This incident happened a few years ago, when my son was about 8. I later found that the trigger was that two other parents, who could not afford the same activities that I had my son enrolled in, had instructed their children to not play with my son--apparently they wanted us to either pay for all of the boys, or keep my son in the same activities they had their children in (which was none). Further, they claimed that their children would get jealous because they couldn't participate. Some people are sooooo silly...Anyway, I was reminded of this when I wrote my article entitled 'Cleaning Up the Mess'. If you're interested, the full story is in that article.

My son has opted to play
Piano, golf and voice
I heard today he’s being
Rejected for this choice

He does not like to ride
His bike or play outside
The other children stare at him
So hard they petrify

As I observed this trend
I heard a mother say
‘She thinks hers is too good
To play with ours today’

And that is ignorant babble
For I love him that is sure
But never have I considered
Him totally wholesome and pure

So I told one most respected
What I indeed had heard
In hopes she’d spread this story
To those who believed those words

I said 'Is every grown up
Totally, thoroughly the same?
I think that all God’s children
Are called by different names…

So why would we expect
Each child to be alike?
What of it if one’s interests
Are different than we like?

How would we feel if we
Were in that one child’s shoes--
Unsupported for our choice
To pursue life like we choose?'

She said ‘You’re right, I see.
I had that trouble with mine.
And then we gasp at how
Tragedies like Columbine--

Happen under our nose’
I said, ‘You see my point—
No child should be excluded
From anyone’s social joint’

So with this message sent
I enjoyed watching their shock
When I took my son and played with him
Up and down our block.

The moral in this piece is
To all this scene might see
Report this type of bullying
So each child can be free.