do you allow your child to sleep over in their friends house? at what age?

That is overprotective. Girl you are 22, how is it that your mother dictates whether you sleep over at a friend's house, whether you live with her or not? If I were you, I would have a nice talk with my mother about you being a grown woman, and her teaching you enough to know how to conduct yourself when she is not around. She won't be around to protect you forever, and its time she realizes that she has to let go and let you be your own woman.

I was about 13 when I had my first sleep over, my mother had to meet the parents. It was fun, but I think after age 17 I grew out of that. Some parents are just a little more overprotective than others. My mother was overprotective, sometimes. She was actually happier when I was not in the house.

I do not have any kids so, I will be answering your questions rhane base in my experience. My parents too were over protective and don't allow me to sleep over in friend's house. Even if my sister and I were in a boarding haouse before and quite far from them, we are also scared to do it without their permission. I started spending time with my friends I guess when I was 23...I also don't blame them, They have reasons also, no cellphones those time, hard to commmnicate! Cheers!

I allowed it when she was about 7 but I made sure I met the parents first and checked them out and decided that they were OK.

Yes, my husband and I allow it. The older kids are both older teens now, and the only thing I ask is that they are actually where they tell me they will be or I get a call or text telling me where instead. I am trying to remember how old I was when I started having sleepovers, probably 7ish... young grade school? I had a couple very close friends that I met in kindergarten and we all remained friends until we split to go to different high schools based on the districts we lived in. I recall that the three or four of us were always sleeping over at each other's houses so our parents must have gotten to know each other extremely well. Now, on to my youngest daughter, she is four and a half. I have allowed her to sleep over at a friends house but this friend is the daughter of MY best friend, and she and I often trade off kids for various things. This is fun for me to watch because I remember the friends I had when I was very little and it's neat to see the girls and how they play and talk. They were about two and a half when we met, and they are very close now. We are encouraging of this bond because my daughter only has siblings who are 12 and 13 years older, and her daughter only has brothers. How old are you? Have you broached the subject with your mom? If your friend stays over at your house regularly, maybe suggest that you go visit your friend and your mom comes along to meet your friend's parents. When my older kids were younger (like 12, 13) I would regularly go along inside and meet/talk to the friend's parents. Not to be nosy or obnoxious either but I would also pay attention to the area where they lived, whether it was safe, etc, and I would make sure that at least one parent or adult would be there at the house all the time while the kids were. Kids have a knack for getting into trouble if they are without supervision, and this doubles when you add to the number of kids. My kids are fairly good kids when left to their own devices, but toss in a couple of friends who AREN'T fairly good kids - you have situations where they have trespassed on property, tried to blow up things in somebody's garage.. I won't continue =) Parents do occasionally have the right to worry based on what we've experienced.

Cut your mom some slack, sometimes even the people you think you know isn't who you think they are. She is just trying to protect you to the best of her ability in a very scary world.I know because i am also a mother struggling with the same issues.

my parents allow me to sleep to my friends house when i was 12 years old because i cried every night if i am away with my mother during dawn that is why my mother don't want me to sleep outside our home so that i can' disturb the family of my friend.

Maybe you should talk to your mom.It's not a good way to protect you like that way.Because you are not a child now.you should have your owm friends.my mom will allow it when she's sure it's ok to us.actually you should do that right now!tell your mom what you ideas~~~~

i can relate to your story rhane. when my sister and i were younger we were allowed to do sleep overs at a close family friends house [my sisters god parents]which is about 20-15 mins away but only in summers which is fine. we were at the ages of 9 up i think. but it stopped because 1 time we didnt plan on sleeping over but my sister's god-mother's daughter [lol. i dont know how to call it] wanted us to sleep over so we pretended to sleep. but my parents came anyway because my dad got scolded by my grandad for letting us sleep there. hahahaha... i guess he didnt like the fact that we would sleep in other people's houses when we have a house of our own. traditional minded you see, but it was fine. until now we arent really allowed to sleep over at friends house but if we would ask permission properly my dad would just agree, even though he doesnt like it.lol. going on overnights somewhere is another thing though. since we cant sleep over always, what we do is, we invite our friends to sleep over at our house. we make our own space, they sometimes bring junk food, we provide water and other foods and movies and etc. its much better too coz your comfortable in your own house.

We have allowed our children to spend the night at friends houses before. I think their age at the time was 11 or 12. That was only once or twice, and we made sure and met the parents, got their phone numbers and directions to their house before our child was ever let go.