Question
My 7yo son was doing a worksheet at school and made a mistake that he could still see after trying to erase it, so he asked for another worksheet. Since there was a substitute teacher, and there weren’t any extra copies, she was unable to give him one. He got very upset and cried and hid under the table until a student went for help and the teacher across the hall finally coaxed him out. She took him into the hall and he began to express deep regret and embarrassment over what just happened. Then he told her he wanted to run into that brick wall over there and kill him self. That, of course, set off a chain of alarms through the school system because “no 1st grader should be talking of self harm”. He’s never lost a grandparent or pet so I’m not sure he knows what death even means. Is there anything I can do?
