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"  A recent morning after I&amp;#039;d gone to the movies the night before with some friends, Josh came up to me and in a very serious voice said, &amp;quot;Mommy, I didn&amp;#039;t get one minute of sleep last night because you were gone and I missed you.&amp;quot; Ten minutes later he snapped, &amp;quot;MOM\u2014leave me alone,&amp;quot; when I tried getting a brush through his hair. I&amp;#039;ve come to learn that my kids change their preferences like the wind. One minute Mommy can do no wrong and the next, it&amp;#039;s Daddy who&amp;#039;s golden. When Daddy says no to something, dear children sweet-talk Mommy, and vice versa. After countless requests the other night for Samantha to stop swinging her jump rope Bobby made good on his threat to take it away. He chucked it out the front door into the icy snow. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t like you,&amp;quot; she screamed. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re the meanest Daddy in the whole world.&amp;quot; That night, only Mommy could tuck Samantha in. While Samantha made Bobby&amp;#039;s blood boil, Ariana likely made his heart melt as she cried, &amp;quot;Daddy\u2014I want Daddy,&amp;quot; when he went to move the car from the street to the driveway. I tried distracting Ariana, kissing her and playing the &amp;quot;eat you up&amp;quot; game. I nestled my nose in her neck and tickled her, and she giggled. But 10 seconds later she wailed, &amp;quot;I want Daddy.&amp;quot; (Funny how the past two nights she&amp;#039;s woken up screaming, &amp;quot;I want Mommy.&amp;quot;) It&amp;#039;s this back-and-forth dance. Falling in and out of favor just comes with the job.\u2014Julie Weingarden Dubin Have your kids perfected the art of going from one parent to the other? Do you ever feel like they&amp;#039;re playing favorites? Share your thoughts and stories in Comments. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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