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[quote=Anonymous]It's such a spectrum. In some circles, I'm the intense low-screen healthy food parent. And yet I have friends that are even more intense, like no refined sugar whatsoever anytime and opt out of standardized tests at school or even go Waldorf to avoid it all.

I think you're right about how nice it can be to have long time friends. We have neighbors like that, both of us with an only child born two weeks apart. Over the years or kids have gone through different phases and we parents probably have, as well. Now in middle school, the kids aren't always best friends anymore, maybe more like cousins, with a common history. It's still nice to get together.

I'd approach conversations more liked you would with family members who insist on talking politics or some other potentially divisive topic. Subtly change the subject and take about things that are now interesting. And if that doesn't work: "I think we see things differently; we might just have to agree to disagree on that one."[/quote]

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