6 Year Old Son Being Bullied

Hope everything goes well with this delicate situation. So happy this little man knows exactly what he is ✨

I wanted to share something wonderful that happened Tuesday morning.

My 6 year old son is being bullied by another boy at school. I'm not a helicopter parent, but I did bring it up with his teacher and she assured me it was being dealt with. At the same time these are 6 year old boys and I'm trying to keep a healthy perspective. I thought it was being handled but then Monday morning a neighbor came over to say she saw this same boy hitting my son's head. The neighbor was dropping off her two kids when she saw this happen on the playground and that there was no supervision so she intervened until the bell rang. I went and met with the VP right after finding out, and I decided on Tuesday morning to drive the big guy to school and keep an eye myself.

I work shifts, and had just finished a 12 hour night shift, I leave for work at 7pm and get home about 8am....school starts at 8:15 and is just 5 minutes away. My biggest concern is that my son will feel ashamed and like he doesn't have value, I have this concern because this is how I remember feeling when I was his age. I've given him some coping strategies, told him to stand up for himself and how he is allowed to protect his space....not to hit the other boy, but to fix his jaw and get mad and use his hands to keep the other kid away.

Anyway Tuesday morning as I'm getting ready to leave the house with him I stood on the stairs going down to the entry with him at the top so we're eye to eye. I told him how much Mommy and Daddy love him and not do worry about what this other kid thinks, I even said "he's a dummy poo-poo head".

Then I asked him: "You know what you are"? I was expecting him to say "I'm an amazing boy" which is something I say to him often, but not as often as I should. He knocked me for a loop though....instead of telling me that he's an amazing boy he said: "I'm a child of God". I almost choked up, and I gave him a huge hug.

I wanted to share something wonderful that happened Tuesday morning.

My 6 year old son is being bullied by another boy at school. I'm not a helicopter parent, but I did bring it up with his teacher and she assured me it was being dealt with. At the same time these are 6 year old boys and I'm trying to keep a healthy perspective. I thought it was being handled but then Monday morning a neighbor came over to say she saw this same boy hitting my son's head. The neighbor was dropping off her two kids when she saw this happen on the playground and that there was no supervision so she intervened until the bell rang. I went and met with the VP right after finding out, and I decided on Tuesday morning to drive the big guy to school and keep an eye myself.

I work shifts, and had just finished a 12 hour night shift, I leave for work at 7pm and get home about 8am....school starts at 8:15 and is just 5 minutes away. My biggest concern is that my son will feel ashamed and like he doesn't have value, I have this concern because this is how I remember feeling when I was his age. I've given him some coping strategies, told him to stand up for himself and how he is allowed to protect his space....not to hit the other boy, but to fix his jaw and get mad and use his hands to keep the other kid away.

Anyway Tuesday morning as I'm getting ready to leave the house with him I stood on the stairs going down to the entry with him at the top so we're eye to eye. I told him how much Mommy and Daddy love him and not do worry about what this other kid thinks, I even said "he's a dummy poo-poo head".

Then I asked him: "You know what you are"? I was expecting him to say "I'm an amazing boy" which is something I say to him often, but not as often as I should. He knocked me for a loop though....instead of telling me that he's an amazing boy he said: "I'm a child of God". I almost choked up, and I gave him a huge hug.

One of the most harmful things that we do to a society, is to require our necessary violence be done by someone else.
We should all be ready to not only defend ourselves, but also the weak and defenseless.
Requiring our defense be done by others is how we end up with over reaching govco authority invading our personal lives and encroaching on our personal freedom.

Do you think a parent should go to the playground and rough up the kids that bully their kid?

That's an awesome response on the part of your son!
What has his Dad said and done about the situation? Has he also talked with the school administrators?
Has your family prayed for the boy who is bullying your son? Obviously, there is something giving him stress that he likes to take out on your boy.
I will pray that you and your son have peace and safety really soon!!!

You bring up an excellent point, about praying for the other boy....which I did not do. In prayer I do frequently ask for peace and security and well being, or words to that effect, but maybe I do need to be more specific. You're gonna get me to watch all of the movie War Room I think.

Oh, and I am the Dad of the boy....I guess that isn't necessarily clear with my username. And I should add that there hasn't been an issue now for about 2 weeks thankfully, my son says the other boy is leaving him alone. He did complain that 'he looks at me' and I told him that's fine....don't look at the other boy and you won't know whether he's looking at you or not.