Do you suffer sleepover syndrome?

By Bad Dad on May 13, 08 06:52 PM

Is the sleepover a modern phnomenon because if it is then it's another new idea that I think should be outlawed.

While our three trot happily off to their pals' houses to be as nice as pie to their friends' parents, we get them back the next morning...and it's as if they've had their brains removed.

Foul tempered, tired, miserable, whining and argumentative after just a few hours sleep, this American invention that wasn't around when I was a boy has a lot to answer for.

We've banned them now - until the next one - after Sunday's horrific experience.

Nick came back from a mate's at 9am and by 10 the house was strangely quiet. He had gone back to bed with the curtains drawn...oh no you don't, matey.

By the evening he had managed to drag himself outside but come 6pm he was crashed out on the sofa as we prepared a barbecue outside.

Five requests for him to come out and have something to eat were met with teenage grunting and moaning, so we pressed on with the burgers, sausages and pasta without him.

When he finally awoke an hour later to find just a few charred remains, we were hit with a volley of abuse along the lines of "why didn't you wake me, you hate me, I want to leave home"...you get the idea.

Still, the extra food was gorgeous.