DS is 7 and in Yr 2. The entire year is off on a day trip on Friday and the destination is about an hour away. Last year DS was so anxious about going that he had a full meltdown at the school refusing to go with the result that both of us landed up crying. This sounds like an overreaction, but it was awful. He screamed and cried and I had teachers trying to pull him off me etc.
Both the head of the school and I think that DS has some anxiety issues. However, he has been doing really well this year - he is much more settled, doing well in class and his anxiety is generally far less evident.
But, with the school trip coming up, he started playing up again today crying at school about not wanting to go in. I have asked the school if I can go along as a parent helper, but it may as it is, all parent helpers have been asked already, so they may not need me and there may not be space for me anyway.
I do not want to force DS to go as much as I know he would enjoy it. If I cannot go along as a helper, I considered driving in my own car and following the coach there so that I could still accompany him.
This is a bloody stupid idea, isn't it? The other kids may be upset that their parents could not go, DS would be pandered to by this and I may just be an irritating nuisance to the staff. I am right in this, aren't I?