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'They are 16 and allowed to sleep with boys'.
(From Irish Independent)
Your dilemmas answered by Katy McGuinness
Q My daughter is 13 and regularly goes on sleepovers to her friend's house nearby. The two girls have been best friends since they were babies and the friendship seems to have survived them going to different secondary schools.
My daughter has had some difficulty settling into secondary school (she is in Second Year now) and the stability of this long-standing friendship has been of enormous help when things haven't been going so well for her with the girls in school. I wouldn't be particularly friendly with this other girl's parents but until now I haven't had any particular problem with them either.
I have recently discovered that her friend's two older twin sisters who are 16 often have their boyfriends to sleep over with them while my daughter is in the house.
Often it will just be the children in the house for the evening if the parents are out but, in fairness, this has never happened without the mother having made me aware of this and checking if it is OK.
The eldest child in the family is in his early 20s and away at college and obviously this family is at a different stage to my own, as my 13-year-old is our eldest.
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