My just turned three year old nephew goes to a weekly football 'class'. He enjoys it although obviously it's not hugely structured at their age.
My DF usually takes him, but I take him when my DF is away on holiday, which he is next week.
For the last three weeks another little boy has made my DN cry. The first time was the other little boy taking my DN's ball out of his hands. DN cried, the other boy's DM told him to give him the ball back and say sorry. Fair enough, that was that.
Then two weeks ago the other child kicked my DP. Tears and sorry again, and it was put down to them being little kids. This week, the boy pulled the ball out of DN's hands again, and them hit him in the face. DN was sobbing, and the boy's DM came over, took him outside, came back in, made him say sorry, and apologised to my DF, saying she couldn't get to her son in time to stop it happening.
DF has said that the other boy only seems to hassle my DN, but I think that might be that DF is only watching DN. Anyway, DN is now reluctant to leave DF's side when he's there, which is a shame because he was really enjoying it and getting into it. I'm taking him next week and asked today if he was looking forward to going with me, and he said he doesn't want to go. I am going to take him, obviously, but I don't know what to do if this other little boy makes him cry again.
Apparently the coach did see him being hit in the face and DF spoke to him about it, but they're toddlers so I suppose the coach can't do much about it.
I suppose I'm just asking for advice on how to handle this, especially if anything happens next week?