Looking for some help with my 9 (almost 10) year old son!
Received a pretty long text message from my son’s guitar teacher tonight saying that over the last few weeks my son has been misbehaving, time wasting, giving the teacher and other students cheek and generally acting like he doesn’t want to be there.
The only extra curricular activities he does is football and guitar (three nights a week total) and he enjoys both when he’s there but moans about going almost all the time. He also looks for ways to get out of school constantly - he’s been feigning sickness to get sent home when there is definitely nothing wrong with him (I’ve spoken to him at length and there’s no bullying or anything going on at school other than he’s bored / doesn’t want to be there).
The only thing he seems to care about is his devices: playstation/ipad etc.
His behaviour was pretty bad for a while around 18months ago so we created a timetable for him and this limits his device time to around 30-45 minutes a night and his behaviour really improved however I feel as if we’ve hit the next stumbling block. Obviously this has been going on a while and we’ve tried various different things but he just seems to have a constant attitude and doesn’t want to do anything anymore, he’s fed up with school and clubs and I feel like I want to get him excited about life again!
Can anyone relate? Has anyone else’s kids been through similar?
I don’t want to force him to go to any classes he doesn’t want to go to but he enjoys both when he’s there, has friends in both and would otherwise be sitting around the house moaning to get on his devices for longer- what do I do!?