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And my question is, am I the asshole for telling my really close friend that I don't want her six-year-old son to be near my three-year-old son anymore?
I don't want to sound like a know-it-all by any means, but I am a teacher.
I do have my master's degree in early childhood education from birth to second grade.
So I have a lot of background knowledge with children.
And I do believe that at my friend's son's age that he should know better when he's around my three-year-old son.
But I believe that he chooses to act out on purpose.
And my friend doesn't do anything to correct it.
Basically, my son's always getting hurt with him always.
And I've babysat her son all throughout the summer.
I did it for free.
I told her like, I'm off for the summer.
I'll help you out.
And every single time I'd babysit him, my son was always getting he was too rough, essentially just too rough.
And that's fine.
Boys will be boys.
Like it's like, I don't mind, you know, the rough play a little bit, but it's the fact that he seems to have no empathy, sympathy, care, like doesn't know when to stop.
I'm yelling, screaming because now my son is like potentially like really, really about to be hurt.