9. If my kid is misbehaving, you can scold them. I hope you would want the same.
10. You will not judge me for my messy house or my children’s clothes and I will not judge you for our child’s performance in school or his or her inability to flush the toilet. These kids are all becoming people, and as mom friends, we get that.
11. I can tell you my true feelings about a certain child at a certain time, call my kid a jerk, tell you I don’t really like babies for more than in 1 hour increments, and tell you I won’t share my drink with my child because I don’t want their snot on my straw and you will have no judgment of me as a human being.
12. I will only return your texts when I have a moment, I will pretty much never listen to your voicemails but if it’s 2 am and you call, I will pick up the phone and listen until are all talked out.
13. I will ask your kid to say please and thank you. I will ask them to wash their hands. I will ask them to pick up their mess. And I will not blame your parenting if they fail to do any of those.
14. You are always welcome to drop and go. If you need someone to watch your kids and I am home, the more the merrier.
15. I hope that even if our kids aren’t friends anymore, we can still be. That’s the kind of mom friend you are to me.
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This post originally appeared at Her View From Home.
Check out the author’s blog, Baby on the Brehm.
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