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| | | | | | | | AUTHOR: | jillmhardman | DATE: 10/20/03 7:11am | | SUBJECT: |  Only child becomes middle child on the weekends | | | My son is three years old, and I am 21 and a single mom. I have sole custody of my son as we had gone to court and had it all fought over about a year ago. My son's father takes him every Sunday and about once a month overnight. My son's father has a girlfriend who has a child a few months older than my son from a previous relationship and they also have a new baby together. I find that when my son returns from his father's that he is very tempermental, he has a very hard time adjusting into the routines that I have set for him and he gets very attached to me. I find that lately he doesn't even want to go to his dad's and his dad says that he spends a lot of his time crying for me when he is there. My spon is also fully potty trained (at night as well) but has frequent accidents when he is with his dad. I do not want to keep my son from his father, as much as he can frusterate me, I know that I need to keep those lines of communication open for them to build a good relationship, as much as I don't like the father. I would like some suggestions on how I can help my son transistion from me to his father and then back again. It hurts me that when he comes home from his dad's I seem to have to jump in to be a disciplinarian and then our entire evening gets ruined. Please help me. | |  | |
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