My ds is 6 in Jan and over the last few weeks has become really difficult to handle. He started year 1 in September and has been attending a breakfast club every morning and an after school club once a week. His behaviour has become, in my opinion, truly awful in that he doesn't do what he's told at home or at school. So much so that his teacher had a word with me this week about it. He has lost more golden time than any other child in his class. He has also started using bad language and told one of his class mates to "f@@k off". I mean this is a 5 year old we're talking about! When questioned about it he said she pinched him but of course instead of telling the teacher he retaliated. To be honest I have been most concerned about the swearing. He has also become completely obsessed with football and attempts to play it every minute of the day. This usually leads to him not doing what we are asking him to do and we end up having to raise our voices to get him to stop. Has anyone else experienced their child transform like this - is it a phase or should I be worried? Should we stop him going to after school club? Breakfast club will be finishing at Christmas as I will be going on maternity leave and won't need it anymore but we thought we'd keep the after school club going once a week as he enjoys it. Is it so awful that he is picking up this kind of behaviour? Is this what boys do? Could it be related to me being pregnant? We have another child (dd, 2) whom he adores and gets on really well with but could he be reacting to this as a threat? Aaagh so many questions!