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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have socially awkward teen desperate for friends so I understand.

Bare minimum is that he need to get off that soccer team and find another one. He’s not safe around those kids and should never be around them.

If you can do that then I might consider not contacting the other parents.[/quote]

Ugh…

He has practice tomorrow and has told me he’s going to pretend it didn’t happen.  I haven’t gotten a chance to really talk to DH about it but I do think we are done with this soccer team.

He’s played since he was 6 but this is a newer team he started in last year.  [/quote]

What? Do not send him to practice until you have figured out your response (eg, is he staying on the team? If not, why woukd he ever go back?) and talked to the host parents if not others. Sending him to practice is conceding this was NBD. [/quote]

We aren’t sending him to soccer.

He’s upset and embarrassed by the entire situation.  Yes, he knows it’s not his fault but he is hurt.  I don’t want to hurt him more.

We are contacting parents and have gotten mixed reactions.  But most likely no soccer this summer.  Finding an alternative that will make DS happy. [/quote]

I would pull my kid if they knowingly went along with this too.  These parents who are blowing it off are setting themselves up for big problems when their boys get older.  Another parent will sue them or they will get kicked out or arrested eventually.

Consider looking into martial arts for your kid so he can work on strengthening boundaries and self esteem/standing up to bully issues.  Everyone wants to fit in and it’s incredibly hard to be the kid who stands up to the bully.

There was a soccer star at my middle school who behaved terribly but who had very wealthy parents who always managed to bail him out somehow.  One day he peed in a beloved teachers water bottle in front of his ‘crew’ to show off during a lunch break.  We were about to restart class and his usually quiet best friend stood up with tears streaming down his face while the bully kid was screaming and threatening him and told the teacher what happened before she drank it.  The courage it took to stand up to that kid still inspires me 30 years later.  [/quote]

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