My Ds just seems so down and unhappy all the time, doesn’t want to go to school. He’s 7 in yr3 now, so moved up to the junior school part in September and doesn’t enjoy most of the work, he finds it very challenging and is very defeative if he doesn’t understand straight off. ( He always seems to be working at the low end of acceptable, but he is very well behaved to his detriment, as he just muddles along unnoticed ) Has a seemingly nice teacher, maybe she’s a little burned out though. His class isn’t quite full and majority are people he know, couple of challenging personalities, but generally a good bunch. He prefers one particular friend who seems to be a bit of an aloof rockstar that everyone loves. So maybe it’s that being held at arms length, I think some of the other socialise outside school as the parents are friendly. Maybe this is my fault for not uping my social game ?
My issue is Ds has this air of teenager. Is this a thing at aged 7? The things he would usually enjoy he seems to be anti like riding his bike. I don’t know if it’s just growing up, he made a few comments about say books I’ve read him are for babies, but doesn’t seem interested in other suggestions like chapter books for me to read him. He even seemed lack luster about Halloween trick or treating. He’s really into gaming, but I limit this and he dislikes that some what generous time limit . He would game all weekend. I have parental controls on so it’s not online game bullying, he’s not doing chats or headsets, as yet. I do worry about so much gaming, but he’s whiney and wiped out after school by the work.