Has anyone else found that their Reception child’s behaviour has been deteriorating as time has gone on?
DS(5) hasn’t really liked school, and says he doesn’t want to go back, but in the the last few weeks his behaviour has just fallen off a cliff. Nearly 10 weeks of social isolation is taking its toll (only child too).
He’s become rude and demanding, flatly refuses to do any schoolwork in the past two weeks, will refuse to do as asked if he decides that he doesn’t want to (not normally so obstinate), hits, pinches and scratches me if I attempt to remove a toy or him from a situation, runs off upstairs screaming for things like he asked for a drink and he decides there is too little/too much in the glass, barks orders like ‘get me X’ and ‘go upstairs and get me X’ (we don’t oblige). He goes ballistic if he hurts himself (bumps into things etc) i.e we were standing in a shop queue and he turned back towards me and bumped his head lightly on my elbow, so he started shouting ‘you hit me on the head’ repeatedly. The neighbours on one side have said they can hear the screaming.
Playing in the garden invariably ends in a screaming fit as he has started frequently doing things he never usually does - trampling over flower beds, trying to tip mud from his corner of the vege patch all around the garden and paths, throwing mud at me etc. Last night he has finally lost his patch and he can only play with his diggers and trucks in the sand pit rather than making mud piles in his patch. The girls on the other side are 5 and 18 months and are always in the garden playing nicely and it’s rare to hear their parents telling them off, and all they must hear from us is his screaming when told no
My lovely boy has just become full of rage and anger, which has got worse since we told him last Thursday that he will be going back to school soon (had email from the school to say they are opening). I’m dreading to think what his behaviour will be like once he is in school again in his small bubble which so far will not have his close friends in it.
DH is a keyworker so he’s working as usual but never gets the brunt of his behaviour anyway. Some days I just end up having a cry
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Thisischaos · 27/05/2020 09:37
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