simplestepmom

Watched TV last night and the show brought up an interesting topic. When parents are together, you see all the ‘first’s’ of a child together. First step, first lost tooth, first haircut. But when parents split, one of them is bound to begin to miss these milestones. Only one parent will be there for the first time the tooth falls out, first movie, first whatever!

The show had a very chummy solution…the family would still do these things together even though the parents were divorced! Mom would call Dad to come over for the first dance, or for the first concert they all went together. In real America, this is such a fairytale! I do not know of any split family that would handle it this way. The closest we could come is Mom or Dad calling the other to say it had already happened, not inviting them to come be part of it. And more likely, the case is that the other parent who was not present at the time of the milestone….would never know about it.

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