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When someone who allows kids to choose entertainment, friends, food and
bedtime longs to find another family that undrestands, is it fair to say they're
being too picky? Partly it depends what they want from that other family. <g>

My kids played with all kinds of other kids when they were little. It was
easiest when the parents also had a LLL background. It was hardest when the
other families were nit-picky controlling parents who didn't want the kids to
take their shoes off, EVER. It was easier with a family whose kids could strip
nekkid and run in the sprinklers. It was easier when the other kids themselves
were fine with saying, "No thanks, I shouldn't have milk," or "Do you have
juice?" rather than having a kid show up with a list of what they couldn't or
must do. It was easier for my kids to play where they could get a drink if
they were thirsty and some food if they were hungry, than places where the other
kids were being starved so they'd clean their plates, and my kids were going
home before dinner.

Everything counts, but rarely does everything have to count all at the same
time.

Sandra