Cosmo Magazine Interviews Clinical Director Jessica LeRoy On Ways To Maintain Your Friendships After Your Friends Start Having Children
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It can be difficult to negotiate the decision to have or not have children. At a certain age, your friends start to have babies, forcing the topic into the forefront of your life. Our Clinical Director, Jessica LeRoy, spoke with Cosmopolitan Magazine on how to maintain your friendships through the trials and tribulations of having children.
In the comments section below, let us know how you maintain your friendships when everyone is on a different path? Can Mom’s and non Mom’s maintain their friendships and find a common ground to relate upon?
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Lizbeth says: 06/7/2011 at 10:57 am
As a mom with friends from all walks of life I appreciated this topic. I meet my child free friends for lunch or the occasional glass of wine at a downtown music spot. We also are part of dining club that’s “grownups only”. We meet several times a year. Our friends with out kids are invited to our family BBQ’s and dinners too. They come prepared for trampolining, lego talk, good food and music.
Jessica says: 06/9/2011 at 6:13 pm
Lizbeth, I love the way you balance your friendships. It can be a challenging to navigate when our time is being pulled in so many directions. I like how it seems that you try to incorporate all your friends without losing yourself.
Lucy says: 06/13/2011 at 11:25 am
Yes we can be friends! In fact, I think it’s a great thing for folks with kids and folks without kids to be friends. One caveat, of course, is that my non-kid-having friends have to be down with having a kid around who wants to interject, show me the bug he found, and run around while I’m doing adult things like talk-talk-talking. I enjoy the presence of people who accept that a friendship with me is a package deal with a nine-year-old. And my kid-free friends report that their lives are enriched by having him in their lives, too. It does take a community to raise a child, and the more adults that are in my kid’s life, the better. He gets to see a variety of folks of various genders, ethnicities, ages, and personalities who deal with life and see life in very different ways. This is such a healthy thing for him! And having kids in adults’ lives is great, too. Being around other people’s kids remind me of how much fun there is to be had in life, and how it’s not always the best idea to take things super seriously. It also helps me get out into the sunshine and explore our area more. I mean, if it weren’t for kids, I don’t know that I would have ever seen a tide pool!
Jessica says: 06/22/2011 at 10:34 am
Lucy I totally agree! I think it takes patience from both sides, but both sides have so much to gain by working through the friendship. And it is a huge plus to be able to go to the zoo and see it through the eyes of a child!