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Would difficult child be better off not staying at my house?
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<blockquote data-quote="family mum" data-source="post: 526344" data-attributes="member: 14457"><p>Mmm. I wonder if it is true that your son in a easy child at your ex's house or if that is just posturing on his part to cut you down a bit?</p><p></p><p>You know, way back when, when people divorced, they didn't do all this shared custody thing. Instead, usually Mom got the job of raising the kids while Dad got to pick them up once a week and every second weekend, usually to something fun. So Mom was the heavy and Dad was the fun guy. </p><p></p><p>I wonder if you tried to drop the parenting some, (leaving it to Dad, so it will still get done) and concentrate on enjoying the kids, if it wouldn't a) improve your quality of life and relationship with your kids, and b) if after a while, would the behaviour your son is displaying might start happening at Dad's house as well?</p><p></p><p>Alternately, it might be that there is more structure at Dad's house so and kids like ours do better when they know what is expected. perhaps, it is worth the experiment to find out?</p><p></p><p>Welcome to the boards. I'm also new, but I have already taken a huge comfort from knowing that I'm not alone experiencing these things and having the support of the others that we are all doing the best we know how.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="family mum, post: 526344, member: 14457"] Mmm. I wonder if it is true that your son in a easy child at your ex's house or if that is just posturing on his part to cut you down a bit? You know, way back when, when people divorced, they didn't do all this shared custody thing. Instead, usually Mom got the job of raising the kids while Dad got to pick them up once a week and every second weekend, usually to something fun. So Mom was the heavy and Dad was the fun guy. I wonder if you tried to drop the parenting some, (leaving it to Dad, so it will still get done) and concentrate on enjoying the kids, if it wouldn't a) improve your quality of life and relationship with your kids, and b) if after a while, would the behaviour your son is displaying might start happening at Dad's house as well? Alternately, it might be that there is more structure at Dad's house so and kids like ours do better when they know what is expected. perhaps, it is worth the experiment to find out? Welcome to the boards. I'm also new, but I have already taken a huge comfort from knowing that I'm not alone experiencing these things and having the support of the others that we are all doing the best we know how. [/QUOTE]
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