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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  Thanks for all your thoughts.  To be clear, I don't think my friend is a sanctimommy.

I was trying to think of a good example of what bothers me - She'll talk with absolute confidence about potty training when someone asks a question, but she has yet to train her child, who is 2.  How can you be so sure about potty training when you've never done it?  She went to a potty training class though.

I just try to remember that we have different lives- not judging either as better or worse, just different. She has one child and stays at home.  Said child is 2.  I have 3 children, 2 of whom are older than hers.  I work out of the home.[/quote]

You are leaving out the fact that she's also been a kindergarten teacher, who in her early education training has probably observed and taught dozens of children in various stages of potty training, in addition to having taken a class on it (and who of us "normal" moms have done this?). Parents also unload a lot of personal anecdotes about potty training, feeding, etc., so all of that information gets registered into a kindergarten teacher's bank of knowledge. Remember that most of us moms have potty trained two kids, which isn't much more than one, and have read maybe a couple of books on the topic.

If your friend seems spot-on most of the time, take advantage of it! Don't turn it into a negative. [/quote]

OP here- I never said she was a kindergarten teacher, because she wasn't...she was a middle school teacher. If that makes a difference....[/quote]

It does make some difference, I don't know why I assumed she was a K teacher. Sorry. Still, I'm guessing that even as a middle school teacher, she's taken courses on pedagogy, child development, and has mastered time-management with children, etc., which is all valuable info. Keep her as a friend and try to get over her area of "specialization"--when your kids are in middle school, you'll definitely want her around![/quote]

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