We've been to parents evenings over the last few years, and ds tends to drift and daydream at school. He sometimes sits and does nothing. He's not disrupting any other children, but he just sits there staring into space.
Tbh, I was a bit like this at school. I would just sit there and think that in a hundred years time, none of this will matter, we'll all be dead any way. I couldn't wait for school to be over. I don't mean the school day, I mean that I was counting down the years for it to be over and done with.
I know that's a terrible attitude to have, but I was bullied at school, had no friends and just wasn't interested.
Luckily, I did ok at exams. I don't think that I was clever, but I was just lucky at winging it and passing exams. I didn't revise, stress or panic. I just didn't care.
I do worry a little bit about ds, but I completely relate to him just sitting there, zoning out and doing the bare minimum.
I was never going to be a rocket scientist or a doctor, but I've got a job and I'm content in that regard.
I am grateful for an education, as I believe that everyone should have the right to one, and very bright young people should have the right to higher education, regardless of financial background.
Are there others out there like me, who just sort of day dreamed through school, and didn't really worry about it?
I've never fitted in any where, so maybe not. When I was at school, it seemed that kids were either serious about it, or destructive and disruptive about it.