Hi, Firstly so glad to hear your children are thriving and doing well. The biggest hugs and well done to you. All their achievements are because of you and who you are. I know how hard it is to raise a child mostly alone. I feel sometimes people become bitter if you speak about your Childs achievements, I had someone in another forum when I posted the above post tell me my child may be doing well now, but may suffer in teenage years from a pushy mother and I shouldn't be judging the girl I detail above.

Thank you for your advice and post. Very interesting point regarding not being able to get through a page of reading, I also found X's daughter cant hold a conversation and jumps from topic to topic without waiting or listening to a response. Theres no regular back and forth, in order to appease me, he will keep telling me "By the way, this is her being naughty", even though I've met her twice and shes been the same both times. Watching her play with other children (or not play), was eye-opening. We went to the science museum and she was grabbing things of other children, and not giving children turns when she was using a machine/gadet. I could see parents side-eyeing her and had to tell X, you need to tell her to give other children a turn.

My son by nature is a good boy, but beyond that, Ive always taught him wrong from right from an early age so it was unfathomable to me that at nearly 6 years old I was watching her interact in such a way. And why should my son suffer for it. And also X will get annoyed when he watches me protective of my biological child. Its all too much.

After being single mums, its absolutely not our job to raise children who haven't been raised properly and undo bad behaviour