My boys love sleepovers. And we do a lot of them, I think. I did sleepovers when I was a kid, but I seem to recall them being more of a special occasion kind of thing. My kids want to have friends over constantly; almost every hang-out tends to include a request at some point to escalate it to a sleepover.

And I get it… They’re still young, and having a friend over, staying up late, sleeping out in the sleeping bags or whatever… that shit’s fun at that age. But I have a little internal ranking system in place for which of their friends I’m willing to put up with in my house for that length of time. Not all of them make the cut.