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[quote=Anonymous]I think this depends a lot on the school.  At DS's middle school, boys seemed mostly to feel sympathy for other boys when that happened.  There was a big, fairly athletic boy who would cry out of frustration, so he'd be in the middle of a basketball game crying and refs would ask coach if he needed to come out, and coach would say "nah, he's good", and it was true --- it was just what he did.  It helped that he was big and obviously intensely competitive.

If other things that have happened at the school make you think that bullying could be an issue, then I might talk to a counselor.  I assume that you know about this b/c your kid talked to you about it?  If so, did he seem concerned about repercussions like bullying?

I am very sympathetic --- as a boy and young man I cried when frustrated, and it was mortifying.  Once in my 20's I was sparring a fighter who was training to go to the Pan American games, and he kept hitting me late (after ref called stop) and it pissed me off so much that I had tears in my eyes (which was mortifying at the time because guys that I trained with saw it).  I don't have a solution other than to say that it happens (and usually as a response to anger, in my experience), and it is not related to toughness --- look at all the athletes who have cried very publicly (MJ, LeBron after the championship).[/quote]

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