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Originally Posted by Zephyr2
Someone, somewhere up the thread posited that nobody wants to hear about your children and what they are up to, but that is not my experience at all. My closest friends are mostly among the group of parents that shared the joys and difficulties of raising children at the same time as us and in the same school systems. We still (weekly) see many of them even though our kids are mostly out of the nests. We do a lot of things with them: hiking, exercise classes, parties, movies, etc. The #1 topic of conversation is around the many children we all raised as a group and where they are and what they are doing. My wife is better at it than I am, and I bet she could tell you where 30 different kids from this group are in the world and what they are doing, and she also probably has their contact info. on her phone.
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This has been my experience as well. When the kids were young, we did all kinds of things with other families, camping, barbecues, beach days... and mothers especially were always giving and taking advice and dealing with issues together-sometimes painful and tragic-that arose through the years. You deal with the good and the bad--there's plenty of both. But the bad doesn't make it not worth being a parent. And for those who say no one cares about your kids? Well, I care about my friends' kids. What is friendship then if you don't care for anyone but yourself? Why bother with relationships at all? Geez. Some of you are COLD.
My family and friends loved and supported each other's children then and still do today.
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