I will say up front that we have a parents? evening next week and I will be raising this then but just wondered if anyone else had experienced similar.
DS is in Year 2 and is in the 2nd group (of 5) for literacy. So he is no way ?bad? at writing.
However, we have always struggled at home with ?encouraging? him to do the small amount of homework that the school suggests (homework is optional, but I try to encourage him to do something to show willing).
This weekend I encouraged him to write down 2-3 sentences on the current topic. I immediately got resistance, lots of ?can?t do it? and general moaning. We agreed he should write 2 or 3 sentences. DS thought of the shortest sentences possible and got very cross with me when I suggest ways to ?improve them? (even just putting in a single adjective). He then refused to even make an attempt to write the words down unless I spelt them out letter by letter. I encouraged him to sound them out. He wrote down words that were phonetically correct (e.g. ?holo? for ?hollow?.) with good presentation (good handwriting and use of full stops/capitals). I praised him no end for getting all the right sounds. He got cross and shouted that what he?d written wasn?t right. To calm him down I told him the correct spelling and he corrected his work. After writing his 2 (short) sentences, he burst into tears and stomped upstairs. He later told me he hates writing and doesn?t want to it again ever.
This is fairly typical of the reaction I get every time. I only ask him to write (anything) every couple of weeks (can?t fact the argument more than that).
Am I expecting too much? I don?t want to force him, but don?t know if I should be totally backing off getting him to write anything at all.
He does seem genuinely distressed by writing (and is quite happy to do other sorts of homework) so I don?t think it is just a general ?resistance to homework? reaction.
Anyone had similar? Or any advice ?