Take a toy to school day.

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There was a note yesterday that the children could bring in a toy or game from home food the last day of term.

I told DS and he immediately panicked. "What do you mean? What toy? Why? We don't' take toys to school we're not allowed"

All the way home he stressed about which one he could take and I had to grab him as he was so wound up he was going to run across the main road :(

This morning we had it all again. All suggestions by me were met with screaming and threats of "I'm going to punch you". He finally chose one after much ranting and when I held him to try calm him down his little heart was beating so fast :(

I'm so sad for him that something so small and exciting for other kids has caused him such distress.

I am thankful that, since the time that nearly every child took a console or something electronic in, our school's abandoned toy day!

We had this today at my NT daughters school. Even got a text from the class teacher reminding us at 7am this morning - states no consoles/iPads etc. I hope your son hasn't been too stressed by it all but I agree its so hard for them to understand and it's heartbreaking to see them so distressed about it all.

One thing we found hard for DS1 was the fact that he doesn't really play with toys, as such. He plays with lego, draws etc - all things he can do at school but nothing that he'd take stuff in for.

When Ds had this, I gave him some small random toy that I happened to have that wasn't HIS. That seemed to help.

My ds was up half the night stressing over which toy to take...

This morning his twin brother mentioned that they would have to share and that set him off again. Cue the following statement in a very loud voice over and over whilst pushing me!

"I can't share my toys, they will get other people slime on them", (germs to him).

I eventually calmed him down and let his TA know he didn't want other children touching his toys. Lord knows what sort of day he's had. I've been sat in today waiting for a call.

Can't wait for 3.15pm... no more school for two weeks.

He'll be fine at school, he holds it all in there, so terrified of getting into trouble. It'll be when he gets home the proverbial hits the fan.

But yes, 2 weeks off, thank goodness.

DS had this a few weeks ago, but even worse - they were meant to take their favourite toy. DS ended up, after long negotiations, taking a pen.

We had the opposite problem today as we didn't know about it. There was no letter home, and since Ds's TA left a week ago, and since then any communication to home relies on ds (yes, nice one ) so inevitably he didn't take in the information and/or pass it on. So stroll into school this morning where he realises everyone else has their toys and he hadn't remembered/known. He actually handled it brilliantly, but fgs is it too much to ask for the class teacher to make sure he has taken in the instruction.

was same for us, he just wasn't going to take anything in at all - he is also the same in that he doesn't really play with toys. He was also convinced whatever he took in would get lost.

So he took a cheap version in of connect 4 in the end that he wouldn't even remember he had.

They don;t realise sometimes that a simple little thing that priduces excitement and joy for most can produce stress and meltdowns.

The panto was the same and he DID stay home for that. I wasn't paying £10 for a meltdown rocking and ear covering when I can have it for free