My DS is 12 and has recently started going out on his bike with friends. He enjoys the freedom and comes back happy each time.
Today he came home and didn’t speak. After tea he went and sat in quiet looking at his phone. We called him to come & watch tv with us & he started screaming and crying telling us to leave him alone. I was worried as he was sobbing & screaming.
Eventually I got him to talk to me & he said a couple of boys had been embarrassing him on snapchat by saying that he had an erection when they were out in the park earlier and it was when he saw a particular girl. They thought this was funny to post on a snapchat group of around ten kids. My DS was mortified and embarrassed as the girl in question is in the group.
He doesn’t normally hang around with this group but they invited him along today and I think he felt good as they are seen as the cool group. Now I think they just like to ridicule him. They also sent him off to look for a football in some bushes for half an hour and no-one helped him. They said he has to go back out tomorrow to find it.
He was so upset he was almost hyperventilating and his eyes were red from crying. I have never seen him so upset. We tried to talk to him about proper friends and how they wouldn’t humiliate him in this way. I just felt so sad for him as he thought they wanted him to join in but really just enjoyed making a fool of him.
Just wanted to vent really and ask how do others help their almost teenage sons have good genuine friendships. My worry is that because he is a little quirky and sensitive that he is going to get picked on by these frankly horrible types throughout his teenage years.
I never want to see him like that again😥