Why do "Single Parents" Feel the Need to Entertain their Kids? 

My kids are out on Spring Break this week.  Every morning my ex calls to find out what we are "doing fun" today.  Finally this morning I asked, why do we have to be "doing something fun?"  He was taken aback and had no significant response other than, sheesh, I was just asking. 

I watch the divorced parents go down some kind of road of competition.  I don't know that they mean for it to be that.  One takes them bowling.  The next goes putt putt.  One buys them a game boy, the next and ipod.  One takes them to Disney World, the next takes them on a Cruise.  Is it just a disease of our society as a whole?  Do we not know how to just "be" with our kids.  My kids seem to be enjoying the day today just doing their own version of "putzing". 

One is chilling listening to music.  The other has her nose buried in a book.  I'm thinking we might do some transplanting of some houseplants today, and maybe cook a meal together. 

Whatever it is, we're going to just let the winds of "being" take us wherever they do, and we're not going to "entertain" each other for one minute today.  Just Be!