I was beaming with pride last night. I bought Benjamin his first Thomas train set for his birthday. After I spent 30 minutes setting the track up perfectly to fit his little bedroom play table, he spent an hour choo chooing the trains around.
This morning (like every Monday) his father came to pick him up. I called this afternoon to see how they were doing.
“Oh, we’re great!” Ex says, “he’s playing with Thomas right now and watching an Elmo movie.”
“What?,” I press, “He’s playing with his new Thomas track? At your house? You took the entire set with you?”
“Yeah, is that a problem?”
Sigh. Now I have to set it up again so it fits on the table. And what if the pieces get lost? And…well, should there really be such major toy transfers for a 24 hour sleep over at Dad’s? And isn’t that kind of like cheating? Taking the toys I got for him … knowing full well that had he missed them for 24 hours he would have come home all excited and been occupied for hours.
Help! Need advice from other single parents on this one. I guess when Benjamin is older this could be an issue. Explaining to him that – no – you can’t pack up an entire car worth of toys to go to daddy’s. Or, should I let him? Really clueless on this one.
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