No one warned me that making friends as a mom w/other moms was such a huge, almost culture-like shock that you had to navigate carefully. All social rules you’ve learned when you were childless are out the door when you have kids. You have to tiptoe around so many different parenting styles & values so you don’t cause problems. From the diet they give their kids, to the education they choose to provide, to the ways of discipline, and even just the general way they treat their kids. (1)