https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Tue, 26 May 2026 00:02:29 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735324 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 18:18:53 +0000 tysonja 735324@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>hehehe... so far all our friends without kids are really familiar with kids in general and are great with them, so it's not an issue! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735280 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:59:17 +0000 runsyellowlites 735280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Everyone always loved G! They thought he was fun, polite, and well-behaved (I never really had issues with fits/tantrums in public). Seeing how I was pretty much the only one in my Young Adults group with a child all my friends kinda took him in! Now, pretty much all our new friends have kids so they're more sympathetic than anything else. lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735258 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:47:53 +0000 yoursilverlining 735258@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our childless friends all seem to like her (or they are too polite to say otherwise!!!). LO is very, very social - which I think helps tons. She is totally cool to be passed around and held by our friends and will flirt and give lots of coy smiles. She also impresses people by how well she eats...she eats everything she can off my plate. Every veggie, weird cheeses, salad; haha *everything* she can get her little hands on! So, that's a topic of conversation! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735165 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:03:24 +0000 Raindrop 735165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think it depends how close you are with those friends. I was one of the first of my friends that had kids so yup I hang out with friends without kids all the time and they seem fine with it but the friends I have with out kids that I didn't see that much before having kids I never see now. I think that is how life goes. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735154 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:57:47 +0000 .twist. 735154@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Train: I have a friend who's already saying this kind of stuff. Or something like "I'm glad it's you and not me". haha. uh..... thanks? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735150 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:55:22 +0000 oliviaoblivia 735150@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our friends are impressed that she's always happy and doesn't cry. Our CFBC cleaning woman says she'd have a baby if it would be like our baby.<br /> It feels so nice that people like her. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735146 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:54:05 +0000 Mrs. Train 735146@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I had one friend say "see that's why I don't really want kids I think I would just be miserable.". Ummmm.... Thanks </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-735136 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:47:34 +0000 Maysprout 735136@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>LOs been a charmer lately (*knock on wood*) so pretty positively. But for the ones that have seen her in a mood there's always some wacky suggestions. One time LO was fussing about leaving the playground so my friend kept saying that I should have told LO that she won't be able to go to the playground tomorrow if she keeps fussing. I tried explaining that a threat of punishment 24 hours from now isn't going to work all that well on an overtired 18 month old but she insisted that's what she'd be doing with her kids, so good luck with that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734861 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:09:47 +0000 skibobrown 734861@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Same kinds of reactions -- They like DD a lot when she's smiley and happy. Otherwise they don't really want to have much to do with her. Luckily she is often smiley and happy, but it makes me want to explain to them that babies are often fussy for no good reason. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734827 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:58:28 +0000 Cherrybee 734827@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was that friend who didn't know how to handle my friend's children for the last 7 years!! There was no getting around it, if I wanted to spend time with her, I needed to understand that she had to bring her kids. I would just sit there open mouthed, in stunned silence, while she dealt with her three little ones who are now 7, 5 and 2 and were probably crying, throwing a tantrum and running off all simultaneously! Deep down, I thought that they were the most badly behaved children I had ever seen - oh how I am going to learn, huh?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734765 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:39:29 +0000 heffalump 734765@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@meredithNYC: My mommy friend never had a schedule for her LO, so before I had LO I didn't get it either even though I did hang out with my friend and her LO often. She never napped, except maybe a few minutes in the car on the way to someplace, and she goes to bed later than I do! Her daughter now doesn't understand when I say we have to go because my LO has to nap, because she never did that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734755 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:34:53 +0000 meredithNYC 734755@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mine are really pretty good about LO. The only thing (and this doesn't even bother me - just makes me laugh) is that they often just don't understand the baby's schedule, so they'll want to go out to dinner and ask me to bring LO. Well, LO goes to bed by 7pm, so that's pretty much a no go. But they are super sweet about her and seem to genuinely enjoy her company. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734739 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:26:32 +0000 heffalump 734739@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@googly-eyes: I'm a SAHM so if my friends ask me to go to lunch, I have no choice but to bring LO. I like having her there anyway though, my friends should get to know her! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734710 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:15:44 +0000 googly-eyes 734710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I tend not to take lo with friends w/o kids, but I too have gotten comments about her "behavior." Like, she was such a good, happy baby when she was 4 months and everyone could pass her around, but I don't get those comments when she's only happy on my lap and cries for others, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/how-do-your-friends-without-kids-react-to-your-lo#post-734696 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:11:48 +0000 heffalump 734696@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I recently went to lunch with two friends that don't have kids. One of them said that she thought my LO was very well behaved.... but that's because the last time we had lunch I had to walk around with LO most of the time. She also doesn't plan on having a LO that's my LO's age, she wants to adopt and older kid.</p> <p>My other friend said, "I'm not sure I can handle a two year old." </p> <p>The funny thing is..... LO was actually pretty well behaved! </p>