11-14-2023, 11:02 PM
Thank you both for your replies.
searchinmyroots - thanks for the book recommendation
rabbiO - you're correct, we're from the south of England.
I had avoided writing what he'd said in attempt to not cause any upset, although I appreciate this probably doesn't help address the actual issue.
So he was playing an online shooting game with some friends and some other children from school. A few of them are a bit of a bad crowd and are going through what I hope is just an "edgy phase" where they say and do things for a reaction.
A few of this crowd were making flippant remarks and jokes about the Holocaust, pretending to be Nazi guards and so on. My son said this was winding him up and they were being "stupid", so he blurted out something like "oh exterminate the untermensh gas them all". I heard him say this (hence the message here) and it sounded like his "sarcastic voice", but I was still really shocked at what he said. As I said in my original comment I don't think this was done maliciously. I hope it was done sarcastically to challenge these children (not that this makes it okay) and I suppose I'm worried that he just said it carelessly without thinking. I want to address this with him effectively as I think this is a real teachable moment. I will look into the book recommended by searchinmyroots, but if there are other ideas I'd greatly appreciate them.
searchinmyroots - thanks for the book recommendation
rabbiO - you're correct, we're from the south of England.
I had avoided writing what he'd said in attempt to not cause any upset, although I appreciate this probably doesn't help address the actual issue.
So he was playing an online shooting game with some friends and some other children from school. A few of them are a bit of a bad crowd and are going through what I hope is just an "edgy phase" where they say and do things for a reaction.
A few of this crowd were making flippant remarks and jokes about the Holocaust, pretending to be Nazi guards and so on. My son said this was winding him up and they were being "stupid", so he blurted out something like "oh exterminate the untermensh gas them all". I heard him say this (hence the message here) and it sounded like his "sarcastic voice", but I was still really shocked at what he said. As I said in my original comment I don't think this was done maliciously. I hope it was done sarcastically to challenge these children (not that this makes it okay) and I suppose I'm worried that he just said it carelessly without thinking. I want to address this with him effectively as I think this is a real teachable moment. I will look into the book recommended by searchinmyroots, but if there are other ideas I'd greatly appreciate them.