parents refusing to send child to fathers

[1234qwerty5678]

My son lives with his father during the week and I have alternate weekends.

My son started school and has been invited to a few friends for tea now. My ex has started inviting the children back but they won't come. My son is getting upset.

We can only assume it is because he is a single man in a house. Are we being sensitive to this and what could we do to tackle it?

He is a good man and hand on heart I can say he is no danger. He has even had a CRB for his charity work.

He gets on with the mums and they text him etc, it's just they won't send their children around.

I don't want to use up my weekend having to have a friend come over.

How should we tackle.

[STIDW]

Sadly there isn't really much you can do about peoples misconceptions if they have prejudices against single fathers. IT might be worth him trying to invite children to play in a public place, say a playing field to play football or take them for walks, to the library etc.

Part of being a parent is having children's friends over and getting to know them so I would be inclined to invite children to yours at weekends sometimes too.

[Chrysanthemum5]

When dd was in nursery her best friend was a boy with a SAHD. I felt quite sad when the boy's mum spoke to me to say they'd like dd to go round for a play but her DH felt too awkward to ask in case I wasn't comfortable with it. Of course I agreed dd could go round as I'd met the dad and felt happy he was kind and would look after dd fine. But it made me wonder if other mums had refused play dates? I'd second the idea of outside play dates at first - he shouldn't have to but it may help

[fakenamefornow]

Are you sure it's because of this? It might have just been bad timing.

My little boy regularly goes to a friends house with a single dad and it hadn't occurred to me until you posted this thread this might be unusual.

[ScrambledEggAndToast]

The only weird thing about this post is this:

"I don't want to waste a weekend having a friend over"

Why are you putting all the issues on your ex when you could easily have your son and his friends over and your place. You only have him every other weekend.