17) apparently ran around the hotel playing hide and go seek (luckily the hotel was safe and almost empty!). Then, around 3am, they toilet papered the entire room that DH and I were sleeping in-how we didn't wake up I have no clue! They strung in everywhere, and wove it back and forth/up and down, in the middle of the room too. That was very weird to wake up too.

My daughter had a sleep over at around 8 and one girl was so noisy that she woke up the baby in the middle of the nigh two floos above when the sleep over was and keep my hubasand awake throught the night. In the morning when this girls mom came to pick her up I told her she had broken the rules of if you wanted to stay awake you could not distubrb others. The mom asked me what did I expect ...it was a sleep over. I told her that I expect guests in my home to follow my rules, expecially children. I also asked her to make sure her daughter didn't forget anything she came with becuase she would never find herself at our home again.

I've never had more than two girls sleep over (and they were sisters) but about 2 years ago my daugther's friend talked her into eating fish food. Yup, that smelly stuff you feed to your goldfish. I freaked out, but figured it if was good enough for fish.... She was still allowed to stay over, but her mom and I (a friend from high school) had a long talk about what was acceptable

This is not one my child had but what a friend and I did when we were 11 or 12. We had just both got our first deoderants - it was the spray type. We had a deoderant fight in the downstairs part of my parents house - about 2 in the morning. Then we spend until 5 in the morning trying to air those rooms out before my dad got up becasue we emptied two large cans of it.

at a church youth group 'campout' type thing my friend and i stayed up most of the night. we tried to pick up my sister (as she slept in her sleeping bag) and drag her out into the middle of the field we did not get far, she kept waking up and yelling at us lol

my younger son, he was about 7...his sleepover friend wanted to play " show me yours and I will show you mine"..luckily we caught them in time.

my older son, he was about 17..his friend and he climbed out on the roof from the dormer windows. They also tacked blankets to the walls to make a room so the a/c would function better...does that make any sense ? The a/c was too small for the room and I guess they were trying to make a seperate "room" for the cool air. Left a lot of tack holes in the drywall of the rented house.

Another time, we lived on a military base..my ds age 12 had a back yard sleep over in the tent. 3 kids. A woman down the street pulled a knife on her dh and then threatened to kill herself. Base MP's were called and tried to search for the woman. The police were going thru yards and searching in garages..It was a very hot and humid night too. surreal ! The kids were wound up by all the activity and even I could not sleep.

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My daughter was about 11 or so, at a friend's house. I picked her up the next day, asked how it was... she said she couldn't sleep, so her friend's mom gave her some sleeping medicine.

I tried to act calm, but as the conversation went on,.....I called the mom, she asked her daughter , and after a while, she told her mom she had given my daughter dramamine. Luckily, that was all it was,the mom didn't know about it, but i had a HUGE talk with her about taking anything without a parent's permission. My permission.
It kinda surprised me, I would not have thought that she would have done something like that at her age.
Just shows how unpredictable kids can be...
Another sad scenario is a local teen was "at a sleepover", and instead was with her boyfriend. They were drinking, and she died in a car accident.
As you can probably sense, I'm not wild about sleepovers anymore.
They don't ever seem to be that great, up all night, you pay for it with their moods, ........
They can do alot of fun stuff DURING THE DAY.
Funny, my daughter had a sleepover for her birthday last year, and she asked me what to do to help get her friends to go to sleep, she wanted to go to bed, and they all wanted to talk...

when my brother was in junior high, he had a friend stay over. We waited and waited for his parents to pick him up the next day....they never showed up. We were worried and this was "pre cell phone". Kid called home, got the machine. Come to find out from his grandma (he finally called her) that his folks went away for a week! Aparently, they thought when their son was asked for a one night sleepover that my mom went a week! YIKES! Luckily, the kid was good. His grandma couldn't take him as she lived in a retirement place...no kids overnight.

My kids aren't old enough to have them (6.5 and 8.5)

When I had them, they stunk because of all the drama girls have.I had a few in high school that were co-ed and we just stayed up all night watching movies and eating. My mom stayed up with us and we had a blast. No really sleeping (well, some couldn't stay awake) but all fun with no real downside

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I don't have any real horror stories about my son having sleepovers at our house.

When he was 4 though, we all stayed overnight at my sister's house that was 2 hours away. We were sleeping on a BRAND NEW mattress (DH, son and myself) and of course my son wet the bed. He hadn't wet the bed in at least a year at that point. We were the first ones to sleep on it.

My sister (who is a major clean freak) had a real hard time but I could tell she was upset (and rightfully so). We ended up buying the mattress from her for what she had just paid and hauled it home. She replaced it with a new one. We had our carpets, upholstry and the bed area cleaned by a company, and it was a wonderful mattress!

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This all illustrates the beauty of XBox Live.

Those boys can stay up and play video games against each other for hours, talking over their headsets, but none of them are physically there spilling popcorn down your couch cushions! :-)

I guess I should have read this thread before I told my son he could have 2 friends stay the night Saturday.

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I used to sleep walk and would sit at the foot of my parents bed til they woke up. Then they'd shuffle me back off to bed heheh

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My 11 year old DD had a little girl over a few months ago, first time she has ever been over to our house or spent the night. She came home with my DD on the bus on a Friday night. Immediately when she walked in our house, I could tell that her home wasn't smoke free. It was HORRIBLE. My entire house (2300 sq. feet) smelled of smoke (I felt like that smell was here for a week after too). We are a smoke free home and I had several attacks, coughing, stuffed up nose, etc. immediately. Just can't be around that smell, I suppose I'm allergic. Anyway, the girl wasn't "rude" but was borderline that Friday night. The Saturday morning, she got totally bent out of shape as I had been dealing with my back hurting all day Friday, I woke up and basically couldn't even move. DH and I decided I better go on to the dr., as it could be another kidney infection (I had a really bad one before and was in bed literally for 2 months while I was pregnant). The 'guest' told my DD that she 'expected' her mom (me) to take them to the mall and spend some money on her, etc!!! Leaving our home to go to the mall was NEVER discussed, at any time, and um, thanks but I have 4 kids of my own to spend money on, not spending mall money on a 'friend' we barely know, haha (her mom did not send her with any money I later found out). I grilled my DD over and over on this, she is a good kid, doesn't lie, etc. I grilled her on this as I know how kids can be about saying, 'well my mom might take us to the mall" or something like that. I told the little girl that she needed to call her mom, etc., as we needed to go on to the dr. and she would have to go on home at this time. Same situation, the mom was home but didn't show up to get her. This little girl was LIVID that we were making her go home (she wouldn't speak to us or my DD, was throwing her stuff around/together, etc.). Finally at around 3 p.m. my DH went in and told her to get her stuff we were taking her home (it's an all day clinic that I was going to, but by this time I was in pain). We dropped her off at her house, she did not even say thank you for the ride, thanks for letting me stay over, etc. Needless to say she will never be back in my home again. But here is where it all gets better...

The very next Thursday night around 6 p.m., I am home alone and this little girl starts calling every 2 minutes. I didn't answer the phone, just let the machine get it every time. I wanted my DD to see seriously how something just isn't quite right with this girl. She left about 10 messages in a one hour time frame. She was leaving messages stating she was getting off the bus here the next day to stay the night again, etc., the messages got down right hateful as she thought my DD was ignorning her calls. I could actually hear the mom in the background on some of the messages telling her what to say!!! I figured out that the mom must have thought that she had a cheap babysitter lined up for every Friday night, and all day Saturday (sorry isn't going to happen). My DD wasn't home for several hours, but after she got home and she listened to the messages, my DH and I warned her that if this 'friend' got off the bus with her, we were immediately loading her up and taking her home, and it wasn't going to be pretty. My DD couldn't believe how hateful and rude this 'friend' was on the phone. The little girl did not come home with my daughter that next day, but she did bring her sleeping bag, pillow, and bag with her to school! My DD did endure her hatefulness for several weeks over that. She was even making comments about me not being sick, etc,! Wow. I did not call the mom, I have met her and my opinion of her is that she is a real piece of work too unfortunately (long story on that). Of course I told my DD to stay away from this kid, she is not a true friend, there are issues somewhere, etc., but you know how kids are at this age with 'not having someone like you'. I suppose they have to learn for themselves at some point. I don't care if this kid ends up being her best friend 5 years down the road, she will not be back in my house though. This was the 2nd sleepover that my daughter has had (different kid). I have to agree with some of you guys, sleepovers are not what they used to be when we were kids (I was raised to be polite to the parents, offer to help with dinner and clean up, help with household chores, etc., while I was a guest in someone else's home, my parents picked me up at a decent preset time the next day that was agreed upon by both sets of parents...). But then again it's no wonder as I keep seeing more and more rude kids with absolutely no manners. Sigh.

When I saw the title, I just had to read through these.

I told my DS that he could have four friends sleepover on Saturday for his 11th BD.

One child's parents have showed up at 11pm to pick him up when I ask them to pick him up at 9pm...I'm wondering how long they will leave him on Sunday.

Another boy was over the other night and was wrestling with my son...hard. I told my DS that there would be NO wrestling with 5 boys.

They all stayed over a third boys house after Christmas and stayed up ALL night. When I brought DS home, he slept for 15 hours...missed the whole day. I already told him that they would be sleeping...no staying up all night.

I sure hope that I don't have to report any horror stories next week. Thanks to all of you, I will be hiding permanant markers, toilet paper, etc...and having them use the strap on the wii. LOL

(Oh, and absolutely NO FIRECRACKERS!)