My ds was bullied by his older cousin for about a year. It seems to have stopped now for the past 6 months but we are constantly monitoring the situation. My ds never seemed to be aware that he was bullied he was 4.5 when it started but my dh and I believe he was. Examples of what his cousin did were asking him to play football and hitting him repeatedly with the ball, telling him his best friend was dead, hitting him on the head repeatedly with apples, excluding him from games.
We have tried to keep them apart as much as possible but with family gatherings and visits to grandparents it is not always easy without looking like the baddie.
Now my MIL wants to bring my ds to his cousins house for a visit, she knows what happened and has told me she will keep an eye on things but I feel that she misses things and my nephew knows he can manipulate her he is 11, my ds is now 6.
Should I give the cousin and my MIL a chance but I am so afraid of my DS being hurt.Most of the bullying occured when my ds was in my MIL's house but she did tell me about it.
I do not want to be overprotective and maybe he should be given a second chance