The staying up late portion of the slumber party is more like tolerated/permitted rather than encouraged. Almost every slumber party I went to/heard of watched

The staying up late portion of the slumber party is more like tolerated/permitted rather than encouraged. Almost every slumber party I went to/heard of watched an action movie or a horror movie that wasn't too hardcore for our preteen selves. I'm pretty sure it's cultural at this point. Also these kids are friends of Ebert's kid. I'm pretty sure they'll be much more movie-literate than the average kid. We were a bit too old for nintendo and too young for n64 to be part of the culture where we lived, so no comment on video games. We did run around the backyard pool for quite a while.