DS has been to a holiday club the last 2 days. He is 11 and from what I saw dropping off and what he’s told me, he was one of the oldest there, it was ran by two men probably late 30’s/early 40’s with the help of three older teens.
Now DS is absolutely no stranger to swear words. He goes the football with DH and hears awful language and we do occasionally swear in front of him. He is in year 6 and whilst he doesn’t swear I’m sure he will say the odd word with his friends. Swear words aren’t a secret naughty hidden thing and he has asks us what some words mean and we’ve explained appropriately and he knows he can ask us about words but he isn’t to use words he doesn’t understand. I know he does sometimes join in with football chants and songs an he will go “hmmm” over the swear word.
He has told me that during holiday club today and yesterday there was a lot of swearing. I asked if it was from the kids and he said no the adults. I pressed to see if it was the teens who were helping and he said it was them but also the two men in charge. Examples he has given have been them talking to each other in conversation saying fuck, fucked, shit and arsed and the teens saying fuck off to each other, saying they’d fuck someone up and when DS saved a penalty they said fuck off keeper when another child said well done keeper. I believe DS 100%. He’s also told DH and the story was the exact same and he doesn’t have any
history of lying or making things up.
He isn’t going back to the holiday club now as I’m off work for the rest of the week. I am just wondering whether I should get in touch with them to make them aware that DS has reported this so they might be a bit more careful especially around younger ones or if I should let the company they work for / platform I booked through know instead? I don’t want a refund or even an apology for it but I do think it’s wrong and needs to be looked in to.
Am I overreacting and being unreasonable to want to bring it to someone’s attention?