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February 6, 2006, 12:14 pm PST
General Advice
Quote From: judyblue22If this were my family, I would make my children phone their father regularly (once or twice a week) and tell him what's happening in their lives. Like a call to tell about a goal in hockey or a good mark on a test. That may help to thaw out the relationship.
Your husband should be more mature and sensible than he is behaving... but he isn't. All you can do is encourage the children to maximize what parenting time your X is prepared to give them. They do call him and let him know, because if they didn't he wouldn't call them. I think they are tired of trying because they get nothing in return. Or if they do its an email from him, he lives less than 10mins away and he emails them to talk to them. I just think that its not fair to force them to make a call to him, I'm not telling them they can't, they can call whenever they want.
Thanks though I appreciate the advice. Trouble is though when they do see him its at a game and he leaves right after before talking to them, and if he does suggest doing something its right there and right home whether they want more or not, which they don't seem to want anymore. I just don't want to force them to do something that will make them resent their father more.
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