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Inappropriate behaviour/language. Aibu?

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Beesh · 02/10/2019 22:39

I'm preparing for a flaming here but anyway. Also trying not to drip feed.

This morning I heard my 8 year old ds tell another boy he was going to teabag him. I was obviously livid, told him under no circumstances was he ever to say anything like that ever again and that we would discuss it after school. The bell had just rang and his teacher wasn't there so couldn't talk to her at the time. Plus I wanted to get some information from ds about where he had heard this. When I picked him up we had a chat. He thought it meant putting your bum in someone's face. He said he thought this as another boy pushed him to the ground and squatted over his face saying he was going to teabag him. We had a chat about how this was never OK and how horrible it was to do that to someone etc etc. Ds is no angel, I know this, but I do believe him. He's a terrible liar and I can read him like a book. We are also quite strict with age appropriate games and videos so I doubt very much that he has picked it up from anything online. As I said, I'm not being 'well my little angel would never do this...' I know he messes around and gets in trouble at school and I deal with this when it happens. All previous years it's been that he's the class clown, talks too much, messes about.

As I was angry and actually a bit shocked I messaged his teacher via the app. This is their requested method of contact. I explained that I'd heard him say something inappropriate and that it seems that there's been inappropriate behaviour from another boy, could we meet to discuss this. I did not mention the word teabag, just that it was inappropriate language and behaviour. Her response was that there's 5 boys parents in the class that she wants to meet with to discuss their clash of personalities and behaviour, can we meet next week. Fine. I'm happy to meet and come up with a plan to sort that out with her and other parents. Unfortunately she is now off sick so it won't be until Monday at the earliest. However, I feel that the teabagging is a separate issue and should be discussed sooner. Aibu and blowing this all out of proportion? Her response has me doubting my initial reaction. Maybe this is more common boys messing about type thing. But he's an 8 year old child, I feel this is inappropriate. Should I go and speak to someone tomorrow or wait?

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Beesh · 03/10/2019 18:50

I'll definitely be looking into his use of the switch etc again. I'm just so relieved that it's nothing more. It's still bad behaviour from the boys though so that needs to be addressed. I did go a bit nuts and ranty 😲 but I'm trying to see the funny side, which is me ranting to DP about teabagging for a long time. Then coming back to mumsnet to state that my son was teabagged haha (he wasn't teabagged).

I will literally die of embarrassment if I need to define teabagging to his teacher.

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PuzzledObserver · 03/10/2019 18:54

I’m willing to bet the other boy doesn’t know what it means either.

I learned what it meant from a conversation in my hairdressers. I was 50.

Icantthinkofanewname87 · 03/10/2019 19:15

Sorry but this whole thread has had me in hysterics 😂😂😂 This line set me off ‘I feel that the teabagging is a separate issue and should be discussed sooner’ and I can’t seem to recover 😂😂😂

leomama81 · 03/10/2019 19:21

It was the teabagging in Minecraft that got me - laughed out loud on the train 😂😂

Vulpine · 03/10/2019 19:24

Yeah totes hysterical - kids talking about tea bagging Hmm

Beesh · 03/10/2019 19:25

I'm mortified when I read the op back 😂😂😂

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scpearly1 · 10/09/2021 19:23

hey mums...I play fortnite with my niece...I actually love the game.
well, i'm pretty wholesome and find myself with a gaggle of kids who like to play with me...from 5-12ish year olds...i've been challenged needing to ask the kids to be on good behavior/no trash talking/cussing etc when i'm on the game bcs i dont like it. I'm not their mum or thier keeper so i can't tell them what to do...i can only set my boundary in that i won't play with them or be in the chat if they are inappropriate in a way i dont like. overall these kids are angels with me and to each other while with me...but when i'm not there, they tend to not play together and do a TON of trash talk...kinda shocking to me when i came on and saw their chat box and the things they say. anyway recently a 24yr old mom of a 5yr old started playing with my group and in my opinion she's inappropriate...one kid was humming a song, she heard it and she and her boyfriend in the background started singing it "can i put my ballsss in your jawwsss". the other kids took that as an ok to sing it too bcs of course to kids it's funny and taboo but she made it ok by encouraging it w/ her bf...i left the chat and later talked to her about it...just saying i dont think its appropraiate for adults to interact w/ kids like that/encourage crude behavior in children. I can tell she thought i was overreacting but she seemed to take the message...then yesteray shementioned teabagging while one of the kids i play with was gaming with us. he loved it and i was shriveling inside...i started googling to figure out if im overreacting? im not a mom, but i helped raise my nieces so do have that instinct...i see this behavior is common but before i make waves with this girl, i wanted some feedback from parents who have probably gone through this...another time her bf was cussing in the background and one of the kids i play with said "language!" 2x...she ignored it...then one of the other kids gave the kid who said "language!" a hard time and she still said nothing...so i stuck up for him saying he's a 10yr old kid and if he doesn't want to hear cussing he shouldbn't have to...i like this lady/girl adult to adult...i do not agree with how she is with the kids she plays with (or her daughter i got to play with the other day...)....not sure what to do...any feedback/experience is welcomed...ps i "gently" talked to her a couple times but i'm getting annoyed that its liek shes messing up the "safe/age appropriate" vibe that used to be in my party whenever kids joined me to play

LakieLady · 10/09/2021 20:03

@Vulpine

Yeah totes hysterical - kids talking about tea bagging Hmm
I'm even more Hmm about "raping" being used as a term for beating someone in a game.

The casual misogyny and minimisation of the most serious sexual assault is fucking disgusting, frankly.

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