^ Sounds like Mark may have hit the nail on the head?
Can I just paraphrase your tale?
"My son hits other kids. The other kids' parents tell their kids to stay away from him. I'm worried
they will bully
him next year"
WTF?
My darling (sometimes) child has been known to whack them on occasion...
What a darling little future bully you have. Hitting the other kids is a pretty extreme reaction to being rejected don't you think? No? This has happened more than once too? If another kid hit yours how would you react? There's being mean and there's being violent.
Your question should be "HOW DO I CHILL MY SON OUT?"
...and has been growled at by parents on 2 occations (sic)...
You make it sound like they did something bad.
Your kid
hit their kid. < repeat that until it sinks in.
...I was hoping to get some honest answers on an issue that has arised recently.
What you are doing is shifting the responsibility onto the other kids and their parents. It is
entirely your fault. Really. I hope you apologised, profusely.
Can you hear that little voice in your head saying that I (evlPanda) am a prick/idiot? That's the voice of irresponsibility. If you can't fix your son's bad habits who can?
No parent wants their kids to hang out with another kid that throws random punches, as you've pointed out. Fact of life. Deal with it or
do something to fix it.
My own 3yr old son doesn't hang out with his old best friend anymore for this very reason. The kid's dad is so into making his son tough that he's created a full-on monster. We got very tired of watching them "play" and my son getting hurt all the time.
What makes you think that parents want their children to be hit by yours? Again, WTF? Occasionally you come across parents that tell you "oh, boys always fight". BZZZT - Wrong! They
sometimes fight. I think me and my best friend had maybe two fights over the ten years we grew up together. It happens, but very rarely, ie it's not normal.
I must add he hits kids he doesn't even know. I hope we're just not getting the full story here.
