My kids arent teens yet, but I would definitely want to meet the parents before my child slept at someones house.  You can never be too safe these days!!!!

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I don't even let my kids play in a house where I haven't met at least the mom! For a sleepover I would definately want to meet both parents, and if she couldn't handle it deal would so be off - no sleepover for you kiddo!

There are people who have little or no moral standards, and a lot of them never make the news. I've known moms (when I was 13) who thought nothing of the girls boyfriend showing up and spending the night with them. You just never know and meeting the parents is the only way (short of sneaking into their house and installing spycams everywhere but that might be over the top!) to be close to sure.

 I get this all the time. We get invited for playdates and the moms are like, just drop them off for the day or whatever..I am like,I do not know you or your child! Its crazy.

Also my DH is a youth group leader and they have a sleepover at the beginning of the year.  His first year,  all the parents just dumped their kids off at our driveway. Not one came in or even got out of their car to meet my DH or I. Sorry but I do not get it.

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My oldest is 24 and my youngest is 15.With 2 in between. I have met soooo many parents it's not even funny. Some because I walked into thier house and some because they have walked into my house. My kids never seemed to mind that I wanted to meet everyone. And believe me I did. Ask you daughter to put a little faith in you that you know what your doing and only want her to be safe and happy. That if you are comfortable with where she is and who she's with you're more likley to allow her to go.  My son would reach over the seat and give me a kiss when I dropped him off at school up to his graduation. It was amazing.

Teach Them Today and They Will Remember Tomorrow.

I don't think your being overprotective but my kids have accused me of being overprotective. When they would spend the night somewhere I wanted to know not only the parents but to be sure that their wasn't some uncle or friend that was staying at the house when my kid was there. You can't be too careful, it only takes one slip up to have things go terribly wrong.

I don't have teens yet either and I have boys so I don't know if I'll ever come across this situation.  If I did, though, I would not only meet them but run background checks on them....seriously!  You just can't tell if somebody is a freak just by meeting them. 

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One of my sons' friend came over for the first time last summer and his mom just dropped him at the curb. They are both 13yrs old, but still I was shocked. So when my son went to go and hang out at his house, I made it a point to introduce myself and give her my phone number in case anything happened. She was not impressed and didn't really care. Unreal!!!

As one of the other moms posted " if you can't meet the other parents then the deal is off" Can't be too trusting these days!!

No I didn't need to meet the parents first.  Generally if DD wanted to spend the night anywhere it was with a firend that had already spent the night at our house and had been around long enough that I had a feeling for things.  Kids are an offshoot of the parents, you can usually tell by the way the child behaves if the parents are of a certain caliber.  I did meet most of them when she was younger and some of them when she was older but a few I never met at all until after she had spent the night a few times.  I asked a lot of questions of DD and her friends though and if the answers seemed right then I was ok with things. 

"Somedays are just a total waste of make-up" 

YES!  I don't even let my son do play dates without knowing who the parents are!  And when he has kids over they all know that if their parents wouldn't approve on something that it's not going to happen at my house!  And my son knows that he may not be able to play certain Wii games with certain kids because of the parents & he's not to 'push' it onto the kids either.  I may not raise my child the same way as most parents, but I respect how other parents raise their kids and don't go out of their boundries...

Amourbutterfly....can my kids come over to YOUR house? lol

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