Term 2, Week 2
It’s difficult to get inside the brain of a 5 year old boy. Most of the time, I guess you probably wouldn’t want to! But we’re dealing with a few problems with Finn at school at the moment, and I’m just finding it so hard to help him through this. Mostly, I end up feeling I’m doing all the wrong things, and some of the time, I know that I am (see: irrational yelling, behaving worse than a child myself sometimes). After dropping him off each morning, I’m all kinds of tense for the rest of the day until I pick him up. I keep expecting school to call and ask me to pick him up because he’s done x or y. Logically, I know it’s not that bad. I know that he (mostly) has a good time once I’m gone, that a good portion of his behaviour in the morning is due to separation anxiety. Logically, I also know that he’ll eventually get over his apparent phobia of the school toilets (won’t he?!). That school won’t always feel like a prison sentence to he and I both (oh please?!)
But damn it’s hard right now.
April 16 2008 10:27 pm | Family and The Kids
Erin on 17 Apr 2008 at 1.57 am #
I can’t promise, but I sure hope so, for both of you! {{{hugs}}}
Marita on 18 Apr 2008 at 8.21 am #
That is a hard place for both of you to be in
Have you had a chance to talk to his teacher about it?
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Angela on 23 May 2008 at 11.09 pm #
Now if the dishes in the sink and dirt on the carpet would do the same!
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