Need some help...male input & parents...please.

The actions of your son and the other lil boy are quite common for a 6 year old. Kids take things from other kids.
It is good your son told you and it does mean he was hurt by it. Our kids will have their feelings hurt and at age 6, children do not understand loyalty. I can also imagine it hurt even more when this was a former friend.
My bff is from the 8th grade. And is still my dawg today. At that age, there was so much more to share with another person. But not at 6...and who wants to share at 6.

I think he did the right thing. If this is how he chose to cope with it, then it is ok. He even came to you to get closure. And when children care about another person they will want to please them...like his teacher. Again, this is good he wants her admiration. It may keep him out of more serious trouble for now. There will come a time when he will not care what that teacher thinks or you! He will be a teen some day.

As long as he is not being consistently bullied, let him ride it out and develop his own coping mechanisms. You support him. He will be fine.

Taw,

Forget the guilt feelings,,, YOU DID RIGHT!!!

Im a male, and a parent so I feel like I can respond. I have 3 kids,, my oldest is a girl, and then 2 boys.

My 9 yo boy is laid back like that. I ALWAYS teach him to NOT LET NOBODY put their hands on him. If they do,, SHYT on some school trouble,,,, you get them BACK.

Now,, I may sound violent,,,or cruel, and really I dont give a damn. In life, the MORE important thing to teach your child, is self worth, and self confidence. Standing up for themselves, builds both.

One of the proudest days of my son's life, is when this boy, did the SAME thing(took his basketball- and pushed my son DOWN!!!!!)  My son got---wait,, my son POUNCED back up, hit the dude in the chest, and SNATCHED his ball back-------(then he put the ball BACK down beside him, JUUUUST to see if this lil boy wanted to do something)


I went home that nite,, PROUD----I told my wife, and of course she stated with that "I dont want him fighting, and being a bully"--bullshyt,, and I had to get HER ass straight.


No punks in my house.



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Hey taw I can honestly tell you that my dad told me this God Rest His Soul. "If someone picks a fight with you than defend yourself.If you woop there arse just one good time and you will have a friend for life."  Sure enough I took his advance and it worked.

Dedee the kid says, "Mahn, I woulda kicked that joka to his grave!" ~I was a riot...okay I am still a riot~

Dedee the mommy says, "KEEP THE LINES OF COMMUNICATION OPEN!  As long as he knows you are there for him to talk to and you support him he will be okay. K & K are different with the little kids here....oftentimes I have to step in and call the school. I have to repeatedly ask them "WHY DA HELL YAWL LET THAT HAPPEN?!" Tell I  realized they no longer confide in me about their school days, but will tell their Daddy who is more level-headed now in his older age LOL.....or they will tell my sister who in turn tells me....I'm really like "SMACK THAT ASS and GAIN RESPECT!"

Now, I just let them handle it if they tell me they can deal and handle it....cause I be ready to meet the kids momma at the bus stop

Your son sounds like mines.  Mines is 6 as well.  And when he was being picked on I told him to fight back, don't let the bully get away with that mess.  He told me that it wasn't nice to hit and some other BS they teach these kids in school nowadays.  I just shake my head.
I'm a fighter and his dad is a fighter, thats why we fought so damn much.  The little boy stopped picking on him now and we haven't had this issue for a while.  But I am just as lost as you when it comes to this.  I would ask his daddy but he's an ass and I have enough with trying to deteach my son when he comes back home.  Cats are for girls, real men have dogs( who the **** tells a 6 yr old his cats aren't boy pets)
Good luck