JANN BLACKSTONE-FORD AND SHARYL JUPE
San Luis Obispo.com

Q: I have a kindergartner and I often help out in her class. It was time for Show and Tell and some of the kids brought in things to share and talk about with their classmates. One of the children stood up in front of the class and said, "Daddy doesn't know it yet but Mommy is going to divorce him." The teacher and I were speechless. Shouldn't the mother tell her husband before she tells her 5-year-old? That can't be good ex-etiquette.

A: Well, of course it's not, but there may be more to this story than we know. Our first inclination was to say the child's mother was a complete lunatic. We like to consider all possibilities, however, and we came up with a few reasons that a divorcing parent might tell her children before she tells her spouse.

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