Since joining reception in September my DS has been involved in a lot of situations where various kids (him included) are showing ‘private parts’ to one another. I cannot work out if DS is the instigator or not, or even what is true or not as this is of course a memory of a 4 year old.
Each week at a very random time of day (eg bedtime) he will tell me about a time when it’s happened. He seems to tell me weeks after it has happened and it seems a lot of the time the teachers don’t even realise it’s happened as the kids are alone in the toilets together.
DS went to nursery from being age 1-4 and never did anything like this in nursery or out, so whilst I can’t be certain, I feel like this is behaviour he’s learned at school. He’s a great kid but also can easily get incredibly carried away and is very impressionable.
I’m not sure how concerned to be, or how to react when he tells me, I try to be matter of fact and repeat the pants rules, I’ve bought age appropriate books about privacy and reminded him if he has any questions he can ask me, and if it happens again there will be consequences etc. He seems very happy to accept all this at home but I can’t be there at school to remind him.
i don’t know if I’m drawing too much attention to it all but at the same time I really do not want this to continue. Any suggestions on how to handle this that have worked in the past?