How Do You Maintain A Friendship When Parenting Styles Differ?
An incredibly trying time is maintaining friendships when your parenting styles differ. Having someone tell you, you are doing it wrong is frustrating and stressful. Biting your tongue or cringing as you see your best friend raise their child completely opposite as you can be draining. Here are some tips to maintaining a friendship when your parenting styles differ. Recognize that there are a lot of ways of doing things. The choices and parenting styles you use to raise your child work for you. The way your friend parents works for her. As you watch aghast at the things she lets her child get away with or her overly strict attitude, remind yourself that everyone operates differently. Bite your tongue. Although you may want to point out her flaws or offer a different approach, don’t! Unless your friend asks you directly for your opinion, keep it to yourself. You wouldn’t want anyone telling you how to raise your child and she doesn’t either. Unless her child is in physical or emotional
