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Sleepover Hosting FAQ: Millennial Edition
You’ve got this! (Ha.)
My kid wants to have a sleepover. What do I do?
Conjure memories of the dozens of sleepovers you attended in the ’90s: staying up late eating leftover pizza and cake, screaming at eardrum-piercing decibels at Are You Afraid of the Dark? episodes on Nickelodeon, and playing mind games like “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board,” which you were certain worked.
If you were lucky, the host parents had a finished basement where they could stuff all the kids and their shit for the night, but if not, it was just a given that you’d spread out all over the family room, and possibly annex the rest to the living room if space ran out. There were always the enterprising parents who had the foresight to move the coffee table out of the way, but it was hardly considered an inconvenience to diverge the sleeping bags around it.
Now put that nonsense out of your mind.
Sleepovers are a much rarer bird nowadays and therefore require much more stress and responsibility. Even if you’re only hosting one of your child’s friends, who is gracious and polite, the whole affair will still feel like a giant pain in the ass through no fault of theirs. Your warped, postmodern…
