Military families and kid friends

[Anonymous]

My child chooses her own friends. We have many military families on our street. I think it would be horrible to discourage a friendship based on that. Kids need to learn about life on their own terms sometimes. You can't engineer everything.

My child has some friends from military families. I do find that the military moms are a tough nut to crack. They are pretty tight and in my experience stick together and away from the non-military moms. Even the retired ones who settle in my neighborhood are like that. I guess it makes sense since they have more in common but it can get pretty cliquey sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child chooses her own friends. We have many military families on our street. I think it would be horrible to discourage a friendship based on that. Kids need to learn about life on their own terms sometimes. You can't engineer everything.

My child has some friends from military families. I do find that the military moms are a tough nut to crack. They are pretty tight and in my experience stick together and away from the non-military moms. Even the retired ones who settle in my neighborhood are like that. I guess it makes sense since they have more in common but it can get pretty cliquey sometimes.

Maybe. It's also exhausting to have to do the new friend search every couple of years. Some people love it, many, many people find it hard. Other military wives don't have pre-existing friend groups and schedules. Everyone is ok with largely superficial friendships that once in a blue moon become the real thing. Some of us military wives have just given up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My child chooses her own friends. We have many military families on our street. I think it would be horrible to discourage a friendship based on that. Kids need to learn about life on their own terms sometimes. You can't engineer everything.

My child has some friends from military families. I do find that the military moms are a tough nut to crack. They are pretty tight and in my experience stick together and away from the non-military moms. Even the retired ones who settle in my neighborhood are like that. I guess it makes sense since they have more in common but it can get pretty cliquey sometimes.

It's because we never know who is like an early PP and hates the military. Seriously. I don't hang out much with other wives because we don't have much in common, but I'm afraid of the judgment from non-military families. You just never know these days.