Spending time with friends when you have a child and they don't
By blogging2
@blogging2 (201)
United States
July 28, 2008 9:28pm CST
We are the first in our group of friends to have a child. Our other friends have also done very well for themselves so their homes are not geared towards children the way ours are, yet their homes are where we end up most of the time. It is starting to get better as they have seen our child does not destroy the home and can eat out without being a disruption to the restaraunt, but it is still hard. Is there any good way to spend more time with them, with our daughter? She has a bed time of 8pm so it is not like she is up with us the whole time, but I know it is different now that we have a child and no one else does...
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@ashleecook (199)
• Canada
29 Jul 08
i have mixed feelings about spending time with my non child bearing friends.
on one hand, i am really glad to have people i can go interact with and get away from the stressors of family life once in a while.
but on the other hand, i feel like they have no idea where i am coming from, and don't seem to understand that i don't want to stay out really late, or go too far from home.
for me, it is a no win situation.
i'm glad to have friends that have children, but that gets old fast too. i get a little tired having a house filled with people and their children. i wish there was a happy medium.
@blogging2 (201)
• United States
29 Jul 08
Right now we are in that stage where our daugher is still too young to really have made friends of her own yet, and our friends are having trouble conceiving and you don't want to tell them all the negative... maybe when she is older there will be more oportunities for us to mix it up a bit. I would like to be able to talk to someone who understands what being a mother is...
@blogging2 (201)
• United States
29 Jul 08
So just give it some time and hope they see that she is not like other children they have seen in the past? thank you!
