12 year old home alone overnight?

Too young. Why don't you have the girls stay at your house for the night?

Hell NO, You are NOT being paranoid.

I cant believe the girls parents are even considering leaving their young daughter ALONE and expecting another teen to keep her safe.

Why doesn't the parent ask one of the daughters friends ... IF she can spend the night with one of them.

That way... every ones safe.

Just tell the mom that after careful consideration... you feel that your daughter is too young to be left alone ( tell her their daughter is welcome to stay with you for the night )

I don't know..... CALL ME old fashioned.. but I think its a disaster in waiting.

Oh heck no! That is not old enough for two teenagers, let alone a 12 year old, to be left alone over night! For a few hours during the day, ok, but over night, no way! I can't believe those parents are comfortable with this!

I would call them & say you know since you guys won't be home all night, how about we just have the girls stay at my house.

Ok, I grew up with strict parents, so I'm usually considerably on the lenient side with my parenting views, because I know being strict just means they will do everything behind your back. However, even I would not allow this for a 12 year old.

I would however be perfectly fine with the other girl spending the night at my house. It seems the parents don't want her by herself-hence all the effort to get a friend to sleepover-so they will probably be rather relieved if you invite their daughter to sleep over your house, as a few people have suggested. I have to agree that this seems like the better choice.

Whether she is used to being alone at night or not, in La. it's against the law the parents would b sitting in a jail cell. I actually know a mother down the the st. her and her girlfriend work at the same place, they have a 13 yr. old, 7 yr. old and 10yr. old this is the same ages as my children and i wouldn't leave them alone especially all night. i use to baby site for her but now she doesn't like me for some reason, her children stayed here for two months and no one even came and checked on them to make sure they were still alive. It's parents like these that don't deserve children.

Call the other child's mother and tell her that now that you have had the time to think about this, your daughter will not be able to stay the night at their home without adult supervision. However, you would be very happy to have their daughter stay the night at your house.

They are too young. You are not paranoid.

I think thats too young to leave a child overnight, even a mature 12 year old doesnt always use good judgement. If they were gone for a couple hours, I would say perfectly okay, but all night, no way. Never more then 15 minutes is a little paranoid in my opinion, but over night it not okay for 12 year olds. But if the girl is scared I would leave her alone overnight either, I would invite her over to our apartment for the night.

Would you leave your child alone overnight in your house?

For me, 12 is too young. Explain this to your child and the other child's parents. Then offer to have them both over at your place for the night.

A couple of 12 year olds alone all night doesn't seem like that great of an idea to me. My friends and I did a lot of stuff at that age that certainly would not be approved by parents when we were left alone like finding alcohol, video chatting with random strangers we found online, and going for late night walks.

They are too young! I would say 17 or 18 is the appropriate age if your child is mature enough

I'm 13, & I could sleepover with a friend alone when I was 12. & it depends if the other girl is responsible? Like there were a few of my friends when I was 12, that my Mom thought were irresponsible & she didn't let me go, but then there were most of my friends that my Mom trusted me with alone. But yeah, if the girl she's going to be with is a good person, then they'll be fine... But ask your daughter if she's comfortable with it! Hope I helped :)