I want to preface this by saying I am not particularly organised myself. My house is not tidy and I often look like I've been pulled through a hedge. My kids, however, usually have everything they need. I have the important stuff sorted.
My ex has them every other weekend. He never brings everything back on the Monday. Not a problem if it's one of the kids T-shirts or something I have enough of here. But usually he forgets to take one of their PE kits back in on the Monday which is an issue for DS1 as that's one of his PE days. He didn't put everything back in DS2's kit so on Thursday he was without the jumper and got cold. Over the summer he once sent them into holiday club with a packed lunch consisting of a packet of crisps and an apple because his bread had gone mouldy.
This week I'm stressing because DS1's reading diary is missing and I'm sure it's at ex's flat but ex swears it isn't. It'll probably make an appearance in a month or so. DS2 now comes home every Friday with a scrap of paper with the week's spellings to learn on. No idea what happened to this bit of paper last week.
I am just sick of it. I can't have spellings go missing every other week and essential items not included in the PE kit, that I don't even know about so can't chase up. If I ask ex about things like homework he'll generally deny all knowledge. I've thought about asking the teachers to send spellings via email but I don't want to create more work for them. ARGH.
Help me, I'm stressing 😠surely I can't be the only parent with this issue.