My son started preschool just after 3rd birthday and after initial settling-in period was fine, appeared to enjoy himself, including breakfast and holiday club, for the next two terms. Now, in his final term, he is refusing to go; says "it's boring me", "it's making me sick" and "it's just for babies." As August baby he is still younger than most of them, but I suspect these are half-understood phrases picked up from the older children he has recently started playing with on the green outside our house (all very nice private-school children incidentally, which he will not be, but that's an issue for later). The preschool has been understanding, tried to help (switched his hours to mornings only so that he doesn't have to stay for lunch, which was a particular hate) but has run out of ideas. Though if I brought him there by force they would do their best to entertain him until time was up! However even if I wanted to, he is too big for me to take by force; we are in inner London & use public transport or walk everywhere.
I don't know what to do. Right now he is sitting outside my locked door, moaning as he has been for the two hours since we were due at preschool. I am refusing to play with him or take him anywhere. This is not the first time, and things are not improving. I am less concerned about the few weeks left of preschool than the prospect of trouble with school proper next September. Apart from which his nursery time was my only time off, & though I don't work formally I do have an at-home project with which I am trying to make progress . . . But that is secondary, really. Please help !