[header] How to handle friends with different parenting styles [title] Keep your judgments to yourself. [step] One of the quickest ways to ruin a friendship is to judge your friend's parenting style. Parenting is extremely personal and everyone does the best that they can. 
If you tell your friend-or others-that their parenting style is wrong, you'll likely find yourself at least one friend short of what you had. [substeps] If you must say something, say it in such a way that is complimentary rather than critical.