We just put up a pool for our kids this summer. Yesterday it was all ready for the boy's to get in and enjoy. This boy came over in his swim shorts all ready to have fun in our pool with out being invited over. This kid is in the same grade ( 6) as my son Lincoln and he has never been nice to him at all for the 2 years that we have lived here, he calls him names and is a big bully to him. Lincoln was born 3 months early and has a speech apraxia, He gets B's and C'c despite having combined ADHD too he is also real small for his age, he looks like he should be in 3rd grade not 6th! he is only 53 pounds and is 12 years old. This kid calls him a "RETARD"
and has attacked him physically at the bus stop and following him home after school. He has gotten in trouble in school for calling names too. I had to start walking to the bus stop before and after school to keep him from going after my kid. We even talked to the kids mother and Step father with the school principal and they blew it off. The school has stated that he is a problem child and bullies anyone and his parents don't do anything to get it under control
This kid lives around the corner and up one block from us, across the street from this kid is where my In Law's live and he will also torment Lincoln if we are outside when we go visit Grandma and Grandpa, wich is often being we are so close.
Anyway's I told him no that he was not allowed in the pool because he has never been friends with my 2 younger boy's, (the older 2 have nothing to do with kid, they go to different schools beings the were both in JR High this year.) This kid then came back about 2 hours latter and asked if Lincoln could come over to his house to play with him
when I said no Lincoln did not want to go over to his house, he then asked if he could go out back and swim with them
I told him NO way would I let him in the pool this whole summer, and that MAYBE he should of been being nice to Lincoln and Garrett BEFORE they had a pool that he wants to play in. he started to cry when he was leaving, I did not yell at all to this kid I am real nice and calm when dealing with children, I was real nice to him explaining to him all this so that he could understand were we were coming from, he is 12 so I know he can comprehend what was said So the tears were only because he wanted so bad to go into the pool and he did not want to hear the word NO. Because of this boy calling Lincoln names it has been so hard for him to make friends these past 2 years, I hate to be mean to kids but this boy is rotten to the core. Why should I think for one moment that once summer is over and the pool is down that he will start to torment Lincoln again If I let him go swimming? Sorry this is so long, it is just upsetting that this kid wants to be my son's friend once he found out we had a pool!