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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue here is not the access/lack of access to the electronics. It's the judgmental statements that are the problem. You have a couple of choices OP:

--Set some ground rules with friends: "We all make choices with our kids about technology. I respect your right to do that as a parent and hope you respect mine. I'm not going to argue with you over who is a better parent. Some of your comments have come off as judgmental and disrespectful to me. So can we all agree to keep comments about kids and technology to ourselves?"

--Contiune to stay silent and make peace with your annoyance.

--Fade away from the group. If there's nothing else for them to talk about, then why bother? What are you getting out of connecting with these people?

I would definitely be in the sanctimommy group.  I have an only child, and when she receives text messages at all hours from a school buddy on her iPad (which DD uses only under supervision), I think:  1.  No phone for my DC till college, no way/no how and 2. Where are the parents of this buddy from school?  Why aren't they...parenting?

(When I see how easily the kids exchange photos of themselves lounging with pets and all sorts of casual off hand comments, it's easy to imagine this evolving into sexting.)

That said, I realize that I'm not going to change your ideas on this, OP.  Which is fine.  And you are not going to change mine.

So of the above options, I would advise you to stay silent, or fade away from the group.  Secure in the knowledge that, in the end, your children may be more well adjusted than mine.  :wink: 
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