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About insisting my ex husband does not take our daughter to his market stall all day?

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Rhiannon272 · 07/04/2013 19:11

My ex husband has recently decided to become self employed and has started a market stall. He insists that he cannot take time off work during the school holidays to care for our daughter, but has just taken a week off work to go on holiday with a friend. I work full time as he does not support our daughter financially at all.
My childminder is on holiday during the May half term and I asked my ex husband to have our daughter for 2 days. He declared that he would have her on his stall with him for one day as he cannot take time off work.
I do not think that a 7 year old should spend all day outside on a market stall - am I being unreasonable?
This is not the first time he has done this; but in the past I have made alternative arrangements as he would not change his position.

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GreenEggsAndNichts · 07/04/2013 22:05

Sounds fine to me, sorry. Just the sort of thing a child that age would enjoy.

BergholtStuttleyJohnson · 07/04/2013 22:17

She'll be fine for one day I would have thought. I used to go to model railway shows with my dad when I was a kid and "help" out behind my dads friends stand all day. I loved it.

Mother2many · 08/04/2013 20:42

OP: Be happy it isn't a garbage dump he wants to drag your child to for the day/s. (my own issues once upon a time)

Just make sure she has a few things to do, while she sits.... Maybe she can help? I'm sure she will be okay....

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