If your child started reception in September '05

[Earlybird]

How are they settling in to school?
What are they like when they're not in school?

Asking because my dd has settled at school perfectly well - in fact, I couldn't have hoped for better. But she is an absolute nightmare in terms of at home behaviour. She is argumentative, demanding, belligerent....and I'm worn out. I know it's awful, but I'm hoping that some (or many ) of you are experiencing the same thing so I can take comfort in that fact...Let's commiserate - and who knows, maybe someone has a solution!

wordsmith - know exactly what you mean about Woolworth's. One of today's Sunday papers included a supplemental Woolworth's Christmas magazine. DD sat on my bed with a pen and carefully "X'd" the items she wants for Christmas. I think she marked virtually the entire magazine and then solemnly informed me that she understood it might be that she'd receive some things this year, and some next year as she'd marked so many....

She's also suddenly very curious about the Santa song that says "he sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake". She asked me very seriously the other day if Santa could see her at that moment, and how he did that

My dd started this year, and apart from being a bit tired and anxious for the first two or three weeks has settled in fine with no side effects. But she did turn 5 the day before starting school, which probably makes a huge difference. Her main problem was (we think) that she was so looking forwards to school it was a bit of an anticlimax. Also she desperately wanted to play with ds's friends (in yr2) and found the big playground difficult to cope with. Now she is playing with her own class mates she seems a lot more settled. ds also settled fine (he was a May baby and started in January), but had plenty of bad behaviour in the classroom!