My 9 year old son is quite different to the other kids at school, he's obsessed with rock music and likes the write his "book" etc but ALL the other kids play football on a playtime and dinner time.
When DS got sick of having nobody to play with he began playing football too for a while but deep down he hates it, he's frightened to death of getting hurt for a start, he's dyspraxic so no good at sports and often got shouted at and pushed around by the other boys for ruining the game.
Eventually he stopped pretending that he liked football and stopped playing. Now however he has nobody to play with again and I found out from another child that DS started shouting in the middle of the playground that nobody cares about him and nobody likes him.
He can be a bit of a drama queen but I tried to explain that shouting in the middle of the playground will only get him teased/bullied.
He said he's sick of having nobody to play with (even his best friend plays football) but he doesn't want to start playing football again.
How do/can I deal with this? as far as I can see he has 2 options...either play by himself or join in with the football.
I've told him I'm proud that he's not a sheep and doesn't follow the others with the football just because its "expected of boys" and that I'm glad he's different. He's pleased with that but even so it makes me sad to think of him sat by himself at playtimes.
Do I get involved at all or leave it?
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MrsSnape · 01/03/2008 15:44
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