I have a 5 year old son who can be very stubborn and has his own opinion about everything. Every day is a struggle, if he has P.E. or swimming that day, even more struggle.
He’s not really sporty and when he can’t do things properly, he doesn’t want to do it at all. But that is not only for sports, we enrolled him to music club where he plays guitar, but had to quit at the end of the term because he looked so miserable. I’m taking him to swimming after school, there are usually 2-3 pupils in each group and he loves it, but he says he doesn’t like instructions at school, and that’s why he doesn’t enjoy swimming at school.
He wants everything in his way. Today his teacher told us it was a very difficult week and they could hardly convince him to go PE, swimming etc.
He loves reading and I think that’s because he’s very good at it, probably the best in the class. But he needs to learn to do other things even if he’s not good at them. We’re not really pressuring him and I always tell him to enjoy his time at school, that’s all I ask from him, but he becomes a grumpy kid most of the time unless he’s doing what he wants to do. I don’t really know how to motivate him anymore. Do you have any advice please?