My son 16 is having a hard time at school at the moment. He’s failed some subjects and looking at repeating some.
This has all blown up in the last few days but ongoing for a few weeks. At the moment he’s got no drive to do anything just comes home from school and doesn’t do much. I have noticed he does get up much and he’ll wait till the last possible moment to go for a wee, he moaned he needed an urgent wee when his brother was in the bath then asked in urgency if he could wee outside. We live on a retired farm so no big deal as such with that.
The fact is he now complains his stomach is sore and everything hurts. He gets boy pain when really stressed and I’m worried he’ll make himself so sick we end up in hospital again. When my dad died he was so stressed he ended up with two gastric ulcers.
We are an open family but all of a sudden he is shutting down, I’ve spoke to the school but not sure how else to help him. I haven’t seen him this low before and I have a feeling he’s adopted the motto “I’m a boy I’m fine” which is obviously not the attitude I want or support. We discussed his concerns over dinner tonight and he feels like a failure and lost all motivation. Does anyone have any suggestions what I can do to support. I’m at my wits end