How to Plan a Teen Sleepover

Video Transcript

"Hi. Have you ever wondered how to plan a teen sleepover? Every parent gets to enjoy this one, and this is something as a parent, it's kind of like passes of right of being a parent. So what you want to do when you're planning a sleepover is perhaps if possible make written invitations, send them out a week ahead of time. Let your child know when you sit down with them to plan it out exactly what the limit is as terms of how many children have they're going to invite, how many teens. You might also, if they do it verbally, that's fine too. Depending on your own value system you may want the parent permission. You want their parents to call and make the so that they know that they're going to be in a sleepover. Also plan to what you're sleeping accommodations are going to be. If the individual teens need to bring sleepovers, sleeping bags, or anything like that, let them know. Decide with your child what rooms are going to be off limits. Where the children are actually going to sleep, and then you also want to prepare certainly plenty of snacks, good snack foods, healthy snack foods. You would want to tell them what the rules are as they arrive and make sure that your own children know that and by all means make there's adult supervision at all times. And in the morning, make sure that you have plenty of breakfast foods because they're going to wake up hungry. Expect them to wake up late, because they'll be talking all night, but they'll wake up hungry. So have breakfast foods prepared and make sure they know how rides are getting each one of them home. With that in mind, have a happy, safe sleepover, and good luck. Doctor Felicia. Bye now."