The incompetence, the cluelessness, every year, right on schedule.
Just a quick vent, but this time of year, every year, my dumb husband asks my stepkid what are her plans for the summer... And like he really means it literally, not just what are her hopes or what is she looking forward to doing, but he's asking has her mom's side of the family signed her up for summer camp or is she going to be staying with her maternal grandparents or what.
This year he waited until my SK has just a couple days left in the school year, and then he acted surprised to find out that it's too late to registered her for any of the high quality educational summer programs.
When his kid inevitably isn't sure what she's doing this summer, because she's a child and it's not her job to keep up with that kind of stuff, he'll ask me if I know about any summer camps or day camps.
As if I just know that kind of thing off the top of my head, when my oldest kid isn't even in kindergarten yet.
I used to research that stuff for him in the first couple of years of our marriage, but he would always complain that they're too expensive or that the hours or location were inconvenient, or he'd wait until April or May to bother trying to register and it would be all booked up. So I stopped.
He obviously doesn't care enough to find summer childcare for his oldest kid, and neither does his ex-wife, but it is 100% not my problem, especially now that I have 3 of my own children to take care of.
I feel bad for her when her dad makes it obvious that he doesn't put a lot of thought or effort into raising her, but I can't fix their relationship and I can't make him be a better parent. All I can do is be kind and thoughtful to her when she's here.