Have just been to DS(6) parents' night. He was showing me some of his work and they have a book in which they write what they did at the weekend. DS' was just page after page of the same thing- "I played minecraft on my playstation".
According to his teacher lots of the class talk about Minecraft, but one week, in an attempt to make them think outside the box she "banned" news about Minecraft. In reaction to this DS burst into tears because that was all he did.
We do other things at the weekends; visit family, go for walks, the beach, shopping, playing with lego and occassionally do something like soft play or a run in the car to an adventure park or similar but I admit he is allowed on the playstation a fair bit.
Apparrently he has been unhappy and tearful/emotional at school for a few weeks but has either told us nothing is bothering him or that he doesn't want to tell.
Teacher says he is doing really well academically, is kind and well behaved. His report says that he is being a good friend to his peers at school, is very creative and progressing well. If im honest I was quite surprised to read how well he has come on as he struggled through nursery and has had to work hard on his focus/ concentration.
I was so proud after reading his report vut after meeting with the teacher tonight I feel like I must be failing him somewhere is he is so upset at school he is crying and sometimes just withdrawn/reluctant to work. Generally speaking he isn't much of a crier and has always been more prone to angry outburts than getting sad or upset like that.
I know that the obvious thing is to reduce the time on his playstation and encourage him to focus more on the other things we do but I just feel like I must be doing something fundamentally really wrong for him to be so sad that he cries at school.
His teachers are fantastic and have always been encouraging and positive about him but I just felt like they must think I plonk him in front of a screen permanently and ignore him.
He is so young he shouldn't have worries or burdens that make him this upset as an ongoing thing but he says that nothing is making him sad, no-one is being horrible to him etc. etc.
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HairSlide · 31/03/2016 01:40
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