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Exhausted 6 year-old

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greenmash · 19/10/2010 14:30

My 6 year old is exhausted from school and incapable of doing anything when he comes home. He has been like this ever since he started. It is not the amount of work he does because if he is at home I can make him do a full day of constant school work and he is not so tired. My other son doesn't has this problem. Is this normal.

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haggis01 · 19/10/2010 15:02

yes, 2 out of my 4 children were like this. They found school tiring and gave up the extra cirricula stuff they had done preschool - they also didn't want to go back after school to friends houses. I found that after they came home and had a drink (they didn't drink enough at lunch and they keep classrooms hot) and a nibble and a bit of a veg on the sofa that they were usually fine later in the evening.

School is very noisy and busy and some kids find that very tiring when young - there is nowhere to nab off to for a rest or to be quiet. TBH we used to give our son the odd day off if he was very tired out because we found that if we pushed him to go to school he started crying and running away and wouldn't go into the school or we would get a call at around 9.40 to come get him as he had said he was feeling sick. It meant that he didn't start to really hate school.

I had a friend who even kept her son off every second Friday for the first two years as he couldn't cope with school - then he was fine.

Good luck

AmelieMay · 19/10/2010 17:10

non of my friends have children like this but both mine are. I can partly control exhaustion levels by getting them into bed for 6.30pm. They wake at 7.15am. They are smallish for their age and can't seem to cope with sleep overs or late nights. when my eldest started school we had to do mornings only for months and after that take the odd day off.

Sobha · 20/10/2010 10:19

i agree if they dont drink water during the day they get more tired. I would try and encourage that and earlier bed times. If it persists - it may be worth finding out from the school have they noticed ie is there a point when your 6 year old becoems tired - pm or all day? And lastly - if it continues may be wort getting a blood test done.

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