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"Peter needed to swap his mid-week night this week due to an early meeting the next day, so he had planned to take the kids on Wednesday. Shortly after he and I set everything up, I realized that Anna had cheerleading practice that night - and she can&amp;#039;t possibly miss it. They&amp;#039;re very close to their competition date. Time for another parental reschedule. Which I hate. I sat Anna down and told her that when she called her Dad to say goodnight, she needed to let him know about practice. I suggested that he could either just take David (which he might be fine with, since he gets the kids this weekend) or he could take David out to dinner and just hang around until her practice was over.  Peter decided instead that he&amp;#039;d rather switch nights, and take them both on Thursday. Anna got off the phone, then promptly burst into tears. She had been really excited about the two of us having a &amp;quot;Mommy/Daughter night&amp;quot;, and now Dad decided to change nights. She begged me to call him back and tell him to stick with Wednesday and just take David. But I couldn&amp;#039;t.  First of all, it&amp;#039;s not my place to tell him he can&amp;#039;t see his kid. And even though it would have been a lot easier for Peter to just take David and not worry about re-working his schedule again, he chose the more difficult route so that he could have time with Anna, too. That means something. And if he deliberately chose to spend time with Anna, I just didn&amp;#039;t feel right trying to talk him out of that. I told Anna we could arrange a Mommy/Daughter day and also a Daddy/Daughter day somewhere in the near future, but I wasn&amp;#039;t going to talk to her Dad. And of course, I got a full dose of &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t care about me&amp;quot; from my daughter. Maybe someday she&amp;#039;ll know that I cared enough to give her Dad the time I know she needs with him. Did you ever get grief from your kids for doing the right thing when you&amp;#039;re co-parenting? Does it get easier? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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