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Help - My 8 year old son's bad behaviour in class.

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Rose33 · 04/05/2011 19:43

My son's teacher has told me, my sons behaviour in class has slipped this term. He is sitting on a table with his male friends and is chatty, disruptive and not listening to instructions. The teacher has asked me to have a word to avoid this becoming a bigger problem. He has had to spend his break time outside the deputy heads office two twice in two days.

My son was upset when i spoke to him about it. He said his friends keep distracting him and he is finding the work really hard.

He is a good boy generally. He said he thinks he needs to sit closer to the teachers away from his friends. He doesn't know what else he can do to be 'good'.

Any advice would be very welcome. I don't want him to be labbeled a badly behaved boy.
Thanks

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Galena · 04/05/2011 19:59

I find this really odd (on the teacher's part - not yours). If I had a child in my class whose behaviour slipped so markedly when he sat with his friends, I'd stop him sitting with them! Perhaps you could go back in to talk to the teacher and ask if there is any way he could be moved away from them. If the problem then persists, you know it is probably something he's doing, and you can try to act on it.

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