Hi, just wondering if anyone else has this with their children?

DS is really VERY badly behaved around DH. Like, to the point that he is always getting in trouble, and is nowhere near that bad when its just him and me during the time DH is at work during the week. I'm beginning to dread weekends cos he's such a little turd!! lol He always talks over DH when he's trying to talk to me (which I know is just for attention) but its very annoying because its not like he is talking cos he has anything to say, he makes noises and screams and squeals - anything to disrupt our conversation. He is just so badly behaved, always does the things he knows he's not allowed to, never does what he's told, ignores us, even walks slower up the stairs in front of us when we are carrying something heavy.. all these things that he doesn't do (well not to the same extreme) when its just him and me.

I know DD1 is having a rough trot at the moment, she is getting her eye teeth at the moment, so isn't sleeping well, and is going through a "Daddy is best" stage at the moment, so she's a shocker when he's home as well, cos she wants to be picked up all the time by him - yet during the week, she's not that bad with me (well until it hits 3pm and everyone sorta goes downhill!) and then because she's doing that - DS decides he wants to be picked up as well and just whinges whinges whinges all the time.

But during the week they are normal kids - have their bad moments of course, but pretty good overall. Like, I seem to be more patient and not yelling as much during the week, but weekends I'm always cranky, yelling and have LESS patience because the kids are just so naughty.

I told my mum about it, and she said that its very unusual because usually kids are better behaved around their fathers?! DH is a bit upset about it, because he doesn't feel that he knows what DS is really like - his true personality - because he acts up and shows off in front of him, like he does when we have people around.

I said to DH that maybe its cos he only sees DS for like, 3 hours or something during the day on week days, and that DS feels that he has to get as much attention as possible during the weekends because he misses out so much on the week days. He doesn't do it for me of course cos he sees his boring old mother every day.. LOL

Could I be on to something, or is this really as unusual as my mother makes out?