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I think my first sleepover was around 7 so probably around that age.

My LO started having "sleepovers" at her best friend's house when she was 13 months old. The parents are very good friends of ours and we regularly keep each other's kids overnight to give each other a date night/day off from early morning wake up. To me, my comfort with sleepovers is all about my comfort level with the other parents, and less about my LO's age at the time. The girls are almost three now and they LOVE when they get to sleep at each other's houses.

She did a little before 2.5. I was out of town. DH had a last minute bachelor party for our neighbors. They have a 4 yr old and LO and her love each other. So she slept over there with the Mom while the guys went out. DH just had her sleep there instead of waking her in the middle of the night.

I don't know that we will ever let her have sleepovers. Except maybe if she ends up being good friends with the daughter of one our best couple friends. For them we would probably do it almost as a "lets trade nights and have date nights" type thing and maybe when the girls were like 5+? If we allow other sleepovers it will be older. Like mid to late elementary I think.

So, I was allowed to sleep over only if it was a party and there were a group of us. That was a really big deal when we were around 4th grade.

As a result of that, I'd be fine if my son wanted to sleep over somewhere and I knew the parents, but he doesn't even want to sleep over at my parent's house in the same town. He says he misses us too much. So, when he asks for it, we'll try it.

Like regular sleepovers I would say 8-10.