My 8 year old son is persistantly complaining about people bullying him at school, I have been in to see the head many times and the longer it goes on the more it is looking like he is exagurating about some of it (not all of it), for instance he told me some year 5's dragged him across the school field and shoved his face into the ground...turns out he was chasing a girl (a girl he is absolutely obsessed with and has been for nearly 2 years) and he fell over when he ran into someone.
He came charging out of school today demanding that I take him out of the school and saying he will not be going back tomorow, said he's had problems all day and allsorts happen to him...I got him to calm down and explain and all he could come up with was that he got the blame for some mess that was on the carpet, a girl told him to shut up at one point (he started to cry at this point) and a kid keeps talking to him when he's trying to get on with his work.
So, despite the pettyness of it I went in to see the teacher after school who told me she'd asked my son earlier how he was getting on with everyone and he replied "everything is great". We then mentioned this girl he is fixated with and he burst into tears saying she wants to play with him and he's doing nothing wrong. we calmed him down and the teacher/support worker asked how things were with his dad...(we live seperately and he doesnt have a good relationship with him) and again he started to cry...the teacher sat him on her knee and asked if he would like to do some work on 'feelings' with her tomorow, he said he would. He admits that he does annoy people sometimes on purpose but cant say why. He has few friends.
He is so sensitive, he is still upset about the tsunami, he is worrying about the prospect of world war 3, he keeps asking about which countries would be likely to invade Britain and what weapons we have....today he told me he is worried that he would be a crap father (remember he's only 8), he later had tears in his eyes as he told me he thinks his 6 year old brother will not make a good father to his kids as he hasn't had a good enough role model in his own dad...
He says he's having re-curring dreams about aliens...
He's seeing a councellor once a week, I'm wondering if I should take him to see the doctor, I'm so worried about him, his mind-set seems to be getting worse.