My son is in Year 1 and every morning I have a battle to get him through the school door. It has been like this on and off since starting school. He is an anxious person, but my feeling now is that it has just become habitual and attention-seeking. He sometimes has a wry smile and you can see him waiting for the teacher to pay attention and bait him with stickers etc. and then he's fine. By all accounts he is perfectly happy the second I am gone. He is engaged in activities and has fun with friends.
He tells me he hates school, but when I try to get to the bottom of it, there is no hint of anything sinister going on, he would just rather be with me.
I have tried being sympathetic and I have tried being firm. It is exhausting and upsetting for us both every morning. The teacher ends up dragging him off me. It must be tiresome for her and disrupting for the other children. (If he was in tears and distraught after I left, obviously I would be more worried about him than everyone else, but as I say, I think it is just a bad habit.)
Anybody dealt with and managed to eliminate this?
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how to break the habit of 5yo school drop-off battle
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hobbeschild · 19/11/2018 09:55
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