Re: What would you do in this situation…
As a 6 year old if someone is constantly touching you, even if it is just tickling, it’s annoying.
When my kids have to sit on the carpet for up to 20 mins sometimes due to intro of lesson, 20 mins is a long time for a 6 year old to sit on the carpet and someone poking you, playing with your hair, tapping on your back/knee, tickling you for 20 mins is going to get annoying.
It’s not about the intention to hurt or not, its about boundries, if they are tickling each other thats different, but if one child doesnt like it and has said stop then the intention is to annoy, which is wrong.
Also, it’s these little things that turn into bigger things. I see it and deal with it everyday. Children need to learn boundries no matter what. I have a child in my class who is a little smaller than the others, he has big brown eyes and everyone in the whole school thinks he’s adorable, I personally think he looks like a gremlin. Anyway, the older children play with him a lot and he loves the attention, he pretend play fights with them and as they are older children they dont get hurt as he’s only small. This child then goes and pretend fights with a child his age and his size and that child is getting hurt. He doesnt see anything wrong with it, he claims ‘but my other friends dont say stop.’