So me and my child's father haven't been together in quite sometime. Since then he has married the mother of his first daughter. Now, since he's on this kick that he wants to be involved in her academics (not that I mind). I doesn't bother me that he wants to be head of the PTO (seeing as we have never really had one in this school I think he would be a great candidate although I question his motives). I don't even have a beef if he wants to meet her teachers and keep himself abreast of her progress. What I do have an issue with is, when he expects an 8 YEAR OLD to be responsible enough to remember to relay a message to me about some work that he asked for from her teacher. Don't get me wrong I have a good kid on my hands for the most part, but there are some things that I know she just isn't ready for. This level of responsibility is not for her, yet. She has to grow into it and in time she will. It would be different if she were say 12 or older, but she isn't. She is 8 and soon to be nine on the 19th of this month.The kicker bout this is that when he gets to the house to get lil mama, he NEVER SAYS A WORD TO ME about this paperwork. Last time I looked at my birth certificate, there is nothing that even remotely means Psychic attached to it and I don't work for the psychic friends network eithe. Furthermore,I am not sending two or three sheets with her when she is going to be there for all of two days. A few weeks back I sent some of her homework with her only because there was a lot of it and there was no way she was going to be able to do it all on the sunday when she came home from her father's house. But this does not mean that I will be sending homework every time she goes. Absolutely NOT.
So now I have to sit and have a long conversation with him about this issue. I know him well enough already to know that when I mention going to see the mediator (so I don't punch the dog shit out of him), that he will say some bull about "Well I don't have the finances to do that" or "I don't have time". Mind you I am not asking him to pay for it, it's coming out of my pocket. I am not even asking for 1/2 of the cost to see this man (which I might add is $180).
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