Mia Freedman

Like at first I was a little bit, I'm not going to lie, at first I felt a little bit like,

Miffed is too strong.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But like maybe like, huh.

But now I'm like that's the most delightful, lovely, cosy thing I can think of.

Well, and crucially their young friends don't feel judged.

Whether or not people are judging them, you are hyper aware when you have little kids of this feeling of being watched.

And what about you?

Do you have age gap friendships?

Just on that point about how to cultivate these friendships, since we're talking about all these, the manifold benefits of them.

In your experience, Holly, you have these younger friends.

Is this partly because the onus was a bit on you as the older friend to cultivate the friendship?

I do think there's a bit of insecurity there and the age gap thing becomes less relevant.

You understand that it's much less important than you think it is as you get older.

I remember in my 20s I had a really good friend who was two years younger than me.

And I am not joking when I say that it like weighed on me.

Every time we hung out, I just felt like this old maid dispensing my wisdom to her.

Then you realise that that's really very silly.

Do you need a friend?

Check in on me because I'm trying to cultivate M. Vernon as a friend.