Well behaved child misbehaves.

[Teretmr]

My 9 year old boy has been very well behaved and has never gotten into any trouble.  He has exellent grades and is an exellent sport player.  His teachers and principal have always been very proud of him.  We as parents have always been involved in his school and after school activities.  Today, I got a call from his teacher.  Apparently, he hit another boy at school simply because the other boy would not give him the ball.  The principal decided not to write up Jacob because of his exellent past behavior. He gave him lunch detention instead.  I have not talked to my son about this yet.  I'm very worried about todays incident and I'm confused as to what I should do.  My son has baseball practice and track today after school.  He loves both sports.  I'm thinking he should be grounded and not go to his practice or to track.  I'm wondering if that's enough.  Should I keeping from attending his baseball game on Saturday also?  How long should he be grounded for?  Is this the beginning of more trouble?  What should I do?  Please help me.  I'm very worried.

[RockRose]

I agree with Margy.  Who knows what was happening - you need to ask first.  

A child who is very consistently well behaved will probably continue to be so.

[margypops]

First of all get the facts from your son, his version may be differant, ask him waht happened do not judge until you have the facts , what was happening to make him a well behaved child suddenly lash out, did he hit first, what was said between them, if indeed it was all his fault talk to him about anger and hitting out at others , its up to you if you ground him if this is a one time I would speak to him firmly then let it go ..good luck