With their friends who's parents have similar values they're fairly similar. Some of those similarities are no screens (they can watch a movie or show on the projector on Saturday after working the farmers market w me), free play- mostly outside, travel as a family for big chunks of the year, homeschool/forest school, respectful parenting without punishments or shaming, clean diet, etc

Compared to their cousins or other standard american kids its a big difference. They can carry a full conversation with adults while looking in their eyes (and with lots of stoke), whereas you can barely get two words out of the others.

The other big one is they never get bored- the few times they've said they are they immediately got to work and do chores lol

Also their overall health and robustness is quite different from the cousins who are pretty much all dealing with some sort of development issue or allergy (most likely jab injuries)..

Yet we're the crazy black sheep in our families 🤔

The cognitive dissonance grows with each passing year