Ds kissed another boy

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Ds1 is % (6 in May) and I would say is average on an affection scale.

Last Friday, in football, he kissed his friend (who is also in the same school class) From what I could see from the side lines, they were playing around, and suddenly his friend pushed him away, and kept avoiding him for the rest of the session. I thought at them time, that ds had coughed and forgotten to put his hand over his mouth. Ds wasn't the same during the rest of the session, not interested in what the coach was telling him etc.

It was only when we got home, and I just gave him a big cuddle, that he sobbed his heart out He told me that he kissed friend, and basically his friend "went mad" (ds words) Told ds that he smelt of wee, and didn't want anything more to with him, and to keep away.

We had a little chat about kissing friends (because some friends might not like it), and to save our kisses for family. But ds is really worried about the name calling, and what will happen when he goes back to school.

I'm hopinh half term will mean it gets forgotten about, but any advice would be appreciated.

sorry, ds1 is 5

need to sort dinner now, will be back later

Oh your poor Ds :(

At that age it will all have been forgotten about by the time school opens again.

I concur - a week is a long time in the life of a 6 yr old!

How crap.

I would imagine that it will all be forgotten. If you have the friend's mother's number then perhaps give her a call to see how the land lies, and also perhaps tell the other child his behaviour was horrible.

Don't call the other Mother...you don't know how reasonable she is...you might make it worse.

Tell DS that some kids aren't like him in that they show their affection and that' why it's best to keep kisses for family.

Yeah, only if you know she isn't rabidly homophobic. Odd that a 6yo has this mindest, unless he has older siblings or homophobic relations.

I'm sure a 6-year old boy would have pushed a girl away as well, judging by the reaction of the year 2 boys to 'kiss-chase' in our playground!

agree with Pixie. My sister used to make a face when my mother kissed her and vigourously wipe at wherever Mum had kissed her!

I'm back

Thnaks for the advice.

We're quite good friends with the parents (socialise together with and without the dc), and I know they're going away this week.

However, I've remember a few weeks ago (again at football practice) when her ds2 was sitting on a male neighbours knee (her neighbour, and he was there as his dd goes to football) and they were messing around. The mum called ds2 back over to her, and whispered to me "I don't want the ds to sit on mens knees" I thought it was a little odd at the time, bearing in mind that the man in question was a long-time neighbour, and all the dc play together.

On the flip side of this, I've previously thought that ds has this particular friend on a bit of a pedestal. So although ds has been hurt, it has certainly taken the shine of his friend, iyswim.