I have a baby (18 months now) and for the past few months, I’ve witnessed some horrible behaviour and comments from boys (aged 8/9/10.)
It normally happens at a park. A boy will say to me, completely unprovoked, ‘ew I hate babies.’ I’ve had boys try and scare my baby by making horrible faces, and deliberately trying to upset him. And today it happened again, the boy was being nasty to my baby (who’s thankfully unbothered), I told him that’s not very nice and then he climbed up to the climbing frame and threw his toy sword down right next to where we were standing. I can only assume he was trying to hurt my son but he missed and looked disappointed with himself.
I’m a first time mum and this has really blew my mind. If it had happened just once with just one child I wouldn’t over think it, but it’s been 3 or 4 times now. What’s worse is the parents of these boys are often not in ear shot because they’re of the age where they can play more independently. I guess I’m intrigued as to what others think about this and why it is that boys act like this as opposed to girls.