How often do you let your kids have sleepovers with their grandparents? Does age matter?
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Our daughter stays with grandma/grandpa about once a month or once every 2 months. She LOVES staying with my in laws, my parents she's only done a couple times, but will in a few weeks when baby is born. She does great with sleepovers and it gives us a chance to have an adult night out/sleep in in the morning. She's been doing sleepovers since she was a baby, I'm not against this in anyway!
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We do at least once a month; sometimes twice. MIL loves having E for a sleepover. None with my mom-different situation, though
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I would allow it up to 2x a month if we lived closer!
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If either of our parents lived close, I would allow it one weekend night a week, if our parents wanted to take her! That's like....my dream.
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My parents and I offer the choice to my son at least once a week, but he has no interest!
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LO goes at least once a month, sometimes more. Everyone loves it!
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My dad used to talk about this a lot--my parents' friends used to have sleepovers with one of their grandkids 1x/week and my dad was jealous, haha--but hasn't mentioned it in awhile. LO is still nursing motn (11 months) so still too young for me to be comfortable with it (I've never been away from her overnight). When she's older, like maybe sttn, maybe once a month or every couple months? I'd love to sleep in/not wake up motn, haha...
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DS does once every couple months? Just when we have a special date night planned usually or a wedding.
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Never has, never will.
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I would allow it but MIL isn't interested. Bummer
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Let... as often as Grandparents would want. They've never asked though.
If my parents were in town they'd be asking all the time!Man... it would be awesome if Grandparents wanted to take the kids for a night!! Guaranteed zero wakeups + sleeping in!!
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My kids have never slept over at their grandparent's. I'd love it, but they don't offer. I'd let them a couple of times a month if it was offered. MIL did stay at our house with them for one night recently, so we could get away for the first time since having kids!
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I wish any of our parents wanted to take them overnight. I would only let my mom, but she has never offered and I doubt she will until they are much older.
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She hasn't yet. Anytime my mom stays with her she comes to our house. She still very much gets into everything and my parents' house is not baby-proofed at all, so it's just easier for them to come to us. Once she's older I can see it happening maybe once a month or so. She won't ever have a sleepover with my ILs because they live out of state.
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Hasn't happened yet. Both set of grandparents live far away.
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My son has stayed with my mom and dad before - for 5 days when DH and I went on a babymoon to Mexico. That's the last time he did that, though. The kids will probably stay over a little later this year to give us a break.
The kids will never stay over with ILs.
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If they were local - once a month or more as they get older
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After thinking about it--our LO has sort of already had some sleepovers with the grandparents. When the grandparents visit us, they stay in LO's room (which doubles as our guest room and has a queen bed). When she was very young, we had our crib in our room, but after she moved to that room, the grandparents sleep in there with her and they do all her wakeups.
It's a really nice break for me and Dh! We get so much sleep, haha.
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@Anagram: my inlaws do want him and they watch him mondays so its very convenient so I'm conflicted my DH says I need to just let it go but I miss my son and have trouble with it lol. My sister says its a great break for me and I should cherish the time.
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Never.
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I wish it were more often. Right now, it's only if we have something going on like an overnight wedding. My ILs are older and I don't know that they can handle him overnight, but my parents are fine with it. I think because my dad does child care for us once/week that sort of takes care of it, but it would be nice to be able to sleep in every once in a while!
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DS stays at my parents between once a month to once every other month, whenever everyone is free. DS LOVES it and so do my parents. I'm the one that doesn't want to be away!! Lol
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My parents and ILs are far away. But they are both planning to stay with LO while we go on a few trips in the next few months.
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My dd is 17 months and sleeps over at my parents' once a week, on average. I love it (dh and I sleep in then go to brunch before picking her up), she LOVES it, and so do my parents. They live 2 mins away so it's awesome.
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I'm not ready for this yet.... DD is 15 mos and I WOH so I want all the time I can get with her on weekends and at night. But once she's older I foresee some sleep overs. Maybe once every couple of months...
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I think it averages out to about twice a month. Sometimes it's 3 times sometimes it's zero. Just depends on their schedules, if they ask to keep her or if we need them to keep her. She's 17 months and has been doing overnights since about 11 months.
She adores my parents and they adore her. My mom babysat while I went to a check up last week and I heard her tell LO "I couldn't wait to come over and be with you." we are so so blessed to have them and that I can trust them!
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I would have no issues with weekly but they've only offered twice and once was when I was in labor with DD2
My mom lives 7 hours away otherwise it'll be a lot more frequent.And probably not till they sleep through the night.
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@Mrs. Sunshine: @Charm54: haha, I need to let go.
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He has stayed there twice, and will be staying there this weekend while we go away. Allow?! As often as they would want!
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We live with my parents right now so every night is a big slumber party. He stays at my in laws once every few months. He could stay more and they wouldn't mind but they watch him a few days during the week so it's already a lot. Plus our weekends are really our time with him. He's pretty adaptable.
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@jetsa: yes you do! It's awesome !
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@Charm54: I think this is the push I needed.
little miss is due in 86 days at that point he'll probably really enjoy the alone time.
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My husband's parents will never be allowed to. And my parents could if they really wanted to, but have said no since she still nurses (not at night) and cosleeps.
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@jetsa: My ILs live 45 minutes away and are perfectly nice, responsible people but I just can't imagine wanting to send my kids on overnights very frequently. As it is, they put a lot of pressure on us to babysit. They constantly make comments about me going back to work and they could watch the kids for free, etc. I just don't get why they are so insistent on it. We sort of have a power struggle going where they don't respect me as the kids' mom (they have asked if they could take Alice to dr appts so they could talk to the specialist themselves?!?!). Anyway, I'm a control freak about my kids and I legitimately enjoying spending my time with them, so it's something that I just don't want to do in the near future. I'm sure eventually I'll want a break, but not yet.
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Not at all right now because she doesn't STTN yet and I wouldn't want to subject my parents to that lol. Once she is a reliable overnight sleeper and my parents were local... as much as they wanted?? lol. I would actually LOVE if they would watch her one night a week so we could have date night-- holy cow that would be awesome. But asking a lot I think! I have mostly been hoping that once my parents move here and LO is STTN they might be willing to do one night per month
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M has stayed with either my parents or MIL at least once a month since she was about 5 months. They all love it and it's always when we have a date night or plans with friends. mIL offered to watch her this Sat so we'll go out and she's staying with my parents at the end of the month when we go to a fundraiser.
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He sometimes goes to my ILs overnight up to once a week, but they are used to having kids around. My young niece lives with them 70% of the time, and my nephew used to live with them about that much as well. My parents have offered to take him overnight, but I don't know if they would know how to handle it, as they only watch him for a few hours a week. Getting him to sleep is so difficult, but hopefully once he gets a bit older, he'll be ok to sleep over at my parents' place. They would love it!
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