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They sent back a different boy!

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After one night with Daddy and the girlfriend James came home a different boy. Again they have bought him a new outfit (never got him a birthday present though!). Again it is BROWN - I hate brown! Of course he loves the Gilet - cos I have one. Orange is nice on him though except that top has one of those slogans on which I hate.

 

Oh and this kid has hair the hairdresser can't get to stay spiky - imagine how awful it feels - she's spiked it using gel and hairspray - probably about half a can. She's a lovely girl but really!

 

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oh no!!

 

And I assume that they know all this and STILL choose to do it when theyr not the ones to have to contend with the outfit on a day to day basis or oversee the washing of the hair!

 

((HUGS)) sent to you!

 

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ps: he looks like a little cheeky monkey with that grin!!!

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Oh the top will just disappear - he cant wear longs sleeves anyway because he chews them - Daddy should remember this, he shouted at him often enough about this!

 

I might have to put up with the gilet but it won't go with most of his clothes - sometimes they send him home carrying the clothes so they still have labels on and go back. I think she buys them and means well.

 

I'll have to have him in the bath with me in the morning - no time for seperate ones!

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I think he looks great :D . It's a pity that his Dad and girlfriend don't appear to respect your taste and opinions about James's clothing and hairstyle, and it sounds like they could have been a bit more considerate, but heck, I'd look at the positive, it's great that they spend some time with him and make a bit of a fuss of him. I know, that can be really difficult if absent Dad is doing the spoiling and impractical stuff and you're left to be the sensible one and provide the discipline and every day mundane just keeping it all together stuff...that's really tough :( .

 

BTW, my lad has a very similar hairstyle...very 8) . Although at 16 Seb is able to do his own hairstyling, thank heavens. I still get the yucky, too much sticky hair gel/wax on the pillowcases laundry to deal with though :shock::lol::lol::lol:

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Rosie sometimes comes back from her dad's with new clothing, some of it nice, some of it.... well :roll: I have managed to get her to make sure that anything he buys has plenty of growing room, otherwise he's wasting his money. It may not be to my taste, but it saves me from shelling out all the time and she seems happy enough wearing it.

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I know it can be really annoying when your child comes back from a ‘visit’ wearing stuff you wouldn’t dream of buying and with a different hairstyle.

 

I brought up my step-daughter from when she was a toddler (her mother left the family home when Helen was 3 - she is now 27). She never really knew her mother but we always encouraged the visits so there would be no regrets later in life. She used to come home looking ridiculous in trendy outfits and way out hair dos. Her mother spent a fortune – I expect it helped her guilty conscience.

 

It turned out that Helen didn’t like them either but she said it was easier to go along with it rather than make a fuss.

 

Children from extended families are betwixed and between as to who they should please. It must be very difficult for them.

 

He does look cute though and at least they haven’t cut his hair. :shock:

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He does look cute though and at least they haven’t cut his hair. :shock:

 

That brings to mind another story.. when Rosie was at nursery, she had a little 'boyfriend', who had the most glorious mop of blond curls. His parents were divorced and things were far from amicable. He came back from one weekend at Dad's with all his curls shorn off and his hair in a grade 1 crop. Poor mum was inconsolable for weeks :(

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Pengy

 

He is cute, wish I had that hair colour rather than courtesy of my hairdresser! (and I love brown!) :D

 

We have the problem on the opposite side of you, OH has 2 daughters from his first marriage. OH's ex has gotten very cross in the past when we have bought them clothes, boots, trainers etc etc. Not sure why she feels like that, shes not the sort of person you can chat to and ask her opinion! :notalk:

 

We instil discipline and values into the girls, their mother more or less lets them do what they like, ie: clothes are dropped and left where they fall, wet towels on beds, no pleases or thank yous, bed time when they feel like it, eat what and when they feel like it and the latest thing.......... 14 yr old daughter has a new boyfriend WHO WAS ALLOWED TO SLEEP OVER LAST WEEKEND!! :shock::shock: Not my kids but I nearly had a heart attack. Am I wrong or just old fashioned?!

 

Kimmy

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He's a sweetie your boy (even in brown!).

 

I have been in a similar situation when OH and I were separated, he kept buying them proper shirts with buttons, when my boys prefer the casual, cotton T-shirt type... I've given them away as they never wore them.

 

The thing I find is that most clothes for boys in the shops are pretty boring... girls have sooo much more choice. My oldest son, for example, loves purple :roll: (so do I...) but it seems good old purple is a girly choice... So most of the time they end up wearing blues, blacks, greys and ... yes, brown! Sometimes we can get away with red. (I bet your little man looks great in reds, with that blond hair and blue eyes!).

 

Having said that, some people (autumn types) can look gorgeous with the nastiest pooey brown. :mrgreen: I can just about get away wearing some sort of 'chocolate' colour... otherwise I look like I've got some liver disease! :oops:

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I look bad in brown because I have sallow skin and it makes me look jaundiced.

 

I don't mind them buying him clothes. But when he goes I make an effort to dress him how Daddy would like him, England 66 T shirt this time. Daddy hardly EVER goes out without wearing a West Ham shirt - when we were together he would get me to buy them for James and James loved wearing them to look like Daddy.

 

Do you think they have ever bought him one of those?? James now has NO football shirts but coms home in a variety of T Shirts in brown and orange!

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I have to say I think he looks great though personally I don't like logo t-shirts either. The majority of tshirts for boys seem to be these days sadly.

To be honest I would appreciate that they actually make an effort which is more than a lot of people do even if its not to your taste. He is his parent too and he could be doing a lot worse.

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