My husband has joint custody and we have my step children weekends and school holidays so to do something with half the family we would have to purposely leave them at their mums when they are supposed to be with us. For me, my step children are my family, none of us (our shared children included) want to do something fun like days out unless we're all together. Not saying its always been easy, and if their mum wants to include them in activities with her new family we never stop them, or get arsey about it being our weekend etc. Unfortunately in our circumstances my step childrens bio mum clearly favours her children with her new partner and only has days out/holidays when the kids are with us (new clothes/toys/tech/birthday parties etc for new family but not for older children). So we strive to never leave them out.I can’t agree with the ‘if we can’t do it together then we don’t do it’. Obviously there will be times when you can’t do something due to the other parents schedule so why do the other kids have to miss out? I have this argument with my in laws about my nephew. They think my brother shouldn’t do anything or go anywhere on the weekends that my nephew is with his mum. Why should my nieces miss out every other weekend? Who’s to say my nephew isn’t living his best life with his mum? Fair enough a holiday but not days out
If Harry prefers to have spend time with his dad well away from the house so much I think it speaks volumes about the environment!