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My 12-year-old made an unreasonable request this week. She asked if her friend could come over and spend the night. I know, I know if you're a parent, you just reacted with instant horror like I did, or maybe you're a well adjusted normal parent and you didn't care at all. Perhaps you let your kids have sleepovers all the time.
I don't know, but for me, that is a definite deal breaker. My kids can go have sleepovers at other people's houses anytime they want. In fact, my 12-year-old will go over to her best friend's house sometimes for an entire weekend. And I think that is spectacular. But other kids coming over here? I don't know, we've already got four children in the house and there's just a barely managed level of chaos and adding one more kid to that equation disrupts the entire local ecosystem because whoever has a friend, usually it's one of the older two girls.
And then the younger two girls want to hang out …
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