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How to handle this? SEN child swearing

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WillowB · 08/10/2020 22:38

DS 8 attends cubs each week. The last 2 weeks he has come home complaining that a child in the group has been swearing. After a bit of digging on my part, the child concerned has ADHD and behavioural issues. This week he apparently told another child to 'f#ck off you pile of sh#t'. I'm not particularly sensitive but to be honest I'm not happy about DS hearing this kind of language on a weekly basis.
DS says that the leaders have threatened a few times to send the child home but they seem to largely shrug it off.
WIBU to raise this with the leaders of the group. I don't want to be 'that parent' and I understand that this child may find group situations tricky but this just doesn't sit right with me.

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OrangeSamphire · 10/10/2020 06:42

What you say may be the right approach @lakesidewinter but that is for the child’s parents and the club leaders to sort out between themselves.

It is not for the OP to step in and ‘have a quiet word’ (god how I HATE that phrase, everyone knows what that means).

The OP needs to concentrate on her own child, supporting them to learn about the glorious variety of people they share a world with and how to exist among them in an open minded, self-contained way.

HandfulofDust · 10/10/2020 07:44

The group leaders sound like they already know this is happening. If it's especially upsetting your child but they don't feel confident speaking up then yes tell the group leaders.

When I was a cub leader we had two children with SEN who were very hard to handle. Both had lovely parents and their other siblings were well behaved so it definitely wasn't a case of poor parenting. The thing is though it's just incredibly difficult to sort out this behaviour, Their parents have the help of trained experience and years of hard work and practise and still haven't managed it. We weren't trained professionals we're just volunteers with 15 others kids to keep an eye on.

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