Hi, my son is four (dec) and is due to start school in September, it's a lovely school and his two older sisters go there.
My son has hypotonia which means his muscles are lax, he gets very tired walking and is only just potty trained with wee but we are still not there with the pooing side of things, he also has allergies to milk and eggs. He is also ill often, sickness mostly, catches everything possible and has missed many sessions of preschool because of this.
He is also not good in big groups, hates too much noise and really finds preschool hard 'with lots of children' as he puts it, the preschool has a maximum of ten children at a time.
My husband and I are worried about him starting school for the above reasons and wondering if home schooling him would be better for him, I'm a childminder at the moment but I'm happy to give that up if keeping him at home would be beneficial.
I just wanted some advice from people who home school and wondered if anyone made the decision to home school because of their child's health, how home schooling one child but sending the others to school could work and if I kept him at home for a year or until we felt he could cope with it better would he fit into school ok, and would the local authority be ok with that.
We really want to make the right decisions for him, but its such a big decision. I want him to enjoy school and there was no questions with his sisters, I just feel uneasy about sending him when I'm not sure he will cope.
Any advice would be appreciated thank you.
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hanreeoak · 18/03/2013 18:09
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