My son (only child, 7 y.o.) is suddenly getting very re-attached to me. Under some circumstances where I have to go on an errand and he has to stay home with DH, or when (like this evening) when he and his Dad go out and I stay home...my son will burst into tears, and say I miss Mama, I want to be with Mama....he seems really broken up about it. I mentioned to him tonight that sometimes when he's with me, he cries that Daddy's not around. To which he burst out crying, saying he wanted all THREE of us to go on the errand.
We are frequently separate, as DH works a mostly regular scheduled day job, and I am a WAHM/SAHM/HSing Mom. We have one car and no money for activities where he's away from us, except for his new school (see below). So that means he is frequently with one parent or another. We are trying to keep our heads above water financially. My son has never known me to work OUTSIDE of the home so he has nothing to compare with, but to him, I think he really hates it that we alternate parenting....that is to say on M, W, and F nights DH is "on duty" so I can work and on Tu and Th nights, I am "on duty" so DH can work, and on weekends it's a big tug of war because we only have one car so activities are a juggling act.
As for life changes, he started a new school a few months ago. His first school. It's basically homeschoolers that got together to form their own democratic free school. They only meet two days per week from noon to 5 pm. He LOVES the school and has made a real good friend there (she's 8). He likes all of the six kids in the school (ranging from age 7 to age 14).
Today when DH went to pick DS up from school (this is a job that I usually have, but today I stayed home to work...I am an artist), they had to run errands afterward. My son was in tears saying he had been away from me for 5 hours and now he wanted to see Mama. Anyway, several cell phone calls and many tears later, they finally went. As I suspected, all went well and he had an OK time on the errand and they just called from the car; they are on the way home and my boy bought himself a toy with his allowance...he's happy as a clam.
He's been very "emotional" lately (his words) and we've been working on getting him to bed earlier, because it could be that he's tired. Or maybe it's the big huge changes of being in a school all of a sudden, esp. with older kids even though they are WONDERFUL kids and it's a wonderful school....I'm just wondering if the big changes are sort of rattling him a little. Or whether it's an age thing....like he's not sure whether he's Mama's little boy any more or a big boy. Confusion.
Any thoughts? They just pulled into the driveway so I dont have time to edit and review this...hope it makes sense....
We are frequently separate, as DH works a mostly regular scheduled day job, and I am a WAHM/SAHM/HSing Mom. We have one car and no money for activities where he's away from us, except for his new school (see below). So that means he is frequently with one parent or another. We are trying to keep our heads above water financially. My son has never known me to work OUTSIDE of the home so he has nothing to compare with, but to him, I think he really hates it that we alternate parenting....that is to say on M, W, and F nights DH is "on duty" so I can work and on Tu and Th nights, I am "on duty" so DH can work, and on weekends it's a big tug of war because we only have one car so activities are a juggling act.
As for life changes, he started a new school a few months ago. His first school. It's basically homeschoolers that got together to form their own democratic free school. They only meet two days per week from noon to 5 pm. He LOVES the school and has made a real good friend there (she's 8). He likes all of the six kids in the school (ranging from age 7 to age 14).
Today when DH went to pick DS up from school (this is a job that I usually have, but today I stayed home to work...I am an artist), they had to run errands afterward. My son was in tears saying he had been away from me for 5 hours and now he wanted to see Mama. Anyway, several cell phone calls and many tears later, they finally went. As I suspected, all went well and he had an OK time on the errand and they just called from the car; they are on the way home and my boy bought himself a toy with his allowance...he's happy as a clam.
He's been very "emotional" lately (his words) and we've been working on getting him to bed earlier, because it could be that he's tired. Or maybe it's the big huge changes of being in a school all of a sudden, esp. with older kids even though they are WONDERFUL kids and it's a wonderful school....I'm just wondering if the big changes are sort of rattling him a little. Or whether it's an age thing....like he's not sure whether he's Mama's little boy any more or a big boy. Confusion.
Any thoughts? They just pulled into the driveway so I dont have time to edit and review this...hope it makes sense....
