DS has started reception this year and I thought it was going really well until today.
He started off very happy to go, happy at the end of the day, has been going full time for 3 weeks now, goes to breakfast club one morning a week and after school club one afternoon while I'm at work. Hasn't seemed tired in the slightest at the end of the day.
He's had a couple of poo accidents which haven't worried him or the school too much. He has chronic constipation and toiletting issues which the school are fully aware of and have a plan to deal with.
On Tuesday evening he wasn't feeling well and was sick on Wednesday morning so didn't go to school. He wasn't sick yesterday so he's gone back to school today. He got up fine, looking forward to going back to school then at breakfast he just had a meltdown!
Started crying, said he doesn't like school, doesn't like a Mrs B (not sure who she is, not his teacher or TA, poss a lunchtime assistant?), doesn't like it when his teacher goes to lunch, the chairs are uncomfortable, he's too tired and wants to lie down, doesn't like his friends any more, doesn't like the tidy up music and just on and on that he doesn't want to go to school. Refused to eat his breakfast or get dressed.
In the end after trying to reason with him and running out of time I lost my temper
and got him dressed and told him he has to go to school. He was OK in the car and OK in the playground and went in the classroom, a bit quiet but not crying any more.
Not sure if all this is down to him being a bit washed out after being ill or having enjoyed 2 days cuddled up with Mummy and not wanting it to end or if he really doesn't like school! His constipation is not helping now too as he hasn't eaten well for the last 2 days. I have increased his laxative dose but it's not kicked in yet.
I had a quick word with the teacher to say how upset he'd been this morning and that he's basically said he hates school, everyone in it and everything about it (at least that's how it seemed this morning when I was battling to get him ready!). She said they thought he hadn't been himself on Tuesday but now assume it was because he wasn't feeling well and that he often lies down in the afternoon saying he's tired and won't join in. This is the first I've heard of this! He comes bouncing out of the door at the end of the day and is full of beans!
His bedtime is 7pm, he sleeps well normally. DH is in charge of bedtime and sometimes it is a bit later than 7. On a Monday when my parents do the school run and I pick him up from them at 6 it can be 7.30 before he's in bed. I've no idea what time he goes to bed on a Tuesday either because I'm at work but as his other grandparents normally come over I suspect it's probably later too.
Think I need to insist that it's lights out by 7 in future but does anyone have any other thoughts? I thought it was going so well
. Sorry, that was longer than I thought it was going to be!