Friendships play an active role in everyone’s life, be it children, elders, parents, and family members. Old friendships are very regardless of the different paths our lives have taken. If you’d like to keep your friendships strong with your friends who don’t have kids, some of the ways are:

• Don’t compare busyness

When you have a kid around you don’t have a lot of time and you are busy taking care of your child. So when your friend tells you about how busy she has been, under no circumstances you should reply or insinuate that her busyness level is nowhere near yours.

• Thank them for well-meant advice

Surely, your friend is not experiencing the same life that you are experiencing with a kid. So whenever your friends give you any advice by relating o the stories of their nieces or cousins, thank them for their thoughtfulness and appreciate them as they care about you.

• Invite them to your kid’s parties

People without children do care for your child, and you should invite them to your kid’s parties. Your friends without kids are actually in a good position to act as de facto aunts and uncles to your children and give them extra attention both now and late in life.

• Listen, listen and then listen some more

Your problems vastly differ now, but that doesn’t make others’ troubles less important than yours. If your friend is patient enough to listen when your child uttered his/her first word, when your child started walking, etc., you should also ask them about their life and take a real interest in the details.

• Ask them to join you

One of the biggest joys of having kids is you can relive your childhood and visit fun places that appeal to the inner child within all of us. you can ask your friends to join you for outings and get a chance to set their inner child free again.

• See them after hours

Once your child goes to bed, take out some time for yourself. You can catch up with your friend for a dinner and have some good conversations with them which will also help you in getting relaxed and your friend will also feel good that even after having a child you managed to take out some time to meet them.

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