My 8 year old DS visits his dad for a weekend once a fortnight from 6pm on Friday until 6pm on a Sunday. He never phones or emails or has any contact outwith this contact with his son which I find bizarre anyway. on the 14th of April he was dur at 6 but rang me at 6.05pm to say he could not have his son as his GF was ill and needed to go to hospital. Fair enough, of course so I cancelled my weekend plans and had our DS instead. He never rescheduled or contacted his son to explain etc. He picked him up as usual this Friday gone - and when I collected our DS he was really upset. He told me that although the GF had taken him to the cinema with friends and he other friends round to play on the Sunday, his father had not spent any time with him at all. he didn't want to go to the cinema and he wasn't even at home when I picked DS up. He said his dad went out to the pub around lunchtime and he hadn't seen him since. Surely this is unreasonable considering he has had no contact with our DS since March!! Surely he should be cramming as much time with his son into the weekend as he can manage!
During the weekend the GF gave my son a wonderful description of why she was ill. She had an injection in herarm to put her to sleep, then a tube put down her throat to remove yellowish stones from her stomach... not sure he needs to know this actually but hey-ho...
She then goes on to tell him that her and daddy are trying to have a little baby boy!! Does he really need to know that?? Surely wait until a pregnancy has been confirmed and she is past the 3 months stage and tell him he is going to be a big brother. He's only 8 and unless they plan on discussing the birds and bees then I feel it is a dodgy topic of conversation.
Grr... rant over!