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maggieh62 · 02/01/2018 21:54

I need some advice. My son and his gf split up and now he lives with me and she shares a house with a girlfriend. My grand daughter is 15 months old and since the split has been staying mostly with my son and i and other times with her mum...at the moment its about 70% 30% with us as her mum works weird shifts. Now the other grandparents are getting a room ready so my grand daughter can also stay with them. This means she will be 'living' in 3 different locations. I think her mum should go p/t or get a job that enables my grand daughter to have a stable home with her mum, and then stay here with me and her dad a max of 2 nights a week. I love having her here but just feel she is being passed around from pillar to post to suit her mum's very unsociable hours at work. Also, her mum enjoys going out so we also have grand daughter then. Please can anyone say if all of this moving around is detrimental to the baby or if it could have a positive effect? She seems to settle to sleep quickly when she comes to us and at the moment, there doesn't seem to be any adverse affects. I just want the best for the baby...I love having her here but with a f/t job it is getting difficult if she is here for 4 or 5 nights a week.

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Starlight2345 · 02/01/2018 22:17

Children do adapt to what is normal . Why is it getting hard for you as his dad should generally be doing the care .

maggieh62 · 02/01/2018 22:28

Her dad leaves for work at 6.30 and nursery doesn't open till 7,45 so I get the baby up, dressed etc and take her to nursery before I go to work.

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