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... so far, DS has been hit in the back, hit in the face with a lunch box and punched. the kid who punched him has also poked him and sat on him. and the same three kids have teased him. ...[quote]

Hit in the back
Hit in the face with a lunch box
punched
poked
sat on
teased

This is not simply get used to K.

Escalate and monitor.[/quote]

I think the context matters though and her son may not be giving her the full story. was he hit in the back during a game of tag where a kid was too rough? Was he standing still and a kid came up and walloped him in the face with his lunchbox with no context to that? Was the kid swinging the lunchbox around carelessly and it hit him in the face. Was it boys being rough? I spent a couple months in a kindergarten class last year and there were two boys who were very 'tactile'..always poking, touching, sitting on, roughhousing. They weren't bullying, they just really didn't have a sense of their own bodies and they liked physical contact. The teacher must have told them 'hands to yourself', 'get off him' 'stop touching' 50 times a day. Teasing can be good-natured or mean-spirited. At age 5 kids have a sense of what is nice and what is mean but many don't understand how it impacts others. I think Op needs to get more info and also understand this within the age of development these kids are at. I am not saying her child should put up with being hurt, that isn't acceptable. But trying to understand it as something other than mean children bullying and picking on her child. That attitude is not going to help her child. [/quote]

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