My just turned 6-year-old used to love nursery, but has never liked school much. He’s ok when there, but never wants to go.
At the beginning of this academic year, he would cry and cling every day when I would drop them at school (conversely, he would practically skip into nursery! He started nursery at 18 months old and settled fast and loved it. I thought school would be a doddle!).
It got a lot better, and then the pandemic hit. He won’t take part in zoom calls (hides) or anything like that. His school do weekly zoom lessons and he just won’t do it! (He does his other lessons fine, as they’re not on a call.)
We’ve seen some friends (socially distancing) and that’s been fine. But today he is supposed to go to school to meet his new teacher for next year. It’s obviously been months and the old pattern is back - hiding under the bed, crying.
What do I do? Long term and short term? Already dreading September - this is just one day! I’m a bit worried that - today - I won’t be able to get him to go in the gates as obviously (and rightly) I can’t go in with him.
Did anyone else’s child go through this?