I’m not even really sure what is wrong.
We’ve been starting our days fine. The normal routine of things. He’s been asking to take showers and dry his hair with the hairdryer every morning. He is imitating me. Even going so far as to pretend to use the curling iron.
But when we get to school, he gets very quiet and very sad. He puts on a brave face by looking down and hiding under his hat. His eyes get wide and he fakes a smile. He looks like he is going to erupt into tears at any second.
He asks to go to the bathroom. He cries there.
He can’t tell me why he is sad.
Is it a bully?
Is someone being mean to him?
Is he not feeling well?
Does he not like a teacher he is working with?
Is he just having some separation anxiety?
Is he upset because he is not in control?
Is someone being mean to him?
Is he not feeling well?
Does he not like a teacher he is working with?
Is he just having some separation anxiety?
Is he upset because he is not in control?
I don’t know what the answer is. No one seems to be able to get an answer out of him.
But I can’t keep leaving him like this.
It is breaking my heart.
And yet, once he gets on with his day, he is fine again.
Something is going on. I don’t like it.
I’ve been dropping him off at various activities and schools since he was two. Why now, in first grade is he having such problems?
And he knows it makes me sad. He says he wants to do better. We started a points chart to reinforce him.
I don’t know if it will work. We just need to move past this phase. And hope that is there really is something wrong, he can tell me.