This week's Care and Feeding: What to do when friends become parents?

Our friends have three boys under age 5 , with the youngest being a 1-year-old .

With each kid, it’s gotten more difficult to do anything with them because they never get a babysitter.

Sometimes, when our friends become parents, we become incompatible in ways we were not before.

In my state, the cutoff for kindergarten is Sept. 1 . Any child born on or after the first of September starts school a year behind the other children born in the same year .

If you can afford it, go ahead and hold your kid back. If you have a physically little kid who is still working on emotional maturity.