Does your child's friend have a "pushy" mom? How do you deal

[Blue_Roses]

with it? My child has a friend who's mother is so pushy it's making my child miserable--not to mention her friend. I'm trying to be nice and bite my tongue on some of her remarks and desire to make her daughter "flawless" ( she thinks her child is perfect), but my patience is thinning and fast. I've never uncounted this and the worst part is she's my neighbor too! Geeze....

Any advice?

[MrScorpio]

1. Videotape

Make sure you fix it that the kid looks wider than they are and show it to mom

I'm evil, deal with it

[wickerwoman]

2. I had a friend in school whose father was the Republican mayor

of our town. He was always trying to give my brother and I rides home from school (we lived a few blocks away and he must have seen us waiting at the bus stop on his way home from work). We always refused because he creeped us out. The one time I slept over at his house he spanked their three year old with a wooden spoon right in front of us.

Anyway, he finally complained to our dad that we wouldn't let him drive us home and our dad told him to fuck off and never speak to us again. Not sure I would handle it the same way but I don't have any better advice. :shrug: Sorry...

How much exposure do you really need to have to her?

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. We have a neighbor

Both mother and child have, how shall we say, a penchant for the dramatic.

We've managed to scale back contact to a managable level, and all is now pretty well.

[mzteris]

4. just be busy -

you're always just going out, or just about to make dinner, or clean her room, or some *thing* that wouldn't allow socializing. (Even if you weren't going out, leave! lol)

You didn't say how old the little dears are, btw. Enroll your child in other activities. Dance, gymnastics, sports, music, art, theater - something. If the other mom wants to "enroll her daughter, too" - tell her, it's a great idea, but that she should enroll her daughter elsewhere because you think your kids need SOME time apart from each other. Too much togetherness would be bad for their friendship.