Grandaughter And Some Advice Please

[fruitsalad]

My Grandaughter who is now 10 years of age, upset me this morning, she had messaged me to ask if I was picking her up from school today, her Grandad and myself have had her, nearly, every weekend since she was a baby, last weekend while she was here, I said to her I cannot have you next weekend as Grandad and me, are going for a meal with some friends, and will see you the following weekend, she seemed OK with that, until this morning, when I received her message, when I rang her back, to remind her of this, she put the phone down on me, I let her know she had been extremely rude, and have not heard from her since, obviously she's in school now, so I don't really expect to, her Mother and my Son are no longer together haven't been since she was 5 that being one of the reasons, we have had her most weekends and school holidays, as, has, her Father, the reason being her Mother brought a lot of different men into the house, after splitting with our Son, so we wanted to get her away from that environment, as much as possible, her Mother is now settled again with a man and they have a new baby, I am wondering, if my Grandaughter is punishing me for some reason, I just cannot understand what, when she's here she is mostly lovely, but I don't know how to deal with her rude outburst, it's not the first time, by the way.

[elliemay1]

I definitely wouldn't ignore her either. She's only 10 and coming from a broken home needs understanding & reassurance. As jno has said, you are the adult