How to Keep Friends After Having Kids

I recently saw an article entitled “How to Keep Friends After Having Kids” and my first thought was something like, “That’s easy! Just don’t be a jerk.”

I didn’t bother to read past the headline, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t include that obvious suggestion. It probably had some serious advice to offer. Although if you’re not sure how to hang onto friends after you have kids, I don’t know if anything can help you, let alone a post I saw in my Facebook feed.

Except maybe this one!

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So I made a few separate lists to help out.

If you’re so entrenched in the parenting thing that the only way you can envision staying friends with someone is if they have kids too?

  • Punch holes in your friends’ condoms/Replace friends’birth control with Tic Tacs
  • Set up a Tinder account for your friends’ that says “DTF (No Strings Attached!)”
  • Knock them out, dump them in a bathtub full of ice, and surgically implant an embryo inside them, I mean you’re clearly already a terrible person might as well take it all the way

If your friends already have kids but parenting is starting to dominate all your time and you can’t find the time to hang out?

  • Give your kids up for adoption they’re ruining your life
  • Remember that you’re a three-dimensional person and get a babysitter once in a while
  • Grow a pair and make your friends a priority

If you’re so obsessed with your kids that you’ve sequestered yourself in your house and alienated all your friends by disappearing from their lives?

  • Who cares, you got what you wanted!
  • Oh, you haven’t had an adult conversation in months and are having second thoughts?
  • Send out elaborate apology notes, complete with gift cards, admit you were a fool, beg for forgiveness, and ask to join their book club/fantasy football league

If your friends are turning away from you because you no longer have any non-parenting interests and you’re okay with that?

  • Hit yourself in the face with a brick

Hmm, too harsh? Bah!

There’s a difference between not keeping your friends when you have kids and not knowing how to keep friends when you have kids. And it mostly comes down to motivation. You have to want to hang onto them! Balancing your social life with having kids is not an easy task, especially at the beginning, but all it really takes is wanting to have a social life, and wanting to keep in touch with your friends.

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All parenting (and all work, or all spouse, or all LARP, if you’re into that kinda thing) and no play makes Jack a dull boy. We all need balance.

Your kids should be a top priority – the top priority – in your life. And at the beginning of the journey, it will probably consume you, both the being a parent and the figuring out how to balance the rest of your life with being a parent. That’s fine; it will take some adjusting. But adjust. Figure it out. Find a way.

Your friends are your family too, and if you let them fall by the wayside due to lack of effort, or drive them out of your life with a one-track, all-kids-all-the-time mind, you’re going to regret it. You don’t need a list of ways to correct that. You just need to care.

Of course, if they’ve stopped caring about you once you had kids? Screw ’em! (And see that first list.)


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  1. What me and my sister seem to struggle with is as our friends become parents too we realize how different each persons parenting strategies are. You end up feeling uncomfortable with the way your child acts or the way you discipline versus the way they do. Suddenly the fact that you both love 90’s boy bands and certain tv shows doesn’t provide enough common ground. It’s like you don’t know each other anymore because children change you so much.

  2. One of the things I hate the most is the phrase “I used to do ______, but then I had kids”. I don’t think there is a more blasphemous statement for a father to make. Keeping up your hobbies and interests not only benefits you as a father by keeping you sane and well balanced, but it also impacts your children on a deep level when they see that their parents have a sense of self outside of their parental responsibilities. I applaud this post and it’s message of keeping in touch with people close to you. You’re right, it is very difficult, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile.

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