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Besides that fact that he'll never experience fear-based compliance from neither me nor my husband, I wouldn't want my son to undergo the following:
- Get bullied at school and/or rejected by peers, sitting alone in the lunch table
- A ''friend'' saying ''do that or I don't be your friend anymore''.. blackmailing him
- His first relationship ending in a heartbreak, a girl breaking his heart
- Seeing violence elsewhere or getting into a fight
- Getting into Tiktok and trying stupid stunts or challenges
- Any trauma, pain or emotional harm
Off course he's going to learn martial arts in the future and will get lectured on how real friends are like, etc. It would just be great if he never has to undergo any of that on the list. Aren't my feelings valid?
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I mean, these are things that any parent wouldn’t want their kids to go through. The thing is, you can’t dictate every single thing that will or won’t happen in his life. The best you can do is prepare him, coach him on how to handle different situations, and hope he doesn’t find himself in them.
Yeah I can only hope for the best outcomes after coaching and lecturing him about all of that. I can only hope he has a good judgment and applies it.
Feelings are never valid or invalid.
Bullying is harsh but part of growing up as is rejection, heartbreak, humilation, violence and the rest
You can't sheild children from this, just prepare them how to deal with it and how to think.
I was bullied when I was a kid. Tell your kid to not let condescending remarks towards him make him feel bad/sad. Rather to remember that literally 99.999% of the time people try to bring other people down it is to see others sad so that it makes them feel better about themselves.
Aside from that, I’d argue that bullying builds character and resilience. So for what it’s worth, I’m glad I got bullied. It shaped me into the man I am today
Its not wrong that you want to protect him but the hard truth is you can't protect him from everything. So you have to teach him how to deal with those situations so that way when it happen and believe me it will he'll be better prepared to deal with it.
Certainly valid, but don't helicopter-parent him into a dependent petchild.
They're valid, but you should consider the results of your actions or advice. Preferably ask a professional.
I will. Since my husband and I are raising him differently I've set up another psychological appointment. We both suffer from school bullying and people taking advantage of us. It would be great if my son ended up as the kind, popular kid at school that no one gives him issues.
That's unlikely to happen. A close group of real but excluded friends is more likely. Popularity at school is not that important.
There was a scenario in a TV show (years ago) where a woman's nieces were being bullied. The woman told them that she was bullied, too, but now the bully works at a checkout at the local supermarket, while she's essentially running a business. She took them shopping, chose the bully's checkout and paid, as usual, with her gold card.
It usually gets better for the bullied. Not always, but often. Once you leave school you can choose your "friends".
It is valid but sadly probably unrealistic
Yes but let him grow naturally you can't protect him always.
It's sad that he'll grow very fast and there will come the time he'll be hanging out with friends. Then all I can do is trust his judgment and values, while waiting for him to return home safely.
Then by the time he goes to school for the first time, it'll be his first time he won't see me for hours. I hope his future classmates are nice to him.
How old he is now?
He's 17 months old. He'll turn 18 months old on the 15th.
You have long time to plan these.
True but time flies so fast. In just the blink of an eye he went from a newborn baby to a toddler walking all over the house (with supervision) and not wanting to be carried anymore unless he's too tired.
@asker its high time to build his health, use ancient methods to make him build strong and manly.
Nobody wants their kid to suffer these things,
If you actually do this crap your son is doomed.