To think that parents love to judge other parents?

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And this only gets worse as the children approach teenage years.
First its who is breast v bottle feeding. Then it is if you are attachment parenting.
Then as teens approach its who is allowed a phone and who isnt...
Those parents who think tv and social media are evil and those who dont.
Aibu to think unless other parents are abusive to your child...live and let live a bit

I agree that it's more pre-school. By the time they've survived long enough to get to school or had siblings, most parents develop a bit more perspective. Things that feel important in the early years such as method of feeding babies are pretty much undetectable by school age. The idealism drops off after the toddler years and the focus is much more working with the personality of the child you have rather than a more arbitary parenting method from a parenting guru.

People will always make observations, and that's OK if it stays in their own heads. I do plenty that could be judged, but I'm trying to operate as peacefully as possible around autism. So when I handed DS a can of Coke in the playground a couple of days ago, it's not because I'm a shit, lazy parent, it's because DS has just had a tiring afternoon of PE lessons, and I want to avoid a low blood sugar, post-school meltdown while we walk home from school, and to keep him in a functional state ready for an evening of swimming lessons particularly in a transition week where meltdown is more likely. While I can continue to count his ribs, vertibrae and abdominal muscles, I'm far from concerned about the health effects. I also got over the judgement about his shorts/ trouser phobia many years ago, although I draw the line at the time some dickhead swore at me in the street while DS happily skipped around in slush.