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In reply to the discussion: When a little boy is accused of sexual harrassment [View all]mercuryblues
(14,522 posts)they had labeled it bullying too. That way, the first time he kissed ie: touched her, it would have been an automatic removal. The boy was given a learning curve to adjust his behavior.
Instead his mother encouraged it by claiming boyfriend and girlfriend and she "wanted it" The mother went to the media and used sexualized language. If the mother continues down this path of parenting she will have a whole lot of problems with her son when he hits his teen years. An area of concern for me is that the boy's mother downplayed this problem and said the boy has also been in trouble for "rough housing" I suspect she also downplayed that problem.
I get that the term sexual harassment is a term commonly used for adult behavior. By legal definitions it is what the child did. Intent has no bearing on the usage of the term. The school used the term to convey his behavior for internal use only. That way if he exhibited the same behavior in the future, while at the school, they would know that it was not a one time thing. the child mimicked undesirable adult behavior. An uncommon one at that, so where did he learn it?
What would be a good term to describe, repeatedly kissing a girl and not letting her play with other kids, despite being told no?
georgie porgie syndrome?