I am so sorry to hear this! Your poor little one. I really hope the change of school has helped
May I ask at what point you knew that was what you had to do? Mine hasn’t received physical bullying although threats have been given
Apologies for the late reply
@choccydigestive, we surprised our son with a much wanted new kitten yesterday as a birthday surprise. Spent the day and evening settling him in.
He'd been at the same school from Reception until year 5 when we had to move (didn't really have a choice). He loved it there and the guilt I felt at taking him away from all his friends was immense.
We thought we'd found a lovely primary in the village we moved to. We were obviously hoping he'd make new local friends if we could walk there etc. How wrong we were. It turned out to be full of extremely aggressive overly 'macho' boys, the whole energy of the place was just wrong for him. We knew in our gut pretty quickly we had to move him again, despite the school working with us to try and solve it. I didn't want him going into secondary with these children. And 9-year-old kids should not be getting beaten up on a regular basis, He was being called weak as he wouldn't fight back but we've raised him to be a sensitive, empathetic person who should never follow the crowd and be true to himself. He'd had a pretty charmed life up until this point so I think it was a real shock to the system for him and he definitely needs to learn some resilience but my husband I both agreed it would be wrong to keep him at that school.
He seems much happier at his new place, smaller classes, calmer environment, less competition. Fingers crossed it stays this way but, who knows?!
Navigating childhood with phones and social media is an absolute nightmare (or a hellscape a la JM). I wish I could wave a magic wand and make everything better for your son. It's awful seeing them suffer and knowing there isn't really much you can do about it but try and support them through it. Sadly, our children are learning early on that life is cruel and people are awful.
Love Brian Butterfield, the artist formerly known as hongkonggfuey xx
PS I have an oval head leaning to rotund in these COVID times and I smell of Chole and cats. Triangulate me, baby.
