So I'm reading my latest issue of Parenting magazine and I keep seeing the word "co-parenting" as in, "if your husband doesn't believe or know about co-parenting"...and can I just ask, WTF? And I'm reminded I've seen that word being tossed around alot lately.
Am I to understand that the routine job of being mom and dad and raising your children together, otherwise know to the free world since, well, FOREVER, as PARENTING, is now referred to as "co-parenting" ? Okay, so maybe it's mom and mom, or dad and dad, or grandma and grandpa doing the parenting, but still, do we need YET ANOTHER random word that means absolutely nothing just to make our roles as parents sound so more dignified and well, important? Even if you are divorced, you're still PARENTING. Well, unless you're in a funky situation or a deadbeat. But it's not just enough for me or my husband to be parents...we have to "co-parent." The idea of each of us having a role in this day-to-day world. But aren't we doing that already by virtue of being parents? Lame. Lame. Lame.
If we're making up names to fluff our stuff, just call me crazedparent diva. That'll work fine.
Mama works too.
