Not sure whether to be annoyed or concerned

Just buy him some school clothes a year older.
You can''t be that hard up for.
£20 for a school sweater the official one
£10 for some trousers
£10 for some white shirts
£30 for a decent pair of shoes.
You need to stop engaging in her situations that she creates.
You two are just point scoring continually that''s the truth of the situation.
It''s not compulsory that if someone else is acting like a xxxx that you have too also.
It''s called being the fecking bigger person.
You put her in her place by being a proper man.Kid needs a jumper here''s a fecking jumper.Kid needs picking up learn to drive.
Anything constructed bs they wanna whinge and moan and dig about.You shove it back down their throats by just getting on with it quietly.
In the end they''ve got nothing to moan about coz they know there''s no point.
All the best
HRH
HRH x

I don''t know if you can afford to replace the clothes but if you possibly can I think you should.

As haway says, be the bigger person. I suspect that all of this to-ing and fro-ing, cutting, stripping and measuring, not to mention all the muttering which probably accompanies it at both ends is very detrimental to the child. For his sake it would have been best simply and without comment to have bought him the jumper. I know they can be expensive depending on uniform rules (my sons trousers cost £60! And are getting too short..) but maybe the school operates a second hand store, or maybe a friend with a larger boy could hand one down? Both of these were v common in my children''s previous schools and there was no shame attached.

But if you possibly can, get him a new jumper or two. Do it for your son and for your own self respect and say nothing. You and your son will feel better. Who knows what she will feel, that''s not the point.

Good luck x

U6''s ex is a just a tad difficult . But I think the issue here is not whose jumper is bigger, but what fits the kid. It''s a question of keeping an eye open to workout when to buy new stuff rather than engaging with the nutter.

u6c00 wrote:

Last time she allowed him to come home in ''her'' jumper, and I measured up one of ''my'' jumpers against hers and found that mine was slightly bigger. That weekend I also got an email calling me negligent and damaging my son''s education by sending him to school in clothes that were too small and would distract him from his work.

Mmmmmmm and sending him to school with clothes that are slashed is not damaging and did not distract him?

Petty games and using an innocent to attempt one-upmanship and provoke a response.

Hope it smooths itself over soon.

Sad though - what does your son say about it all?

WR x