DC goes to a small prep school which takes 3-6 year olds. Pretty much everyone goes to a small back afterwards.
DC isn’t shy, quite confident but isn’t at all mean.
last year I didn’t notice much as I think they were all too young or the ones I knew were. Over the summer and this term I’ve noticed there’s been a change and 2 who were previously quite friendly with DC have become really not very nice I’m sorry to say. Not to DC that I knew until today but today 3 of them were running a way from DC calling them a baddie and telling DC they couldn’t and physically stopping them going into the play castle thing in the park, pushing him and then all physically holding the door shut (I’ve seen them doing this to other children in various play settings a few times over the summer.
Then one of the trio whom I don’t know awfully well (incidentally know the father who is odious, but that’s another story!). Starts hitting DC in the face with a stick. Obviously I went over at that point and ask him to stop (Dad nowhere to be seen).
It was so awful to witness 💔, DC is my eldest and it is the first time I’ve witnessed this it felt like really bullying. What do you do in these situations?