We are different parents and it’s frustrating.

I have a best friend. She has a kiddo the same age as mine (literally days apart). We agree on most things, but some of our parenting techniques are very different. Which is fine, but sometimes I feel bullied. She spanks her kid, and although I am very against that, I never say anything about it.

My daughter who will be two in a month, sleeps great in my opinion. As a newborn she never slept. We sleep trained at 5 months, and now she sleeps 12 hours a night and 1.5 hours during the day.

My friend is always bragging about how well her kid sleeps. She’s relentless. Like I will acknowledge what she says, but then she keeps going. I sometimes feel like it’s to make me feel bad. Her kid sleeps 12 hours at night and like 3-4 hours during the day. She’s always saying how terribly my kiddo sleeps, and I don’t think her sleep is bad at all.

We just had another baby. She keeps trying to push this “Moms On Call” book on me. Says it’s the reason her kid sleeps so well, and if I want my kid to sleep I need to follow it. But I read it, and it goes against a lot of the widely acknowledged safe sleep rules. I am not comfortable with that.

But every time she asks how I am feeling and I say “tired” or that the baby didn’t sleep, she just mentions that book and how great her kid sleeps and acts like I’m doing something wrong. It’s getting so freaking frustrating. 🤦‍♀️