Basically after some recent events for preparing to move from nursery to primary 1 I’m a bit concerned.
My boy is 4 and a half, quite bright and likes to learn and play. Gets on quite well at nursery with other kids but seems to prefer keeping to himself - don’t know how much is pandemic meaning no groups etc for the last couple of years, or if it’s just his personality.
The behaviours that are concerning me the most are a relatively new tendency to just completely ignore us or his teachers when spoken to if he thinks whatever he’s doing is more exciting. He’ll acknowledge it’s rude/wrong to ignore us but also elect the behaviour after a while.
His other recent one is a fairly constant bout of fake falling (dramatically spins to the ground etc), faking being injured, lying about people pushing or hitting him (like a hand on a back is now them launching him across a garden).
At a recent P1 event/activity he was ignoring he teachers, not listening and not really joining in with all the other kids for the most part.
He was doing a lot of his fake falling/fake “I’m hurt” thing, then actually tripped on a root and scuffed his face and went mental, like full screaming and wouldn’t calm down. (The parents were near enough to see, but not involved in the event - it was meant as a new P1 student and teacher thing)
Just seeing him behave like that and how good most of the other kids were at listening and joining in has got me worried there’s something wrong with him behaviourally.
What’s frustrating is he can be very attentive if he feels like it, and is academically ready for school (he basically taught himself to read jus by having books read to him, knows more about the solar system than I ever did, gets basic addition and can write pretty well for 4) - his nursery teachers think he’d be bored in nursery if we kept him in a year, but am scared he’s not emotionally ready for primary school.
Was hoping to see if people here had similar experiences with their children or could offer any advice?