published articles Beta Mum on 22 Apr 2007 10:22 pm
Night Manoeuvres
One of the least welcome developments in child rearing has left us numbed by physical exhaustion and mental trauma.
I’m not talking Contented Little Baby, Toddler Taming or Raising Boys, but The Sleepover Party, aka Lord of the Flies without the ritual slaughter, although we did consider it at about one thirty am.
When I was a child we used to call it “staying the night” and we didn’t get to do it until we were at secondary school. Now they start pestering for sleepovers from the moment they spot all the accessories you can buy.
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on 23 Apr 2007 at 6:12 pm 1.Cathy said …
Hello from another Cathy…and thanks for visiting my blog!
I don’t want to put you off but things get FAR worse once they are teenagers….
on 23 Apr 2007 at 6:27 pm 2.spymum said …
We foolishly allowed our eldest to have a birthday sleepover (six boys!). Mein Gott, the noise, the yelling, the wanton destruction! At 2.30 am I went downstairs and screeched at them to go to sleep (which, thankfully they actually did).
Needless to say, they were all up at dawn, as fresh as daisies, while hubby and I sleepwalked through the day and went to bed at 9! Never again!