Just very unsure - advice please

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My DS is in yr1 and goes to after school football club with mixed years.
He is quite vocal at home but outside tends to be quiet. He is quite sensitive and in some ways quite naive.
Today he was wearing a football kit from a few seasons ago of an international club club. Three boys boo'd him throughout and told him that it wasn't a very good team.

I suffer heavily with anxiety and one of my 'things' is that I'm always worried about what I'm doing is right and second guessing myself.

I'm so confused to what to tell him to do- walk away? Argue back? Say that he doesn't care?
I'm scared of telling him the wrong thing.

Also what should my response be? If I give him a hug he seems to get even more upset and starts crying.

Ask him if it bothers him and what he'd like to say. Then talk it through with him. Guide him to expressing himself in a controlled constructive way. He might say he's not bothered - you say it's ok to have hurt feelings and to say that (to you, a teacher, the other children).

You can also tell the other children that is 'not a nice thing to say'. They need to be aware. I suspect they're showing off in front of each other and a bit of pack mentality has set in.

Well what does he want to do? Never wear that strip again (fair enough)? Keep wearing it and ignore the comments (also fair enough)? He has to learn to handle these things in a way he's comfortable with - obviously with your support, but he's not you, he won't always respond as you would. Just keep talking to him, work out between you a strategy that he's happy with. Make sure he knows all strategies (within reason - punching the kids probably not an option!) are reasonable.

I would speak to the coach. It's the club's job to quash that kind of thing. A bit of banter is fine...but booing? NO!