Inappropriate behaviour

Hey all. I have a step son who is 7 years old. Arrangement is 50/50 shared care between dad and mum. His mum has a phone call every other day with him. we have noticed on a few occasions that she refers to him in an inappropriate manner. Yesterday, my partner has taken him for a hair cut. Mum had asked SS if he had been to have his hair cut and asked him to show it on camera. He shown her and did a pose with his fingers on his chin and eyebrow raised and mum referred to him as “sexy”. In the past child has referred to his mum as a “sexy lady” and things of relevance. Child has from time to time and especially yesterday starting holding/ slapping my partners bum and wiggling his private parts in mine and my partners little one (he’s one) and then when I am changing his bum, making comments like “let me see that bum” and slapping it whilst he was stood up and I was getting him changed. This has happened a fair bit but comes and goes. When told not to touch other peoples private’s parts/ bums, his response in the past has been “well my mum lets me slap her bum”. I find all of this incredibly inappropriate. I feel that she is sexualising her son. I would never even dream of referring to my son as sexy or anything of the sort🤢 She treats him more like a friend than she does a son and even so that he feels that he is in charge of everyone. Almost like he is the man of the house when at her home. Surely this isn’t normal right?
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I would honestly speak to him school about this and ask them about any behaviour of this nature within school, and they can do a brief intervention about appropriate behaviour x

That's so weird! I don't think we would even use the word sexy in front of my 7 year old SD let alone call her it! It's definitely not normal! (Or healthy)

How bizarre. Why would a mum refer to their son as sexy?! I would definitely speak to school as Hannah said and see if he behaves like this at school, it’s difficult as he will see it as appropriate behaviour if his mum is acting/saying these things. I would be getting my partner to speak to mum and find out why the hell she’s acting like that with his son! Not normal at all! X

Thank you all! I honestly find it so strange and so very inappropriate. I have mentioned it to my partner and hope that he will speak to the school. It makes me feel sick that a mum would do this to her child and then to see him act they way he does around my son some times, makes me feel very uncomfortable. I won’t be leaving them in a room together again. Xx

1. If you have 50/50 why is she calling on your time? He could have 50% of the time without this weird behaviour at least. 2. Could you have a conversation with SS about accepted behaviours in your home and that these are not accepted at your house even if they are at mummy’s? 3. Get dad to speak to Mum Very very weird!

My partner fought very hard not to have phone calls with mum in our time with SS because they were more abusive and not productive than they were anything else. Court gave dad 50/50 but because she wanted phone calls with him, the court ruled that when child is with one parent for more than 4 days at a time, that parent gets a phone call every other day. It’s very silly. There are lots more problems going on, like Step son keeps telling us he doesn’t see mum really. When he is due to be with her on her weekend/days in the week. He’s always with his mamar (her mum) and his mum is always out (she’s always at raves, or going out drinking etc). Of course it’s her choice what she does, but you would think that she would do that on the weekends and days that SS is with us. But he gets really upset. They recently went to Tenerife for the week and I said to SS, that it would be nice that he gets to spend some quality time with mum which is what he was excited for. He came back to say that

She kept a leaving him with his mamar again, while she and her boyfriend and brother went to las americas all the time. He was sad. This leads to then when he comes to us, having crying sessions before bed that he misses his mum and that he needs to go back to her etc (usually when he doesn’t want to go to bed) or doesn’t like what we have asked him to do/said no) She then sits on the phone and almost gloats that he is missing her and rather than try to calm and let him go off the phone to stop the situation. Sits and makes it worse xx

@Samantha we have both had conversations with SS about behaviours like this, but nothing changes and he finds it funny and laughs. He doesn’t understand what is inappropriate and what’s not. But have even had accusations about my partners brother who he said had grabbed him in his private parts and had a whole investigation into it with Social, just to rule out it never even happened and SS admitted that he lied about it to not get in trouble at school for touching another boys private parts

SS mother is very difficult and without sounding like most step mums talking about bio mums, but is a narcissist and often turns it on herself and says that dad needs to stop messaging her and that he is only trying to start a conversion with her because he is obsessed with her, to deflect from the fact that she has done something wrong, or isn’t doing the right thing/ doesn’t want to talk about it xx

@Samantha so sorry that this is so long of a reply🥺 xx

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