Making Friends With Other Parents Is Like Dating

The birth of my second child threw my world into chaos. I went from being a working parent of one manageable child to a stay-at-home mom with a toddler and an infant. I felt alone, and my nipples ached while I cleaned poop off the floor (View Highlight)

I did find my friends (and I stopped bragging to my toddler about my degrees (View Highlight)

Researchers at the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of time together to go from acquaintance to casual friend, 90 hours to move from casual friend to friend and 200 hours to move from friend to good friend (View Highlight)