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Advice on kids with sailor being gone?
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Permalink Reply by sailorwifenmom on
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I'm sorry, it can be hard with little ones, and this does happen a lot. Part of it could be that to your son, Daddy came home and it was all exciting. (some kids don't want anything to do with daddy / mommy when they return, for various reasons, so the good thing is you don't gave that to overcome)
But now, it's like "ok, yeah, yeah, Daddy fame home, that's old news, back to my routine..." which was all you, because he was gone. It will get better, don't push it to hard, but just do things like have Dad run the bath - if he still really wants you, then the 2 of you togetherRight give him a bath. You go "run errands" and leave them home together to do something fun, or let them go run an errand together (and stop for like an ice cream or at the park, something father / son).
Right now, you all are in that "renegotiation of the family contract" stage where everyone is sort of shifting about to readjust to him being home. It just takes time with the little ones.
Hang in there! Oh - and if you haven't yet, check out Military One Source, they have a lot of great info on helping with this sort of stuff! -
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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I think Sailorwifemom has great advice! Giving them day to day together time sounds perfect.
A story: Apparently, when I was quite small, dad made chief while at sea. He came home in a different uniform and I didn't want a thing to do with him! I wanted "my other daddy". I don't remember all this, mom used to tell me about it. It was the early 60s, so dad didn't do any of the take care of me things, but we did all go fishing or camping as a family.
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Permalink Reply by Le Shelby on
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Yeah, i actually think this might now be triggered to him going back to work...when he got back, he spent two weeks off just spending time with Ashton and now that hes back to work, Ashton doesnt get much dad time in. Were going on a 3 day weekend trip next weekend, i hope that fixes some of it, or else we will spend the weekend not very well off if Ashton is clinging to me the whole time and refuses to cooperate with daddy.
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