ABSTRACT
Stephen, aged nine, was a worry to his club leaders. He regularly attended holiday club, and spent alternate weekends with his father, who was divorced from his mother. He boasted constantly to the other children about the exciting trips his father had taken him on and the grandness of his father’s home. His club leaders knew the weekends with his father were much more ordinary than Stephen described. Some were irritated by his boasting and felt he needed to be confronted about it. Others did not want to risk humiliating him either in private or in public.
