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It sucks for my partner to miss out on this time but it was SO hard over the summers. His mom got him into therapy but she only took him for the peds suggested time and then I’d just like “he’s fine now and we will never discuss this incident again” but he still really needs help with his coping skills and it’s not safe for him to be around our girls at the present time. I hope you all can get it worked out so you feel more like a coherent family
My stepson is the same, I have a 14 month old son and you know they're very light so you can throw them around and carry them a lot longer. So my stepson always wants the same as his brother is getting but he is 5 years old and alot heavier than my bio son. He complains that he has to walk and it isn't fair, I've told him his brother is to little to be walking long distances and when he is old enough he will be walking too. I feel like I can't do anything without him having to be included.. like family holidays when he is at his mum's.. Not fair that my son has to miss out on holidays because he can't come, even though he gets to go on holidays with his mum feels like a never ending cycle at this rate 😣
@Sarah @Josie it is getting ridiculous. Its like always a constant battle. Our daughter is 19 months and she is 5 and she does the exact same thing. @Sarah I am so sorry that you all had to go through that, thats so scary. I just hate how im forming resentment for my stepchild because everybody in my husbands family (his mom) turns it into a pity party
I feel your pain . I remember one time we went on a hike but more of a walk (paved with no incline) my step daughter was mad because she didn’t wanna walk . My daughter who was 2 at the time walked maybe 2+ miles while she asked to sit in the stroller .. she was 9 . And then she kept asking why everyone was looking at her weird
Man, this was my step son. It wasn’t weekends it was a summer and every break though. I told my partner he needed to make sure his son knew we were a family and what our family dynamic was, ie we eat what’s made, no snacks after dinner, limited sweets, limited tv time- we literally don’t have the tv on at all when he’s not with us- lots of outside time, not a lot of materialistic things or child centered pricey activities, etc. I wanted him to communicate with him that he wasn’t the center of the time we were spending together, but an equal focus to the others. This worked for a few years but we did have to lax our rules a bit to help him not have such a hard time transitioning because he’s literally always on the tv and iPad with his mom. This will be the first summer we don’t have him because his mom was like “you give into his demands and let him have uninterrupted iPad and TV time” and then he started acting out and literally tried to violate his younger sister to get attention.