Being a bully is not a good look!
So, my son is getting bullied in school. And like many concerned parents my husband and I stressed about it endlessly. What affected us most was seeing him come home unhappy and anxious every day. What was really happening in the class that all he talked about as soon as he stepped off the bus was how so and so was hitting him, so and so was pinching him in the bottom, so and so was taking away his stationery, breaking it, throwing it away, and so and so was teasing him. What broke my heart was the fact that he said he had no best friend, no one to talk to in class. Why Mama why, he asks me daily and why oh why I ask myself everyday seeing him struggle to fit in, to be a part of the popular group who refuse to include him in their shenanigans. I don't do anything to provoke them he says when I question him if inadvertently he has done something to alienate this "popular" group of boys. I just want to play with them but they don't let me. Every...