6 year old ds and low level nastiness

[iamnotaprincess]

There is a boy in ds' class who is oftne mean to ds, nothing major, sometimes calls him "boring", pretends he wants to play with him and then snarls, "NO, I AM NOT PLAYING", is oftne angry, shouts, pulls him by the sweater, always wants to be the leader,etc. Little things that are annoying but if they are constant they can be soul destroying I guess. The teacher said she never noticed anything, the playground staff said the same, but the boy when asked by the teacher said it is true.

Ds loves school, academically at the top, confident, happy, I really could not ask for more, on and off, he tells me about how mean this boy is, that he wished he went to a different school. The teacher says she will keep an eye on the situation, but tbh the meaness only takes place in the playground, a bad word here and there, difficult to detect. What would you do? Some friends tell me that this is normal and as long as ds is happy, then I should not worry...

[losingtheplotthisweek]

As unpleasant as it is for your DS I think that it is fairly normal to have at least one obnoxious child in a class,(as it is in workplaces!).Is your DS the only child that this irritating but perhaps troubled boy picks on?

If his behaviour is pretty general and your DS is not the only child affected that I think this is pretty normal.My DSS's have both had children in their classes throughout school who are not easy to get on with and who occasionally wind my DSS's up a bit.

My DS is 4 and has a girl in his class who calls him stinky etc,and was moaning about it at dinner a few weeks ago.DSS1(9) told DS 'some people just arent very good at being friends,just ignore them and play with someone who is!'. Seemed like pretty sound advice,and good preparation for all the annoying people he will encounter throughout his life.