When you’re co-parenting, disputes are bound to come up. You divorced for a reason, so more likely than not there’s a little bad blood. But you also have to work together to raise your child. And odds are you won’t always agree with their parenting decisions. But sometimes divorce wars become proxy wars, separated by distance and played out on the battlefield of the child. Since they’re the only ones who have contact with both, it’s easy for kids to be caught in the middle of their parents’ drama. 

And this is never a good thing. Kids should be allowed not to think about the troubles that their parents are having, and just focus on being a kid. But you can’t always get what you want, and sometimes pettiness gets the best of us. Like in this story, where a dad’s derogatory comment became the perfect reason to get a little petty. Read on for the story.