After school club making son share his PSP!

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Son broke into tears this morning because he said he was banned from playing his PSP in after school club.

Hes been taking it for years. He knows not to play it in school but hes likes sitting there quietly and playing while he waits for one of us to pick him up after work.

Anyway, phoned the school and they told me that they'd told him not to bring it because the other children were squabling over it !!! and that there were arguments about who lends it next !!!!

Thing is school is constantly telling me its not their responbibility if it gets broken but their trying to make him share with other children. Who could break it !!!

So annoyed with them, not least because they told this to a 6 year old but didnt tell us the parents about this. We've not told them that if hes happy we're happy for him to sit in the corner quietly and play and not lend it to anyone....

I've got a feeling its one particular kid causing the hassle. Son says hes constantly trying to snatch it and when I turn up this other kid always runs up to tell me that my son wont lend it to him !!! (I always say hes not allowed).

What would you do? Have a quiet word with this other childs parent?

adouglasmhor

Get him to leave it at home, simple.

liney

The after school club is having to police your childs PSP to avoid it becomming broken, and as children are children they will of course ask to borrow it causing arguments when he says he's not allowed etc etc.

The afterschool club are obviously fed up of spending their time supervising and have now decided to put a stop to the problem permanently.

I'm suprised he was ever allowed to take it there in the first place to be honest. Perhaps it would be more beneficial to your son to join in the organised activities instead of sitting in solitude anyway.

ClareEmily

I agree with the other comments when you are six you always want to play with what the other children have. I expect your son is one of the lucky few to even own a PSP.

Leave it at home and get him to run around with the other kids.

horse76

I understand how this must be so frustrating, as your son is quite happy to sit quietly in the corner with his PSP until he's collected, something which you're both happy with. As usual there is always one or 2 who have to spoil it for others. The options you have is to either go and speak to the school, tell them that you would prefer it that your son continued to use his PSP at after school club and see if they'll speak to the children who are causing the bother. It's your son's property, so think the school are wrong to say he should have to share it, especially since it's an expensive item.

Do they not have other activities to keep the other kids amused if your son doesn't want to join in? The school has allowed him to take it up until now and these kids started taking it off him. Are the school not very good with dicipline? Doesn't sound like they are.

The other option is to simply tell your son not to take it, know it would spoil his fun and is unfair, but if the school won't deal with the other children's behaviour, is it really worth his PSP getting broken?

newcook

I too agree that he shouldn't be allowed to take it with him. he's not allowed to share it (understandable as it may get broken) but by not sharing it he is looking selfish and unfriendly.

shegirl

I'm not even sure why you let him take it to school to be honest.

Keep it at home,school isn't the place to be taking things like that,it's common sense

liney

Involving the school who undoubtably have a "no electronic games" policy will probably just cause them to re-visit the afterschool club's policies and have them enforced for strictly.

It's probably the school who have instructed the Afterschool club to take a stand in the first place when it's been brought up at a club meeting.

BitterAndTwisted

I'm not convinced that it's entirely beneficial for a young child to play on their own on one of these things rather than making the most of shared time with other kids. I'm also not convinced that a PSP is an ideal plaything for one so young either. He's likely to learn much more valuable lessons about getting along with others and sharing with them if he's actually interacting with them. I think your after-school people are right to discourage its use there.

pingua

Is this a wind up ?? (not the post above) A psp in an after school club ???

shegirl

pingua wrote: »

Is this a wind up ??

:rotfl:

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