DS just turned 6 last month. He does a thing that, whilst not harmful, is quite irritating and a bit embarrassing honestly.
I’ve picked him up from afterschool care today and he was playing outdoors with some other children, not really together but doing their own thing. When I came, he looked at me and went back to playing (the children were on a climbing structure). The group leader walked over and told him his mummy was here and it was time to go. He didn’t want to come down so basically ignored her, at which point she sort of coerced him to get his bag and then he sort of acts cheeky (flopping around, swinging his bag around). There is also a turnstile at the gate and he kept swinging round despite me and the teacher asking him to stop. He was giggly and would fall to the ground on purpose, and kept going round the turnstile, or flopping over it. I asked him repeatedly to stop but it’s like he’s a bit too wound up. But Finally I got him to go. The teacher said he’d been playing nicely until I came.
This is often the case, they say he’s playing well and then I show up and he gets a bit wild. What is happening here? How do I manage this? It’s a bit embarrassing that he doesn’t respond to me or the teachers. And sometimes I just want to bloody go home! I try getting on his level and looking him in the eye but he just acts ver silly.