Poll on phone calls
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For those of you with court ordered phone cal times :
how often is the other parent allowed to call?
What days of the week?
What is the protocal if the parent can't get through?
BM has been taking the kids cell phone and powering it down for the whole visitation (a week in the summer)
Normally my boyfriend just mumbles about it, and refuses to call BM phone to talk to the kids (because she its high conflict and just wants to fight)
But it is really starting to get to him, and he either wants to take away the kids phone and deal with calling BM or go back to court to add in a damn little phone call claus....
BM rang 60 times last week.
BM rang 60 times last week. SO ignored the majority. I only wish the bitch would cut back. He never gets the opportunity to try to contact the skids, with her ringing all the time. He just says to put the kids on the phone. How I wish we had your problem.
My exH has court ordered
My exH has court ordered phone calls. He can call every night before 7 pm. If I miss the call, I will usually text him back and let him know when I get that I missed it. If my kids don't want to talk, I pick up and say that (nicely like "Sorry, they are playing with their friends right now, they might call back when they are done."
Basically, just be polite and respectful of the fact he is trying to be in their lives. I might hate the man but they are his kids too and they love him.
We had once a week calls
We had once a week calls ordered, with the kids required to call their Dad within a specific window on a specific day. They did so religiously. Quite frequently (maybe 60-70% of the time?), there would be no answer, and no return call when they left a message. He tried to claim that I never had them call, but I shot that down in a heartbeat with phone records showing calls every week.
When they were with him, I was allowed a similar schedule - with me calling them. Pretty much the same story - no answer, no call back. (Note - I only called if they were there longer than a week.) My youngest actually went to a neighbor's and asked if she could use their phone to call me, as her Dad wouldn't let her. Sad.
Well what we have now is BM
Well what we have now is BM calling almost every night, definately ever other night. And (the kids said) if BM does not get to talk to them, just once, she turns the phone off for the entire visit.
So, hold on, she "punishes"
So, hold on, she "punishes" them by turning off her phone if they miss a call? :? Am I reading that right?
Yes. BM punishes the kids for
Yes. BM punishes the kids for missing a phone call from her while at their dads, by turning off the phone at BM place so their dad can not talk to them while she has them.
She punishes the kids. Withholding their ability to talk to their dad and has told them it is because they missed a call from her while they were at their dads.
The kids live with their dad. Dad pays for the phone. BM gets visitation. Eowe during school year, eow during summer.
WOW! That is special.
WOW! That is special. :O
wow this is news to me i did
wow this is news to me i did not know there was such a thing as court order phone calls.
my kids father calls my boys anytime he wants and my sd BM calls everytime skid is at our us.
my ex husband don't make it a habit of calling all the time but if he wants to talk to kids he can and vice versa i try not to call his house when my kids are there since i figure he has them a lot less then me i dont want to impose on his parenting time.
BMs of skid acts as if she cant be seperated form her kid who is now 13 . she can not go a day with out contacting skid when we have her its weird to me she will call and tell her she misses her blah blah blah give me a break kid just left. now that she bought skid a cell phone i hope she stops calling our house phone.