the other night I babysat (now) ex's kids just before the breakup. As always, the 5 year old dropped to the floor cried 3 times in 20 minutes over the most minute bullshit. He hurt his pinky, he hurt his knee, and the thrid time, he fell. The third time, he was BAWLING and lied by saying "my brother pushed me". I bluntly told him to stop lying, that I saw what happened and his brother was nowhere near him. And then I said if he wants to continue to act like a baby, fine, but I won't be treating him like one. Ten seconds later, he was FINE and never cried again. If daddy were here, he would have coddled him and babied him AND blamed the 6 year old for making him cry.

I told his dad what happened and I told him that the 5 year old is starting to see that the 6 year old is always used as the scapegoat and he is picking up on it. Hence, the lying. I also told BD that if HE (dad) doesn't stop blaming the 6 year old for everything and continues to treat him differently than the 5 year old, that he will probably grow up and when he is of age, he'll rarely talk to his dad.

dad doesn't like the 6 year olds mom and treats him different because if his aversion to her. The kid can't win. He can NEVER do anything right in the eyes of his dad. Everything his always his fault. Whilst the 5 year old is so perfect to daddy. It's really sickening.

Got a text from the ex today that read "I knew letting u babysit my kids the other night was a mistake. Stay away from me and my kids"

^^^ gotta love it. I hope I at least gave him something to think about.