Anxiety or Avoidance?

[Guest guest]

I haven’t posted in a long while as things at school

had seemed to improve and we haven’t had much problems. However, since

the week before Christmas vacation things have turned south.

My son is 7yrs old and is in first grade. He’d been doing

incredibly well at school. We had a couple of incidents in the very beginning

where he would go under his desk when he didn’t want to do something. His

teacher has been incredible and was able to help him and he stopped doing that.

Well in the past couple of weeks it has started up again. However, it only

happens during certain times- during writing.

He has a hard time with writing but he had been doing very well.

Now he has started to crumble up his paper and then crawl under his desk when

he doesn’t want to do the work. When he decides not to do his work he

would usually have to stay in during recess to finish the work. It never takes

him long so he is eventually able to join the other kids outside. But now he

refuses to do it all together. So it gets sent home as homework. He will do it

at home though he cries about how now he has even more homework.

We don’t really know what to do. When asked why he doesn’t

do the work at school he responds with either an I Don’t Know or I Don’t

Like The Work. But it’s never math or science- it’s always writing.

I don’t know if it’s just avoidance tactics or if

something else is going on his little head. He never really seems able to

explain it to us.

We’re to have a meeting with his teacher to talk about

this as it’s becoming a problem. I really have no ideas of what to do

though. Any ideas? Please?

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In No. CA