We have a bully on ds' bus, although that might be a strong term considering this kid isn't out hurting anyone physically. He hangs out with one other kid, both around 5th grade who have managed to say some pretty hurtful things to just about all the other kids who wait at the stop. Our Ds is in 3rd.
I don't leave ds down there alone, most of the other Moms and Dads stay as well. There haven't been any wildly horrible incidents, but about a week ago ds decided to ask some questions about the #1 kids' nintendo 'DS', and the game he was playing. The conversation was pretty one-sided, with #1 kid calling either pokemon or james' ds 'gay'. It seemed pretty rough to me, and I have been assuming that they would never get along (big loss!)
Anyway, turns out #2 kid has been gone a couple of days this week and #1 kid has approached our son to play games and they have traded (temporarily) the little game cards so ds could play Mario Cart and #1 kid could play Sonic something or other.
This morning #1 kid was again nice to our Ds, immediately asking him upon seeing him if he wanted to play some 'ds' (I know I've got too many 'ds' references!!)
For now I am taking this as a good thing, my sister who is in the 'hood also, pointed out that one other boy started playing with #1 kid and has recently become rather taciturn and mean...I pointed out that this other boy has a lot of problems right now (his grandma is very sick, for one thing).
Still trying to be optomistic, but I am a little fearful that if #2 kid comes back on the scene things will go badly for our Ds, or that our Ds will be influenced into being mean also, to gain popularity with this guy. Any similar stories out there? Successes? Warnings?
Our Ds starts a social skills class soon, to help navigate some of these waters, but for now we're on our own...
