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" A few days ago I posted about Peter playing some sort of parenting game - trying to one-up me on silly parenting things that he can do better. Honestly, don&amp;#039;t we have better things to be doing with our time? Pot, meet kettle. And let me tell you, I look good in black. Peter came to get the kids on Saturday morning due to his convoluted schedule, so that means I had them on Friday night. I thought it might be fun for us all to go out to a movie, and we invited one of Anna&amp;#039;s friends along. It turns out I should&amp;#039;ve just stopped at the zoo and filled my car with mischievous chimpanzees, because they certainly would have behaved better than Anna and her friend. I ended up reprimanding them so many times and finally threatening to pull them out of the movie if they didn&amp;#039;t settle down. Afterward, I read them the riot act and I swore to them we&amp;#039;re not going to any more movies anytime soon. Saturday, Peter showed up to take the kids and I opened my mouth (completely uninvited, mind you) and just started venting about how badly behaved Anna was the previous night. He was clearly unhappy to hear it, and he started lecturing Anna even before they pulled out of the driveway. I felt vindicated. I felt like we made a united parenting front. And then I realized that I do that just about every time I see him. I rattle off a list of Anna and David&amp;#039;s current infractions, he shakes his head or tells me that I shouldn&amp;#039;t put up with that behavior, and off they go. To his credit, I can say he doesn&amp;#039;t do that to me. I only know about the occasional infraction because Anna or David will let me know if they got in trouble or weren&amp;#039;t allowed to go on an outing they had planned because they misbehaved. In other words, what happens at Daddy&amp;#039;s stays at Daddy&amp;#039;s. That&amp;#039;s how it should be. I have no idea why I&amp;#039;ve been doing this. I guess it&amp;#039;s second nature to look to him to back me up as the heavy \u2013 I expect them to fall in line if it escalates up to him. But why am I the one escalating it? I should be dealing with this stuff myself (and believe me, I am) and it should end there. Unless there&amp;#039;s some kind of serious issue, he doesn&amp;#039;t need a blow-by-blow account from me every time I see him. Did you find yourself venting to your ex over daily things he shouldn&amp;#039;t be involved in anymore? How did you stop yourself? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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