Is it possible to maintain a friendship when the friend has a drastically different stance on parenting?
Without going into detail, I feel that her parenting style is excessively permissive. Although I don’t criticise the way she’s doing things when she’s talking about it, as how she chooses to parent her DC is none of my business.
But it’s annoying me at the moment because she’s been openly critical about my parenting lately. Critical over things like me being strict with my DC over teeth brushing and making them sit at the table to eat dinner, which aren’t unreasonable things to expect DC to do IMO.
I know the obvious answer is to just not talk about DC, but the problem with that is that she’s a home schooling SAHM (primary school age DC), so she spends the vast majority of her time with her DC, and understandably, as a result her DC are the main topic of conversation.
We’ve been friends since before either of us had DC, but this is something that’s really starting to get at me. Especially since she’s started sniping at the way I’m doing things.