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30 Things That Children of Divorce Wish Their Parents Knew
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  1. We can tell when you're deferring to the other parent for unpleasant decisions, and we'd rather just have a straight answer.
  2. Please answer your phone when we're not at your house; it's already hard enough being apart.
  3. We know that single parenting isn't easy — you don't have to do it all. You're allowed to have bad days.
  4. Nobody wants to grow up in an "us vs. them" situation, so please do your best to make ours a "we" situation. You don't have to be married to be a team.
  5. Your kids are not your therapists. Please seek out professional help or rely on one of your close friends for comfort, because we won't know what to do.
  6. To make the transition easier on us, take dating slow and don't introduce us to people that you're not serious about.
  7. We still want both of you at our sports games and school events, even if it's not "your week."
  8. Your unhappiness with one another rubs off on us.
  9. Please don't scream and fight in front of us. The whole point of your divorce was to avoid all of that nastiness.
  10. We know that your divorce happened for a reason, but that doesn't mean we want to know what that reason is.
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