by Tracy Morrison

Created on: April 09, 2010   Last Updated: April 12, 2010

If your teen is planning on being a parent early in life and you fully support this motivation then BY ALL MEANS, let your teen host a coed sleepover. Of course, you will need to find enough teens that have parents with the same idiotic idea. Think about how CUTE your teenager will look carrying their newborn across the stage at graduation. Awww... Yes, A Kodak moment at its best. NOT!

Encouraging coed sleepovers for teens is subliminally telling your teen "Its OK honey, your reputation at school is worthless. You don't need supervision! What are morals anyway?"" 

This may be a bit dramatic in description but definitely describes the disdain and disgust any parent SHOULD have at even the mere SUGGESTION of a coed sleepover. Unless your planning on brewing yourself 5 gallons of coffee, doing 10 minute "walk thru" inspections with a bull whip and flashlight in hand and offering pre-party visits to planned parenthood for sterilization procedures then this is truly a disaster waiting to happen.

Our parents wouldn't have allowed it, most of our mothers would have grounded us until we were 35 for just asking to participate in it. So why would we even entertain the idea? Telling your teen, "Its OK to invite the guys from the football team over for a sleepover" translates in their mind to "Sure, spending the night with everyone in school is cool with me!"

Especially now with our teens coming of age in the technological "social networking era" where everything your teen does is typically highlighted by a color photo spread on FACEBOOK and MYSPACE, keeping exposure of your teen on line down to a minimum is always for the better.

If the parents of our generation would have never allowed such behavior, why would any of us? There is a time, a place and an AGE for everything and festivities on of a coed sleepover is NOT a good topic for the Monday morning buzz in first hour class. Instilling even a modest amount of some sort of moral behavior in your child can save them from a huge mistake later on in the future.

Your teen may act very offended at the very "suggestion" that you would even ASSUME they would do anything even mildly inappropriate at the sleepover, but the point is that its not a good idea, little good would really come of it and the answer is NO. You are the parent and even though some parents feel they owe their teen an "explanation" of WHY the answer is no, they do NOT need an explanation and the answer is NO.

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