Bully in the trailer park
Last year we bought a trailer in a trailer park. It's not a normal run down park that most people think of, the trailers are nice and taken care of. We have yards and a small play ground in the middle.
For the most part the area is quiet, and there's virtually no crime.
When we moved in last year my son Marcus (now 10) made friends with a boy, Brock (14)(not their real names). They hung out together off and on mostly with the other kids in the park.
About 3 months ago he started being mean to my son. He'd poor drinks on him, throw dirt in his face, shoved him in the creek etc. He did it under the jest of," we were all playing and he did it to us as well."
I don't doubt that Marcus did some of those things as well, but the times he came to me he was genuinely upset and told me that he hadn't done anything like that to the boys and he asked them to stop but they didn't.
One day he came in and said he was done playing for the day. About 20 minutes later Brock knocked on the door and Marcus told him he was staying in.
Little while later Marcus decided to go ride his bike in our yard. Maybe 5 minutes go by and I hear yelling so I open the door and Brock and another kid are in my yard beside Marcus asking him why he's such a cry baby and calling him names.
At that point I tell Marcus to come in and tell the other two they need to go home. Instead they simply move to road infront of my house and continue to yell about my kid being a cry baby.
This time my husband went outside and told them they needed to go back towards their house (they live on the other side of the park) and leave Marcus alone. Brock tells my husband he doesn't have to do what he says and that he's not a kid.
My husband now decides to go talk to the kids parents. Brock rode beside him the entire way making fun of my kid, calling my husband ma'am and just being disrespectful. Once at Brocks house Brock tried to tell my husband that wasn't his house and that he was stupid.
My husband talked to his grandfather and asked him to keep Brock away from Marcus, and we'd do the same.
Well that hasn't happened. Anytime Marcus sees Brock at the park or out he comes home. But Brock keeps hunting Marcus down. Marcus was in the yard riding his bike and Brock rode by and called him a pussy, he didn't see me out there playing with my 1 year old but once he noticed me he sped off to his house.
Yesterday Marcus and his friend Johnny (who is autistic) were throwing Marcus's football in Johnny's yard. Brock came up and threw water on Marcus and tried to take his football, Marcus told him to stop and the Brock punched Marcus in the nose.
Marcus ran away (he isn't violent and a lot smaller than Brock) and Brock chased him. At this point Johnny's aunt came out and broke it up and brought Marcus home.
She told us what happened and told us she's lived here for years and she'd had problems with Brock bullying Johnny as well, even at school. And the grandparents have never done anything to stop him.
At this point we are going to talk to the landlord and let her know that something needs to be done, because if Brock touches my child again either we are calling the cops or I'm going to jail for beating his ass.
We are hoping that by talking to her she will talk to the grandparents and tell them to get their child undercontrol or action will be taken.
I don't want to have to call the cops on a 14 year old but I will if I have to, even if it's just to scare the shit out of him.
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