Rachel Sarah of singlemommyhood.com brings up this co-parenting, post divorce issue Suggestions anyone?  

It all started when her ex contacted her daughter to say that he’d try to celebrate her birthday with her. 

Of course, her daughter’s hopes were raised. She was so hopeful, in fact, that she called her girlfriend and canceled a birthday trip they’d been planning for Disneyland.

“My daughter was SO excited about going to Disneyland with her friend for her birthday,” this mom wrote to us. “Now it’s ruined because he planted this idea of possibly seeing him. I’ve already heard my daughter telling her friend that the Disneyland trip was off because she might see her dad.”

“Of course, he hasn’t called.  It’s a guarantee that he’ll be a no show.”

“I can’t stand the term co-parenting,” she says. “”I hate the fact that I have to control my temper after he has hurt my children.”  She has tried to hold her high many times, and put on a happy face. “But I don’t have those super-human capabilities. Any mother who’s asked to NOT show her feelings when her children are hurt… well, it’s too much to ask.”

We are sure you have a lot to say on this:

• Does she have the right to be angry when this father repeatedly hurts the children?
  
• Is it right for her to express these feelings openly to her children?
• Or, should she just continue to say nothing to them about how their father’s behavior toward them makes her feel?

To read the entire post on singlemommyhood.com, click here. 

You can also find Rachel at singlemomseeking.com