Do you let your children have sleepovers?

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I'm asking since this is a board for parents it's not AS based but I figured some of you had NT's aswell and of course have children so I wanted your opinions. My 8 year old and 10 year old sisters have 1 friend over (so that= 3 kids) and they scream and yell and are REALLY LOUD! It's always with adding a 3rd person in the mix weather it's the 10 year olds friend,8 year olds friend or even the 2 year old nephew add a 3rd person and it's YELLING SCREAMING AHHHHHH! (Not playing cute games but loudness) Is this normal for that age?

unfortunately for you its completely normal , ask your mom to have some activities set up for them keep em busy and hopefully quiet.

I had a few sleepovers with my best friend Stacy now and then. I always had the same routine for every sleep over and it NEVER bothered her. I never stayed at her house but she never cared about that either. I always had one on one sleepovers with her and it always worked out fine. Maybe you could try something like that with your child. Just invite one child over at a time and see how it works out. I think the yelling seems normal. My mom or dad always had to come out now and then to remind Stacy and I to quiet down.

Yeah, whenever you see girls in a sleepover, there is squealing, etc... Oh well, some males with games aren't any better. I NEVER understood the deal with males and games, even though I am male.

Yep sleepover=bedlam.

Yes. When you get two or more kids together they hype each other up. So if one yells another yells louder. If one squeals they all squeal. If one runs they all run.

It's a pack thing.

The only way to calm them down is to use a very serious and deep voice, and tell them they are breaking the rules, they need to use a quiet "indoor voice", and, (big whammy here) if they don't you will separate them.

That's serious business right there.

Putting on a movie also helps. They'll "shush" each other trying to hear it. (Keep the volume low).

If this is really difficult for you sensory wise, talk to your parents about it. We try to schedule sleep overs for my daughter when my son is away camping. Its works soooo much better.

Personally, I only allow one guest (household total) at a time ... that reduces the complete bed lam, as does scheduling the sleep overs without other kids home. Yes, the bed lam is normal, but my husband and I don't care for it, so we've found our way to keep it down.

My younger sons doesn't wear pants in the house so my older son doen't have friends over to the house while we work on this. When I had sleep overs as a kid it was much quiter when had alot of things planed, movies, make-overs i.e painting each others toes nails and this shows my age criping each others hair. Playing bord games that are good for a big group and I taught all my little buddies how to play poker and black Jack lol. I don't remeber too much noise at my parrties due to having alot on hand to do. Some of my friends on the other hands got realy wild we even had the cops come once or twice.

I have three daughters ages 17 (Aspie), 19 (NT and very social) and my nearly 5 year old Autie. I had to suffer through many slumber parties with my 19 year old. The most memorable was when my now 17 year old Aspie jumped off the top of the bunk bed and broke her foot in four different places during my now 19 year olds birthday party. I had to call another one of the Moms to come to watch the girls so I could take the broken child to the hospital.