How to Be a Parent Who Still Has Friends

Putting in the time doesn’t have to be impossible

Rachel Bertsche
Forge
Published in
6 min readJan 10, 2020

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PParents have all sorts of methods to connect these days. Sure, you can meet friends the old-fashioned ways — around the neighborhood or at your kid’s school — but now there are Meetup groups and neighborhood Listservs and parenting apps and Facebook groups all dedicated to bringing parents together. I’ve dabbled…

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Rachel Bertsche
Forge
Writer for

Rachel Bertsche is the bestselling author of The Kids Are in Bed: Finding Time for Yourself in the Chaos of Parenting and MWF Seeking BFF.