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[katsiss]

Your child is getting to that age where they want to start having sleepover's with friends of parents whom you've never met. Of course you want to check out the house/family first. Family seems fine, you've talk to them a couple of times at school/sporting events but when it comes to going to their house....are there any indicators which would

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[lutine]

Indoor smoking would be a big No. Cleanliness... possibly. I don't mind disheveled, but filth would be a No. If there's religious crap on every surface, I'd have some drawbacks depending on my interaction with them in person.

[katsiss]

This kinda relates to why I asked. My daughter wants a classmate to stay over but we have a giant MISFITS poster in our living-room with Rev 13:18 on it which may make us look like devil worshipers or what have you. What about this type of religious regalia?

[lutine]

I'd be cool with that, so long as you're cool with my shelves of books on serial murder. ;)

Don't worry, they're up high.

[katsiss]

We also have old horror movie posters on the walls, with nakedness (along with graffiti art) and a bookshelf full of horror books/serial killer biographies. We've had one dad come over and was relieved with the MISFITS poster and graffiti art (turns out he was a graffiti writer too). I'm just worried about other parents who aren't so hip. Haha.

[idemandjustice]

Wouldn't bother me!

[idemandjustice]

I didn't even think about smoking! That would bug me.

[chibikaijuu]

It might bug your kid, too - I remember spending the night at the house of a high school friend whose parents were heavy smokers. No one smoked inside while I was there, but I had an awful sore throat when I woke up from the smoke residue.

[firiels_cat]

I've let my daughter sleep over at the home of smokers. I figure one night there would not wreck her health. But maybe I'm more tolerant because I grew up with a smoker.