Guess What Happened Today . . . . Again!

Surprise, surprise my youngest son, who I’ve been having problems with getting him into school almost ran in yesterday.  Why?  Simple, a really great school trip. Had a fabulous day, full of the joys of spring because of it.

So this morning, it was school as usual and lo and behold I had the ‘don’t want to go in’ behaviour.  Again two of my friends were on hand to help.  I’d already glanced up the road after getting out of the car and saw one of my friends walking down the road, so I knew I had backup behind me.

Today, he did a good suffragette impersonation, wrapping himself round a fence post.  It was at this point my friend walked past, calmly took all the book bags, lunch boxes etc I was holding and carried on into school with them while I dealt with him.

She’d also notified his class teacher so that when I’d managed to  pick him up and carry him to the door they were ready for me.

Another friend also took my youngest daughter off with her friend so I could talk to his teacher.

He wasn’t a happy bunny with me, but because I’d thought something was going to happen I had prepared myself mentally.

It just doesn’t make sense.  Two of my friends have had their children watching out in the class for me and say everything is okay.  His teacher says he’s playing well with his friends and doesn’t feel there are any concerns and on the school trip yesterday one of my friends kept an eye on him and said he had a great day.

So is this just a phase he is going through to get my attention or is there an underlying problem?    Is it because this is a very long term and he’s getting tired?

Two of the moms I know whose children went through the same last year said the reason for their children acting up was dislike for the teacher.  When said teacher went on maternity leave and a new teacher came in the problem went away.  Plus the new teacher was fantastic.

I have asked him about his teacher but not really had much of a constructive response.

And interestingly, my husband said that when he was exactly the same age, he went through the same thing. 

But the strange thing is when my son comes out of class at the end of the day and you ask him how his day went, he replies great!

I’ve talked to his teacher and said we’ll monitor the situation for the time being.  I’ll continue to talk to him and monitor when it happens.  I do know that because his class teacher is the deputy head she has to leave class one day a week for other duties and there have been several supply teachers over the last term and wonder if this is contributing to it.

I have to collect my thoughts together because if I need to go in and see the head teacher, she is very defensive where the school is concerned and I want to make sure I know what I want to happen.

In the meantime I would be grateful of any suggestions because it’s a truly horrible feeling walking away from your upset child.  Anyone?      

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