Kids Mental and Emotional Health

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How do I deal with my ex telling my kids constantly that he can’t wait until they come home. The way that he terms it is that his house is the only home that they have. Anytime the kids talk about going home when they’re with me he corrects them and says that’s mom‘s house. Your home is here. How do I manage this or deal with this? I think it bothers me more than it bothers the kids so much but I do know it affects the kids. I’ve asked them about it where I’ve said you do know that you have two homes you have one with mom and one with Dad. They have space in both. And the kids always say yeah we know mom, but you can tell that they don’t like that happens but they’re young so it’s hard for them to speak up and their dad gets really angry with them when they do say something. I think I’m just looking for advice on how to deal with this with the kids and how to deal with this with him. I have the kids less time it’s kind of it’s a 38/62 split and for my time with the kids that I do have them and they’re like 7 to 10 days sometimes 12 day stretches and in the summertime I have half of each month, but he he’ll constantly be texting them and calling them telling them that he misses them so much and he is lost without them and he can’t wait till they come home and things like that and I don’t feel like that’s really healthy for the kids to be being spoken to like that from their father. I’m just looking for some advice on how to handle it and how to approach it if anybody’s got any recommendations, that would be great because anytime I have brought something like this up to him it turned into an issue and him losing his mind.

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 2:15 PM UTC

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