Not a particularly good day yesterday.

[bishybashyboshy]

Well I collected my son from school yesterday he was in the most vile mood, by far the worst so far this term, handled it the same as I would most of the time which is as calm but firm as possible. It is so heart breaking when I see the look on his face when he walks out of those doors at the end of the day it just shows that everything has been too much for him. He hated life (we try to discourage the use of hate, such a strong word, he usually dislikes something), became extremely demanding about everything and anything to the point that my patience began to wear thin but I managed to stay calm. Had several failed (verbal) attempts at taking his frustrations out on his younger sister but I just about managed to defuse these before holy hell broke loose. It took him 2 1/2 hours to finally calm down enough for him to have a chat with me about his day, and from what I can gather it was all down to something which happened in PE he was angry with himself because he couldn't balance no matter how hard he tried we had big hugs and he was back (think everyone will know what I mean by that ). I should imagine this would of had a knock on effect for the rest of the day, causing him more anxiety and anger. He has left for school this morning after a pleasant start to the day but his final words when he left me were that he hates Fridays (which is unusual as he has golden time and he knows hes off tomorrow), always being rushed rushed rushed, so I imagine that he is already anticipating something and his mood will not be the best tonight either. Its so hard to remain calm all of the time but even harder when I am not feeling 100% myself and if my daughter leaves school similar it can get ridiculous. Please tell me I am not the only one who is finding this increasingly difficult?

I have begged teachers before to let me know if there have been any incidents at school which might upset him, so I can be 'prepared' for him coming home (no trips to any shop of any kind - straight home, no detours, kid gloves etc)
Do they tell me? Do they heck. I've even had parents of other DC phone me up and tell me of incidents that involved my DS
Schools just don't get the fall-out that they can cause. Home is not their problem, so why bother.
Can you tell that I need to vent too?

let it out auntevil heart breaking...something so small to most but enough to really affect our children....just seen as an inconvienience by the people we would expect to help , last time it was the embarrasment of getting changed in front of the other boys when he went swimming because he hadn't worn his swimming trunks under his uniform, but TBH it wakes me wonder if it all actually stems from the fact he is so slow to change for these lessons so everything thereafter really effects his self esteem.

Yes PolterGoose we are on countdown too , my son gets a little bit unsettled at the beginning of the hols but a day or 2 in he is back to his old self which is a lot less anxious.