There is nothing wrong with a sleep over they are great fun, but if your child is going on one there are a few things you need to check.

Where are they staying? Obviously this is the most important of all questions. It is best to make a call to the family hosting the event, or if you are the host, why not be pro active and phone the parents concerned first.

Important Questions

What time do they arrive? Being fashionably late is not really an issue for children.

What time to be picked up? Very important not be be left last the next morning.

Are they going out, and how are they getting there? Just for piece of mind, you know who is driving you child and where they may be going, fast food, cinema etc.

What do they need to bring? Do they need bedding, food, what clothes? Very important for your child not to be left out.

Supa Swap's advice is not to put restrictions in the way of your child having fun but just be vigilant.

However so has the choice. I remember as a child only having three channels to watch and how much of an event it was when a fourth channel started. Today with the advent of digital and satellite TV, we have hundreds of channels.

Safe TV

So what is safe for your children to watch. Well some TV systems, sky for instance comes with child protective measures built in. they will rate films etc and then you can not access them without your pin code.

There are also a huge number of educational programs out there but be aware that an educational program about World War II could be just as graphic as an 18 film.

Watch TV with your child, the TV is not a baby sitter, it is an entertainment too, so share the experience and every now and again, turn the TV off and do something as a family.

With so much choice out there the best advice we can give from Supa Swap is if you do not like it, change the channel, you have the choice.

The box contained letters I had written as a child, programs from concerts and school events, and old baby tooth, a few pictures and other bits and pieces.

The box certainly looked well used and I imagined that on lonely nights they must have regularly looked through these items and relived very fond memories.

Happy Memories

It is then I started to do the same and started to look through the items and read the letter I had written when I was young. My spelling was atrocious but apart from that it did relive many memories that i had forgotten.

So before you throw out mementoes, just think about what effect they may have in later life on you and your children.

Thats all from the Supa Swap Parent Blog for this week.