DS1, day 2 today, seems to be fine at his new secondary. Oh, apart from the fact 3 lots of homework (2 days worth!) has taken the whole family 3 hours to complete! It was exercise book covering and I do feel that seeing as they have to look at these books every week for a year they want to do it properly and -ahem- nicely, hence MAKING him think about what he was doing.
Anyway, casually this afternoon he mentioned that another boy, ex of his primary whom he sort of knows (DS only did Y6 at said primary) asked DS if he could use DS's locker to store his PE kit. And I've gone off on one, a bit! Thing is, I know I'd've liked DS to ask why this other DS didn't have his own locker (lost key? (already??), forgotten key? Lack of foresight in ordering his own locker?); How long he proposed to leave his kit in there; I pointed out we pay £25 for this sodding locker; it isn't that big and is rapidly filling (with DS's PE kit as much as anything!) but by the end of my 'Why you should have said NO' rant I was citing fellow Y10s, when he's a Y10- hiding knives there etc!
I should point out that DS1 is small and not particularly 'street'.
I settled on an 'assertiveness versus aggression versus compliance' lecture. But I banged on for 20 minutes! No sound-bites here, I'm afraid!
... and breathe.