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When our kids were younger we left at halftime - it was to my benefit as well as I had to work the next day and didn't want to be up late!

DH would finish the game at home

What time does it begin?

We took our son to an event and at 8pm, he asked to go home.

For the Super Bowl, our friend's party starts at 4. So we are going over right when it starts and will be home by 7 (or earlier depending on their moods!).

When we go to events at our friends' houses who have kids we sometimes take a chance and keep all the kids (6 of them from 4 years to 6 months) up past their bedtimes. For NYE we somehow managed to get our kids asleep in pack n plays at a decent time, but I started throwing up from a stomach bug, so we had to wake them up to go home! So we do something different each time depending on how the kids have been sleeping and where we are.

Until around 18 mos, I would have brought the pack n play and put her to bed at a friends house as long as the party/get together wasn't huge.

After 18 mos--we'd leave by 7:30 if the next day was a weekday.

I would just go, and he would stay up. Especially if there are other kids to play with, he'd be too distracted to be cranky about being tired. We took him to an event that started at 7:30 last weekend and we didn't get home until 10. He did great and had a lot of fun. At 3.5, staying up late every now and then isn't really a big deal for him.

We don't usually stay out super late with LO, and a Sunday would definitely be a no-go as we all have to get up early Monday morning for work/school.

Depends on age... When she was younger, I was militant about her early bedtime and unless it was a super important event, we skipped. Now, we go and just gauge her - if she is getting grumpy, we will leave but if she's doing alright, we will stay a bit longer. It helps that she has a really late bedtime (9-930pm on most nights).

I would be deterred since it's a Sunday night. I don't mind having the kids stay up Fridays and Saturdays, but it would have to be an important event for another night. The Superbowl does not equal important to me and my kids wouldn't care about it anyway. It would be different if it was a kiddie event that I knew they would really enjoy.

It depends on the age and the importance of the event. DD is 12 months so I would not take her anywhere where she couldn't go to bed by 8 - 8:30 at the latest. In that case either DH or I would stay home with her.

For me personally, I don't care about the super bowl so I would just tell DH to go without me.

Also, I'm on the west coast so it took me a second to realize that the super bowl doesn't end at 7:30pm for the rest of the country. hehe

with the 6-month old, we wouldn't go. with the 3-year old, we would have him take a nap during the afternoon so he could stay up until 9 or so. but i'm not into pushing it back further than that.

If there are no other kids going I would pass. My kid would be bored with no friends in a house with no toys. I would have to entertain her the whole time and not get to engage with my friends anyway.

We'll have a total of 6 adults and 5 kids here for the game but I'm setting up a bedroom for each kid. They are all great sleepers so I told my friends they can even just leave the kids here overnight and pick them up for school in the am if they don't want to wake them (we all live within a 5 minute radius of school).

@winniebee: yes, we did that with my sisters wedding left at 8 changed her in jammies and she passed out in car and then transfered her to crib for night

In this situation, I would offer to host at our house. We have also just stayed the night with a pack and play. If they were friends we would see easily another time, I would decline one invite and then make plans for another.

We'd go and stay til at least half time if it was a decent game! I'd just put the babies in their jammies, they'd pass out in the car and we'd transfer them! We did this during the holidays no problem!

@rachiecakes: Exactly, that makes sense to me. If you know your kid is good with it, then cool. But we have friends who KNOW their kids are terrors past bedtime and they still always bring them and it truly ruins the event for everyone.
I know mine doesn't do well at all with going more than an hour past bedtime (and that's only if he had excellent naps that day). So I almost always decline.

We just see how things go with the plan of staying out late with them. We go to the occasional sporting event with them and it's always been just fine. We also bring pajamas and change them into them before we head home.