Originally Posted by mnmom23
Originally Posted by Zanzi
Our DS is getting a lot of rejection at his pre-school. Kids won't let him sit next to them and some of the boys say out loud, "Yay! He's leaving!" when his mother comes to pick him up.

Yesterday he said that he makes "different reality" for himself while he's there. I asked him if it was a safe place to be and he said yes, quite emphatically. He said he uses it only sometimes, but it goes a long way to explain why he can appear unfocused and unresponsive to the carers at times.

He tends to to join the girls games (I think because they talk more) and has limited success and even less with the boys.

It's tough being different!

I think this requires an immediate visit with his teacher(s). No child should have to disassociate in order to survive a day at school. My immediate thought when reading your post is "Where is the teacher?!" Not only is your son being put in an unhealthy situation, but the other kids are learning that bullying is okay. The teacher needs to be made aware and together you need to come up with some solution to this particular problem.

I agree.

Though I will offer that DS6 ALWAYS played with girls instead. Girls tend to be more mature than boys at that age, so that could be the reason why as well.