Grrr another Nut Job of a parent...

[Octoberbride03]

That's definitely a little over the top!




This is very true. Heck, I think all partner situations in school should be assigned, so that kids have the opportunity to meet and talk with all sorts of other kids! (shy kid here, obviously)

But at first I was confused b/c of the mention of the age group, as the OP said her son was in 5th grade...but then the OP says he's 9, so things must be done differently in Canada. At 9 I was in 3rd grade, and was one of the younger ones.



As someone else said, that's a lot to be putting on a kid... DS and I are sort of in a similar situation...a 9 year old boy and his mom seem to think that DS (6 years old) should be the cornerstone of the 9 yo's social life, and I disagree. I first allowed the friendship b/c I thought the boy was 6 as well, because of his size and maturity level in some ways. But he's 9, I found out too late, and I've realized he's manipulative, he cries "bully" when he simply loses a game or is playing with someone bigger than him (who might be 9 or 10, and he's even gotten angry with DS when DS has done something well or better than the boy), and he tortures bugs while stating that he's "saving" them... I have had to be on alert while they are playing, and that's not relaxing for me!

But he has a really hard time making same-age friends (he glommed onto my son during their Homeschool PE class last year, because DS is a little smaller than him and the other 9/10 year olds are bigger, stronger, and faster, and won't stand for his weird mind games like a 6 year old will). And since DS is his "best friend", he and his mom thought that we'd be over there every day this summer...but we weren't. So she's a bit miffed at me, and her son acted really aloof last time we saw them.

Sigh.

No advice, just empathy from someone who is slightly sort of there with ya.

Here I thought the OP was right on for the ages. I'm surprised you were 9 in 3rd grade. I was 9 in 4th grade and I was one of the older kids in my class(Jan. birthday).

As for the boy's mom. WOW! She's a doozy. Good luck at TKD tomorrow.