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[quote=Anonymous]My DS (6th grader) is in a youth organization. They divide into small groups to do activities. Each group 
has a group leader who is an older kid and a senior member. The group leader is in charge of the activities.

They prepared a play this week. When I picked him up, he was very upset. He said he only got two lines of 
the whole play. One line is 3 words, another is 7 or 8 words. All other kids got much more lines than him. 
When he told his group leader that he wanted more lines. The group leader said he doesn't care. 
So during the whole preparing of the play, DS felt left out, ignored.
He was crying on the way home. He said he felt terrible about how he was treated. He said
he doesn't want to go back to activities anymore.
Then I felt this is getting a little bit more serious. I don't want him to stop going just because of one
incident. But if his bad feeling toward his group leader and group activity continues, I'm afraid he 
won't positively participate, things may get worse.

I want to help him, but not sure how. There's a adult leader. Should I talk to him, email him about
what happened. Should I ask if ds can change to a different group. (This is a new group, they mix/switch
groups after several months, he was fine in last group)

Should I encourage ds to talk to the adult leader or group leader(it'll be hard for him)
or should I just explain to him this kind of thing happens in life, since this is a new group, new leader, 
maybe we can wait and see... we shouldn't let one bad incident affect what we do.....

Thanks for any suggestions!

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