Sam and I were at Jeff's soft ball game tonight and Sam was playing with some kids that were there for another game. Sam loves playing with kids, but the only way he knows how to engage other kids is to start copying what they are doing. He usually just joins right in their game. He and the other kids were getting leaves and sticks from behind some bushes and then throwing them up into the wind. After it blew away they would run back and get more. This other little boy and his sister that Sam was playing with looked to be about 4 and 6. Twice out of the corner of my eye I noticed that Sam would fall on his face when he came out of the bushes. These first couple of times he just brushed himself off and kept laughing and playing. I thought something was fishy, I mean Sam falls a lot but this was getting ridiculous. As I watched them come out of the bushes I saw the 4 year old little boy let Sam go out first and then shove him as hard as he could. Sam of course went flying for a third time, this time much harder and started bawling."HEY!" I yelled. "You tell him you're sorry!" The boy just ran off, but man was I mad and sad for Sam. Who in the world would want to push my sweet little boy for no reason!! (I know I'm his Mom but seriously!) I felt so sad for Sam.
I'm sure Sam will be pushed many more times and I won't be there to make the bully say sorry. As a Mom, I am not a fan of this part of growing up.
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I've had the same kind of thing with Aydin. Makes me so mad, but the other day a big kid stole a toy from her at Bounce and she fought back. She tried to push him off, but that didn't work and he pushed back so she slapped him clean on the face! It was great! I could hear it from 5 feet away ( : I usually don't let her go that far, but he was so big.
Poor Sam!
There is a kid like that in Mason's kindergarten class, who tries to fight all the other 5 & 6 year olds.
It makes me wonder how these children are raised, when all they want to do is be agressive. Sad.
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