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Kids seeing their dad.

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Bzdad · 19/06/2025 18:00

Just wanting people's thoughts on this. My children see their dad every other weekend if his weekend falls on a bank Holiday he has them on the Monday to. He may also have them a few extra days In the summer . I have them the rest of the time.

A handful of times he has asked me to swap the weekend. But he also likes the pattern he had because he likes to have the kids when his adult daughter is around. So to get the pattern back the following weekend he would have them on the Saturday then I would have them on the Sunday. Then the pattern would go back to normal.

As i say he's done it a handful of times which is not a problem. I have done it once which is recently because I went on holiday and it clashed with his weekend.

I offered for him to have the kids a bit of extra time before we went on holiday he said no. Then I offered when we got back he said no because he likes the weekend to fall on the days his adult daughter is there. I said he could have them 2 weekends running or maybe just one of the days. I said I didn't mind. I said I thought I would offer incase you wanted to. He then said he's made other arrangements.

So basically it's been a month since he's seen the kids as I say he's asked me to change the weekends Which is fine but normally we juggle things about a bit so there's not a long gap.

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GreySkyAtNight · 20/06/2025 02:04

So basically it's been a month since he's seen the kids as I say he's asked me to change the weekends Which is fine but normally we juggle things about a bit so there's not a long gap

I think this is the part you need to say to him, with a proposed solution.

Bzdad · 20/06/2025 07:48

GreySkyAtNight · 20/06/2025 02:04

So basically it's been a month since he's seen the kids as I say he's asked me to change the weekends Which is fine but normally we juggle things about a bit so there's not a long gap

I think this is the part you need to say to him, with a proposed solution.

He said he's made plans. I offered so its up to him . Hopefully its a one of. As not fair on kids.

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