8 year old DS has been picked on by one boy a lot since going into Y3. The same boy he was friends with up till now. This other boy makes stupid comments about his footie skills, about things he gets wrong - calls him an idiot, slow claps. That sort of stuff. Ironically, DS is very sporty and academic, so there's probably something around that.
It culminated in him coming out crying one day, and the teacher taking a hand and getting involved. But then, the next day DS comes home and says a) the boy still doing it b) started saying all these other kids are also picking on him.
While I can believe the former, I am not sure the latter is true. I think he might be sensitive.
I don't want to disbelieve him, nor do I want him to get overwrought about every thing the others say to him. Kids aren't always very nice.
Obviously, if it feels 'real' in a week or so, I'll go to the teacher.
But how I can handle this and help him? How should he react to the other kids? How do Imake him more resilient?
(For information - he's not always the most flexible of kids. He likes to do things his way. That might not be helping him. But equally, he has one very close boy friend in the class, another fairly good boy friend, and two girl friends (but they don't play at school, only on play dates). I,e, he's not without friends)