Do Kids Need a Space for Friends to Sleep Over?

I wouldn't get one just for sleepovers, I don't really like how they look either especially in a girls room. Another option would be a trundle bed, where another bed is stored underneath hers and can be pulled out when she has a friend over. Those are really neat. Also, kids will sleep on the floor at sleepovers, they don't care that much.

My son is almost 8 and has bunk beds. We got them because we thought they would come in handy if he did have company and he thought they were cool, lol. 3 years later and countless sleepovers and no one has yet to sleep in the top bunk, lol. They always "camp" out on the floor. It does however work great for storing stuffed animals and other junk off the floor :)

She does not need a bunk bed for sleepovers. My son (10)goes and has many sleep overs and they happily sleep on the floor in their sleeping bags. It is actually part of the fun! And yes, I too, have a large house and I don't think this changes things at all.

And you are right, it would potentially be dangerous for your younger children.

I had a double bed as a child, and had many sleepovers. Same with my son. The kids are fine with sleeping in a double. At least up to my son's age (12). After now, we'll have to see how the boys do. I know girls are fine with it for years and years... I've even had a "sleepover" with an old college friend, lol.

And as far as boys go, they've never had an issue with sleeping bags on the floor either. Sometimes they prefer it. :)

If you would be happy with a double for your daughter, that is how I would go, instead of bunk beds. Kids outgrow bunk beds by about age 10 or 12. A double bed can be used indefinitely.

A.,

We love our trundle bed. We decided not to get bunk beds because our son is a climber, and we heard about lots of small kids falling and getting seriously injured, and older kids getting hurt while rough housing on the bunks.

I recommend looking into trundle beds, there are so many different styles and sizes.

Good luck,
R.

I think no matter what you get for the occasion--they will end up all over the place, anywhere and everywhere--my son's first sleepover ended up with his buddy sleeping in my bed & me on the couch! (Even though they were all set up in sleeping bags on his floor--that lasted about 5 seconds!)

My daughter has a twin wiht an option for a trundle. I did think it would be nice for her to have sleepovers one day, if not with friends then with her cousins and sister or out of town guest's kids. But I havent' spent the money on actually getting the trundle. I think bunk beds are too risky from a safety perspective and unless you have a huge room are pretty big and looming.

Kids love to sleep on the floor in a sleeping bag. That was the case for most of the sleepovers I went to growing up (in southern CA). I don't think you have to have bunk beds or a bigger bed. If your husband is really set on having something else, maybe consider a trundle bed so it's ONLY there when you want it. Or, an air mattress.

I think having bunk beds or a full size bed for the occasional sleepover isn't necessary if it's not what you'd choose to have every other day.

Get a trundle bed. The second bed hides underneath the bed like a drawer and you just pull it out to sleep on. I had one as a kid and loved it.

the only reason to get a bunk bed , other than maybe if daddy always wanted one and never had one and is living vicariously, Would be if your rooms are super small and she would want the top as a loft type bed and could put the desk or something under it when she is old enough to need a desk to study by, But for sleep overs NO.

My daughter is 4 and we have had a few sleepovers. She has a queen size so they all just sleep in the same bed. Never thought it was a problem--it is boy and girls. I actually have her queen turned the other direction, so it is really wide and not as long. I have accommodated three little ones in that bed for her bday sleepover and they looked so cute and comfy.

A trundle bed is always a good investment. It might not be your childs
friend, but yours who wants to stay over.

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A trundle bed is always a good investment. It might not be your childs
friend, but yours who wants to stay over.

We don't buy furniture/arrange the house based on the possibility of someone coming to stay at some point in the distant future. :) Also, we don't do sleepovers, so I guess that would be my take on it. We love to entertain, and we have parties, dinners with friends and their families. But, we say goodbye at the end of the evening and everyone goes to their own home (unless the entire family sleeps over, which we do sometimes). It is our view that things that normally wouldn't happen in the light of day happens at night with the lights out. Children can act like fools in the company of other children. And, you don't really know what goes on in their homes, so we don't send our children there. And, whatever goes on in their homes might visit you in your home when the lights are out. It has happened, and will continue to happen. It isn't worth the risk to us to put our children in that situation. Anyway, get the furniture that *you want* for your daughter. Don't rearrange your life and your home for a maybe that might never happen anyway.

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we love sleepovers, i did as a kid also. my nephew is in there right now <3 ... i dont and wouldnt have bunk beds, only because i know my kids would jump off the top repeatedly until something or someone broke. we went away for a few days at rocking horse ranch, surprise! bunk bed in the room, the first thing they all did was climb up and jump off, we actually got them to fence it off! anyway, i do wish i had a trundle bed. i had one as a kid and we used it all the time. my mom sleeps over too sometimes, and it would be nice for her rather than trying to clean up my kids bed/area for her, then she feels bad for displacing someone. being that we have neither a bunk or trundle, the kids sleep on the floor or share a bed or someone ends up in my bed. it works out fine right now. i dont know what will happen as they get older and bigger and the whole boy/girl thing becomes an issue too. we will probably go for a trundle at some point. i love having close friends and especially the cousins sleep over, it really brings them so much closer.

Our daughter had a queen bed and then a trundle, these worked great for sleep overs. once she was in High school. So her friends always had a place to sleep. Now that she is in College her room here at home just has a twin and when her friends stay over they just use an inflatable mattress..

Most of her friends had twin beds, but if it was a group of girls, they slept in the sleeping bags..

My daughter is 7.
This past summer I had 2 sleepovers for her.
They slept in the living room. In their sleeping bags. They REALLY spread out all over the place.
My daughter's room did not have enough room for all of them.
There were 3 other girls, besides my daughter.
Sleep overs, can be anywhere in your home.
It does not have to be IN the child's room itself.

My daughter's bed is a trundle... it is not used at all.
Just cost more.

all the best,
Susan

I might have posted this twice (my computer is freaking out), but my 7 year old daughter has just started having sleepovers. She has a trundle bed so we pull out the trundle, which has a thin mattress. When she sleeps at her friends' houses, she either sleeps in bed with the friend (in a queen or double bed) or she sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor or an air mattress. None of her friends have bunk beds.

We don't do sleepovers for our kids - we say they can stay til bedtime and we'll pick them up and drive them back in their pjs of breakfast. It seems to be a nightmare for everyone - kids are exhausted and end up crying, parents are exhausted and look back on our own childhoods to the trouble we got in to - all after 'bedtime'.