My little boy is 5, he is 6 in August and just finished Year 1. Prior to the lockdown he started getting upset when we were taking him to school. We thought we had got through all this after months of it when he was in Reception and was probably the last child to go in without parents. Anyway he is the youngest in his class and nearly 12 months between him and the others, you can really tell this in his emotional maturity. We have spoken to his teacher and she said he is fine once gets inside. I think the issue causing the anxiety is he is very quiet and doesn't have a close friend. He plays on the periphery of other groups. He doesn't like sports or football so can't join in with the others or when he does I think the other boys are telling him to get out of the way and consequentially he is feeling left out.
We then had lockdown and he was glad to be off school but was difficult to get any school work done. He has developed a small obsession with playing Minecraft on his Switch and watching youtubers playing Minecraft. I must admit he is on this too much, it hard to monitor as I also have 2 year old twins so have sort of let it slide. We have now decided that he needs to limit his time on these things.
During the lockdown he has developed a stutter, he has previously had no speech problems and no one we know stutters. He does get very excited and talks too fast and then starts shouting and trying to get words out. He also over-exaggerates the words and throws his head back as he is trying to get the words out. I haven't spoken to school about this yet as he only went back for the last 2 weeks of term. Again he didn't want to go in and was moody and upset.
His moods have changed a lot, he is grumpy and shouts at us. He stomps around like a teenager. I don't know if this is attention seeking behaviour as we do often have the three of them alone and it's really hard to show each child the same amount of attention. Both me and my partner work full-time too.
Sorry for the long post; any advice is welcome.