Hi! I have a five year old ds, generally happy and confident child. I'm not with his dad but we have a good relationship and ds spends either 2 or 4 days a week with him (alternating weekends) he was born in another country and has recently discovered two half brothers that he didn't know anything about living in this country. As a result he has spent all of April in his home country whilst ds has been with me full time. We've exchanged daily phone calls and video messages and ds's dad has sent various messages from the new found "uncles" and expects ds to reciprocate with messages and videos. The thing is, ds cries whenever I talk about these uncles, refuses to make videos for them and has started waking up at night crying and asking me to tell daddy not to bring the uncles home with him (there is some talk of this) he also wants to watch the videos that the uncles have made, seems to warm to them a bit after watching the video but then is soon back to being upset.
I've tried to talk to him about it but he just says that he feels "shy" and can't elaborate. Does anybody know what's going on? And how can I help? Thanks!