I don't know if it's just a boy thing or not, but is it normal for elementary boys to be fighting almost all the time (age range 9 - 12)? For example my son is 10 and has something new every other week at school. When I confronted the teacher's they always say stuff like, "It's nothing we can't handle".."Why?" Most of the time its start off as a joke to everyone involved, then it seems to get outta hand when someone gets hurt. They play so aggressively..for example, knocking the tarts out of each other's heads, or who can show off the most in the playground. If they're having a mental quiz challenge (sometimes girls are included, but most of the time it's the boys who end up getting off at each other physically). One time it was over a small issue, like who gets to sit next to who, and it was between my son and some kid over some girl. They eventually settled it in the playground, and the teachers had to pull them apart (I didn't even know kids this age even had the thing to set time and place for fights). My son ended up having bruises on his leg and the other kid a bleeding hand. The teacher told me and his parents that they both went at it together. Also why does violent seem like a joke to them as well. It's like one minute they're so upset, and another they're cool, then it starts all over again. It's starting to freak me out. After all I use to think that boys would only be violent if their male authority figures were, but his Dad, and grandpa isn't like that, so what's the deal? My husband keeps saying, they're just being boys, but c'mon...violence is never normal. So am I just been over-protectively paranoid or should I be concern? "GROWN MEN" out there "who were once boys"...what's going on here? Will they grow out of this, like my husband keeps saying, or should I get some help now?
2006-12-11
04:17:49
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