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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you care how they raise their kid, and why does it stress you out?  If they are telling you to do it with your kid, that's different.  But who cares if they want THE BEST ART SCHOOL for fingerpainting and you dont'?  So what if Larla loves arugula and your kid doesn't?  That should not impact the basic tenets of friendship.

Maybe you need to let this stuff bother you less, seems to me like you're comparing too much.  Don't.  Let them do them, and you do you.  Don't be smug in your choices and don't care about theirs.[/quote]

DP, but most parents who are this intense about things like activities, food, etc., can't just live and let live.  They talk incessantly about these things, compare choices, on and on, and it's tedious AF to those of us who are more laid back.

Slightly different example, but still relevant: we went on vacation last summer with three other families.  We all had separate living quarters, but got together at the beach, for meals, etc.  Three of us are chill, one half of the fourth couple isn't.  When that translates to repeatedly yelling at all the kids for being too noisy, limiting food options because they're not healthy enough, etc., of course it impacts the rest of us.  It's not fun to see an adult yelling at kids *while on vacation* FFS.[/quote]

It takes very special friends to be able to do vacations together[/quote]

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