Lazy DS

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I feel a bit guilty, I went mad at DS this morning but he didn't really do anything wrong, I'm just so frustrated with his general attitude lately and it all came out this morning .

It all started when he was sat on the PC playing on a stupid "roblox" site where they build houses with bricks or something, he's obsessed with the site and spends every bit of spare time he has on it...he also talks about it constantly, personally I think its quite babyish, he's 9.

Anyway I went in and said "why don't you do something useful and have a look at that bytesize site I told you about?" so he grumbled, said he didn't have time, didn't know the address etc until eventually he could see I was getting annoyed and put it on.

Anyway he went on the right part for his age (KS2) and got nearly every question wrong. Most were extremely easy and obvious (like colour 25% of the garden in green - and it actually told you at the side what percentage was currently green as you were doing it!). Then with the English he had to fill in the missing words and he was putting stuff that made no sense.

I got so cross with him because this is him all over lately. He used to be top of the class, was the highest reader in the class...had to have different maths work to the others because he found it so easy and then all of a sudden it stopped. He spent 1 year in a crap class and everything has gone to pot. He's on the bottom table, struggles with everything, never gets work done on time, never does his homework...

He'd finished all the reading books at school so I was advised to buy him some of his choice for home reading...I bought him pirates of the carribean and he never touched them. He asked for harry potter, started off reading it really well and then stopped. Now, everytime I send him off to read he sits there pretending to read before half an hour later saying he's finished the chapter...if I ask "what happened then?" he looks at me blankly and says "I forgot, I'll go and read it again" so in other words he hasn't read a bloody thing.

Its like all he cares about is the stupid computer. Why has he suddenly gone from one of the brightest students to one of the lowest?

er... perhaps he spends too much time on the computer?

Needs more two-way stimulation, interaction, friendships etc etc.

DS (8) is a bit like this if we let him have more than 45 mins- 1 hour a day.

Stop the computer playing for a start!

Maybe he needs lots of one to one stimulation and a chat with the teacher to see what you could do with him at home.

Posted on your other thread

I know my nearly 6 year old is fixated on the computer/nintendo. As a result he is limited to the 30 minutes after homework before tea, and spending some time before story time on the computer with daddy. We see a marked down turn in his behaviour if we let him play too long...he isn't happy to have his time monitored on it, but now accepts it without a fuss (mostly).
Does your DS have any hobbies? We are trying to get our DS into Beavers. It sounds like your DS needs lots of support at school and at home to build his confidence. Can you arrange to have a proper meeting with the teacher to discuss your concerns? Or with the Head if you feel past discussions with the teacher have gone nowhere.