"She had been out to dinner - on a party bus! - with other moms for a good friend's 40th birthday party. In the meantime, the kids had a ball with their "hands-on 'Super Dad,'" Stephanie explains. Nick took the kids - Gwen, 10-year-old Clayton and 3-year-old Penelope - out for dinner, milkshakes and a movie. Gwen wrote about discovering her mom back home in the morning. "When I awoke, I was shocked!""
"Sounds like a harrowing experience for any kid, right? Getting accused of child abandonment, however playfully, can bring up a ton of mom guilt. "Just in case anyone was wondering how easy it is for moms to go have fun alone for three hours," Stephanie wrote on Instagram, where her story about the experience has earned over 50,000 likes and a slew of hilarious comments in four days."
""My son still brings up the time I left him. I was in labor. I was giving birth to his brother." "I went on a 3-day-trip with my cousin. While away, my daughter told her teachers she was homeless. Naturally, they asked a few follow-up questions and she shared, 'Mommy is my home and she's gone.' Mind you, she was safe with dad in the home we definitely have." "Mine told his kindergarten teacher that he visited me in jail over the weekend. Failed to mention we were playing Monopoly at the time.""
Parents discovered their second-grader had written a 15-page story portraying her mother as having left the family. The child described shock at waking to find her mother gone. In reality the mother had been at a friend's 40th birthday on a party bus while the father took the children out for dinner, milkshakes and a movie. The episode prompted feelings of mom guilt and public amusement after the mother shared it on Instagram, where it gained tens of thousands of likes and many commenters related similar childhood misunderstandings about brief parental absences.
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