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Originally Posted by [MERIT]
He's 8, and not a fan of talking on the phone. Hoping the future holds better things.
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^ Yeah, boys of that age just aren't naturally talkative, so a phone conv is always going to be a bit unsatisfactory. Treating him well is the best thing you can do at the moment: I'd also recommend resisting the temptation to bad-mouth the mother too much. That just generates a tension that the boy is too young to handle, (though I'm ashamed to say that I did it a few times myself).
At one stage I also had a lot of nice Lego-building sessions with my son, plus visits to all the local parks. On rainy days we had HotWheels races: buy a bit of pipe, prop one end up on books, divide your cars into two teams and take turns letting them run out the pipe and across the floor. Winner of course is the car that gets the furthest...